<p>I'm a freshman, having just started in September (HS freshman). My first quarter grades:</p>
<p>PreAP English 9: B+
Geometry Honors: A
Spanish II: A
World History/Geography Honors: A
Biology Honors: A-</p>
<p>There were some tests/quizzes I could've studied for in English especially and Biology... but for the next 3 quarters, I know to focus. In general though.... decent start to HS? I know it's only a 3.8 unweighted, but I can raise it to like a 3.94 for this year, and with hopefully straight A's/A-'s in AP and honors classes in the next few years, would I be ok GPA wise?</p>
<p>I'm doing some SAT prep programs over the next few summers. My PSAT score was a 172. Decent?</p>
<p>60 CR
55 Math
57 Writing</p>
<p>Basically... any advice for activities to do during the summer? I've done crosscountry as my inschool activity. Any other advice?</p>
<p>also forgot to add that I had 4 family members attend stanford previously</p>
<p>lol quad legacy. first. your schedule is nothing special. second, get some good grades. third, your SAT is easier than PSAT. fourth, you don’t need hooks, you just need a 2300, valedictorian, stuco pres, varsity sports, something moderately special. if you didnt have quad legacy, that would be a reject.</p>
<p>^Ouch…Calm down, he still has three years.
I wouldn’t worry about your grades too much, just try for all A’s the rest of your years in high school. You do not need to be valedictorian or have a 2300 SAT score(although it helps). I would shot for 2100+ at first see how you do. Also, get good grades and work on something that makes you unique…that could be the deciding factor. Best of luck!:)</p>
<p>No you just need 2100+ and then some kind of strong hook. Or multiple smaller hooks. And by hook I mean anything from ethnicity to interesting life story (my hook) to excellent extracurriculars (and by excellent I mean founded a company that made apps for iphone/palm pilot or made an EMT club at your school where you actually buy/rent an ambulance and go around saving people (rofl…someone in my dorm actually did this)). </p>
<p>Just do whatever you like to do extracurricularly…and do it very well. Either that or have awesome hooks you cant control (like race or interesting life story). </p>
<p>that was my eigth grade PSAT. Right now I guess my hooks would be that I’m black (I want to get in on my own merits but… can’t really control this), and that I build and fix computers for people. No ■■■■■, I just went to bed.</p>
<p>But we can’t say anything about your chances based on this. We have no idea what the rest of your grades will be, what your SAT scores will be. You are starting out with better chances, just based on the attributes with which you were born (totally unfair, I know) than probably over 90% of people.
172 is decent at your age, but why didn’t you take the real SAT? It’s a much better predictor and better preparation than the PSAT, and since you were in 8th grade, no college would have ever seen it. </p>
<p>When I was your age I got a 1830 on the SAT. That was in the first year it had writing. Also, I had taken it before, in 6th grade, so I had some experience, but it was a very different test before they added the essay. As a possible indicator of how much you’ll improve, my score now is a 2300. </p>
<p>URM legacies with decent stats and essays and whatnot do sometimes get rejected though. My URM legacy sister (single legacy) got rejected from Cornell. Of course, she totally and completely messed up her application, so that probably had a lot to do with it, as she applied to three schools with about the same selectivity, Cornell, Georgetown, and Northwestern, and was flat out rejected from the two where her application was somehow really really messed up (something about supplements not attaching correctly) and was readily accepted to the other. But, it’s just a cautionary tale.</p>