Hi, I am going to be starting my sophomore year of high school and I am wondering what colleges would accept me at this rate and what I can do to improve.
GPA: unweighted (4.0)
weighted (4.0)
Classes I took:
Geometry (best for our grade)
Science 9 (only option)
English 9 - Honors (only honors class, no weighted gpa)
Spanish 2 (took Spanish 1 in middle school)
Band
Political Science (only social studies class)
Computer Applications (only computer class freshmen could take)
Phy Ed 9
Health
Our school doesn’t offer AP classes for freshmen, but this coming school year I plan on taking APUSH.
In school Extra Curriculars:
Soccer
Varsity Track and Field
Ski Club
Out of school Extra Curriculars:
CCD
Mission Trip
Volunteer Hours
Job
How does this application look to colleges for a freshmen year and what can I do to prove.
Chancing you is completely useless right now. Freshman year is probably the easiest year, and it’s going to get harder. You also have no scores. At this point right now, no college would accept you because you have one year’s worth of high school under your belt.
It’s tough to chance without more information. What exactly are you trying to do? What is your job? What does CCD stand for exactly?
Your primary concern Freshman year should be experimenting - figuring out if you are committed to a certain career path, or if you may enjoy doing something you previously didn’t know about/think you would like. If you are just resumé building, you are actually hurting yourself more than helping, believe it or not. Even if you do get into a good college, if you don’t know what you want to do, or worse, discover you don’t have the passion for it you thought you did, you are probably just accumulating a lot of debt for nothing.
What exactly do you hope to get out of your EC’s? Three sports (counting skiing)? If you don’t want to be an athlete or don’t just really really enjoy them all, you could do much more productive things with your time. If you want to be a scientist, get a lab internship. Politics, there is an election going on right now - get involved.
All in all, I just get the feeling that a freshman doing a chance thread must be more interested in looking good for colleges than what they hope to get out of college. You seem to be doing well academically. Keep doing your best in school, while focusing your free time outside of school more on discovering what you want to do.