I’m a freshman and curious to know if I’m laying a good foundation for myself to get into my ideal colleges-USNA or UC Berkeley, major in Nuclear Engineering.
GPA Weighted: 4.36???
GPA Unweighted: 4.0
Classes freshman year: Geometry Honors (on track to take calc),English 9 (honors not offered at my school), Civics honors, Physical Sci. Honors (it’s required), art journaling (fine arts credit), tech survey (so I can take more tech classes, we have a a full fabrication and wood lab), personal finance (required credit), PE
EC: 7-8 years of karate (first degree black belt)
chess club
Football (likely varsity junior and senior year, maybe captain, I’m probably third or fourth best in my class)
Lacrosse (almost definitely varsity)
I’m probably the best writer in the grade, so my essays will be okay hopefully (I was voted best male writer in superlatives :P)
I know I’m coming off as narcissistic but I think it’s all true. Thanks, I’d just like to know if I’m on the right track, I’ll be taking some AP’s in Junior and Senior year, my school doesn’t really let sophomores take them (maybe Environmental Science for sophomores, but literally the only AP class available to sophomores I can think of off the top of my head is AP music theory)
To answer your question, you seem to be doing fine, but where is your foreign language? Top colleges like to see rigorous schedules, and I think a college like UCB wants to see three years of FL. Check the requirements of the colleges you are interested in. If something is listed as recommended, the consider it required, for most students.
Just so you are aware for UCB, Freshman grades are not calculated into the UC GPA. Only 10-11th grades. Any HS designated Honors classes have to be UC approved to get the extra GPA bump in the calculation and only 2 UC approved/AP/IB or DE courses are used from the 10th grade in the capped/weighted UC GPA.
You can check which courses at your school will get the extra honors points here if you are a CA HS student: https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/institution
At the end of Junior year, you can calculate your UC GPA: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
You can input the # of semesters of approved classes that get the extra honors points, but the UC weighted/capped GPA is capped at 8 semesters. It will also calculate out your fully weighted UC GPA with unlimited honors points (UCLA/UCB use the fully weighted but the rest of the UC’s do not).
You are on the right track but as stated by @Lindagraf, you want 3 years of a foreign language. If not in-state CA, you want also a year of a Visual/Performing art course as part of the requirements.
Familiarize yourself with all requirements for all your schools of interest to make sure you have a complete and competitive application when the time comes to apply.
Good luck, keep up the good work and enjoy HS.