<p>Hello, I am currently a junior in high school and I have a few questions. First off, UF is obviously a selective school. I am Iranian, but on applications and stuff white is pre-selected. Will the admissions officers see that I'm Iranian before interviews? I'm guessing that Iranian is a good nationality that colleges like for diversity. </p>
<p>Next: in my freshman year, I took honors classes, and my sophomore year, I took AICE classes (cambridge program). Now, I am taking AP classes and I plan the same next year as well. The current classes i am taking are:</p>
<p>-AP Language
-AP Environmental Science
-AP Psychology
-AP US History
-AP Calculus AB and BC (finished AB with Cs! woohoo)
-Hope (required health class)</p>
<p>And I am planning the same kind of rigor next year as well. With all of my classes factored in (ALL transcript class semester grades), I so far have a unweighted GPA of 3.44 and a weighted GPA of 3.88. I am not really content with my GPA, but my junior and senior high school years look incredibly challenging, so will they take that into consideration? I guess what I'm trying to say is, I have friends who have 4.1s etc weighted but with only 2 or 3 AP classes; do I still look better?</p>
<p>As far as involvement out of school, I may begin to volunteer at the library, just restocking shelves. I play tennis for my school, and I will play next year as well (no other sports unless you count 8th grade soccer :) ). For volunteer hours, I have maybe 40 at various places, but this summer I will go to Virginia to shadow my cousins, who are dentists. I will stay all summer, and they will give me as many hours as I request on the form (I will probably ask for 300 haha); will this look very good since I want to study dentistry? I'm practically getting a whole semester of experience before any other students. </p>
<p>And I just received my SAT scores today. I did not study at all for the exam, and received an 1890. I took the ACT, but have not received results yet. I understand that the average SAT score of an accepted UF student is around 2050. Please offer any advice you have; I am really stressing out over this because I feel like I am nowhere near qualified. Thank you!</p>