hey! this is my first time posting. My 9th grade year just finished up and i ended with a 3.3-3.4 unweighted. My classes this year are harder than the classes I will have next year. I am retaking a few classes ( need on opinion on this), but next year i hope to bump my GPA to high 3.7 or low 3.8. I took a practice SAT and did very well. Also I am on varsity tennis, robotics club, student action senate, JV golf, volunteer at red cross, also captain of chess club. My school is top 10 in the state.
Advice is to get much better grades and do really well with some activities that you really care about and ditch the reset. You list 6 activities, realistically how many hours a week can you spend on each of them and do well in, vs. get minimal results?
As for retaking classes, I don’t know. If you can take them without the original class showing up on the transcript or some other designation that you retook the class, that would be best. 9th year grades aren’t scrutinized nearly as much as the other years.
Colleges won’t hold a bad Freshman year against you if you show progressively better grades in subsequent years. Many students “stumble” when moving to High school. It happens. They’re looking for real people - not clones and robots. Do your best - then hope for the best. It’s all you can do. I wouldn’t waste time taking a class over for a better grade - honestly.
SAT scores get you on the radar, no matter what anybody claims. Then they’ll weigh your JR year grades more than SO and FR. Ironically, it can work to your advantage to show great improvement in SO and JR grades. Want to seal the deal? Do some UNIQUE volunteer and leadership stuff. Not resume padding, of course, but something that the other 40,000 applicants won’t have done.
Your high school tennis and golf run different seasons? Is one spring and one fall?