<p>I am going to be a junior. I attend school in New York. My dream is to go to UC Berkeley (Of course, across the country, to the dismay of my parents). As I haven't even taken the SAT yet, this is more of just "am I on the right track" type of thing. Other universities I am considering wil be at the end. </p>
<p>8th Grade (those that count for high school) - 87 avg</p>
<p>Math A (First two semesters of 3) - 84
Earth Science - 90 </p>
<p>Freshman Year - 95 avg</p>
<p>Math A (Semester 3) - 95
Math B (Semester 1) - 94
Spanish 2 - 97
English - 98
Biology - 95
World History I -93</p>
<p>Sophmore Year - 98</p>
<p>Math B (Semesters 2 and 3) - 96
Spanish 3 - 98
English - 98
Chemistry - 98
AP World History - 99</p>
<p>Courses for Junior Year: </p>
<p>Precalculus
Spanish 4 (college credit course)
AP Language and Compositon
Physics
AP US History </p>
<p>NY Regents Exams:</p>
<p>Math A - 98
Math B - 98
World History - 99
Spanish - 98
Earth Science - 91
Bio - 94
Chemistry - 89</p>
<p>PSAT (if any indication of SAT) - 1980
they say PSAT is usually less, but so I'm shooting for at least a 2050 on SAT. is that good enough? </p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:</p>
<p>All State Violist
Chamber Club
Model Congress
Newspaper Club
Amnesty International
Foreign Language Club
Mathletes</p>
<p>Other mentions:</p>
<p>National honor society
World Language Honor Society
Tri-M honor society
100+ hours community service (from 9th through 10th - next year I plan on increasing it to 250+)
CIT/member of staff at USDAN (famous music camp on LI - search online lol you'll find it right away)
Most Outstanding Student award -9th/10th grade orchestra
section leader all of 10th
male violist - this is actually very rare lol</p>
<p>The universities: </p>
<p>UC Berkeley
SUNY Binghamton - My safe school, but its a good one
SUNY Stonybrook - Same as above, but just to make my parents happy lol b/c they don't want me going across the country
NYU
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>I know the list is crappy, so I encourage any suggestions of other college</p>
<p>Here are my thoughts/explanations:</p>
<p>Eigth grade sucked. I had terrible teachers. You can tell from my math A grade there from 9th and see the difference. Earth Science was a hard course for me though, so it wasnt just the teacher, unlike Math A. </p>
<p>10th grade has been amazing for me. I set myself a goal (98 final average) and I did it. Its helped to balance out the grades from the 8th that count towards high school (which I have a feeling will drastically lower my GPA). As you can see, I improved each year. Junior year I hope to keep that 98 final and same for senior. Of course, i will strive to get a 99 now. </p>
<p>The regents probably are not worth a grain of salt, but its nice to have good grades on there. My math and social studies ones are great, but my sciences if you haven't notice glare out a bit. especially the chem 89, though I consider i a 90, it still instills anger in me towards the one point I could have gotten. </p>
<p>Please be honest. I'm expecting a rude awakening when it comes to the SAT grade I need but that's okay.</p>