<p>Freshman GPA: 3.5 unweighted, no weights at California school
Sophmore GPA: 3.81 unweighted 4.4 weighted</p>
<p>Extracurricular: Piano (11 years experience), Guitar(5 years), Habitat for Humanity, Spanish Club. </p>
<p>Sophmore year: PreAP and AP's so far (grade): World Geography P/AP (A), Geometry P/AP, Chemistry P/AP(A or A+ depending on final), Computer Programming P/AP (B first semster A second semester), English 2 P/AP (A+ so far), Algebra 2 P/AP (A+ so far, AP Pyschology.</p>
<p>Junior year expected courses: AP US History, PreAP Precalculus, AP Chemistry, AP Anomatical Science, PreAP Spanish 3, AP Spanish 4, AP English 3, AP Music Theory 2 (1 skipped).</p>
<p>Senior year expected courses: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP European History, AP English 4, AP Biology, AP Spanish 5, French 1, AP Economics.</p>
<p>Known reccomendations: Harvard teacher grandfather, Vice principal of elementary school, Johns Hopkins PhD, U of Chicago MD graduate.</p>
<p>Not again. Look up the answers to other posters who were in TENTH GRADE asking for their chances of getting into college.</p>
<p>The abstract is that you're young...GO HAVE FUN, STOP WORRYING ABOUT COLLEGE YOU WILL HAVE TIME LATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Additionally, none of us really know any more than you do, so if you really want a percent chance, go look up some statistics and figure it out yourself...HOWEVER I believe your time would be better spent RELAXING a little bit and having some F-U-N. :D</p>
<p>Dude, you're being treated fine...I didn't tell you to like go away, you're as welcome here as anyone. I'm just telling you that you're seriously going to be sorry when you're 18 years old and you've spent all of your high school years worrying and obsessing over colleges that a)you might not WANT to go to and b)you might not get in to.
None of us can predict your chances...it's pretty apparent that the only thing you can do is take the hardest courses your school offers, do well in them, and stay involved in your school and community...maybe try to work on some leadership.<br>
There really isn't anything you can do to ENSURE admission, so, yeah. It seems kind of senseless to focus so much on something you really don't have any control over. And you really are missing out on a lot...believe it or not.</p>
<p>Sophomores shouldnt be on CC, just on principle. When I was a sophomore, which college I was going to was way down on my list of things I cared about, far behind such things as computer games, fishing, and porn. If you are already worried about getting into cornell, you need to get a life and enjoy high school while you can, because when (if) you get to an elite school you are going to wish you had some fun earlier in your life.</p>
<p>I have a plenty good life and this is what I feel like doing at the moment. Here's a more plausible reason I'm already doing this. It's pretty much like I'm a junior because I have a good chance at graduating early. So I'll be applying to whatever college I choose next year.</p>
<p>Yeah seriously, why graduate early? College is great, but high school isnt bad and for you especially I think you need the extra year to solidify your record so you can get into a place like Cornell (with such a difference between your first and second year). You have only done math up to pre-calc by the end of junior year, which isnt the best for the ivies.</p>
<p>that isn't the case. My school operates with different classes each semester so I would double up on the cores since I've already got the elective requirements. Then I would graduate early without lacking any important advanced courses.</p>
<p>Also, I want to be a physician so it's a long road anyway.</p>
<p>That's kind of irrelevant because I know for a fact that colleges look down on students who have taken only one type of classes--even just cores. We all know they are looking for the "well-rounded" people, not to mention you'd be doing yourself a disservice to cut your education short at a time when you're still exploring and developing your interests. Moreover, you should look into oppurtunities for your senior year, especially if you want to be a physician. I was kind of over high school last year and now I spend most of my time rotating through my local hospital with physicians as my mentors and I've learned SOOO much.</p>
<p>Not to mention...there are SOCIAL things you'd miss out on by graduating early. Even if you're not into the whole high school social scene, you NEED to use high school to build social skills--if only to be successful in your career.</p>
<p>Colleges all say that a student should only graduate early if they have exhausted all courses in high school (which usually includes taking a few college courses). They look down upon these students and look at their applications much more closely. I would be wary about graduating early.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys. It might not even happen anyway, I'll regard what you said though.</p>
<p>I think what has possibly been misunderstood is how I might be graduating early.</p>
<p>My school goes on a semester basis, where we switch courses at the semester like a college. That gives me the opportunity to finish all necessary electives plus a few others (I'm interested in language and intend to go all the way through Spanish 5 and then take French 1). So I would double up like taking PreCal and Calculus AB the same year and English 3-4 same year, that kind of thing. So I would have exhausted all courses pretty much.</p>
<p>Oh and another thing. I have gone around the ER and stuff with doctors I know. How'd you do it, I got to because the husband of my mom's friend was a doctor. Is there a way you can do it at a hospital without connections? Also how are people doing internship and volunteer work at hospitals, who do I talk to?</p>
<p>My advice is don't graduate early for 1, highschool isn't so bad. You'll miss it.</p>
<p>2nd, stop worrying about college, it's ok to have a dream school or 2, but as a sophomore you really shouldn't worry about selecting colleges for another year.</p>
<p>3rd, you obviously have a good chance at any school you choose based on your current/available stats. You should know that from your grades. Forget your weighted GPA, colleges weight HS GPAs by taking into account the number of AP/honors courses you take, not by actually adding to your GPA. But anyway, your GPA is fine. Cornell has no cutoffs for SAT or GPA or anything for that matter. Good luck, and get the hell off of CC for a year bud! enjoy HS w/o worrying about applications a year and a half early!</p>
<p>Sure, it sounds great to get out early, but your maturity level is nowhere near that of a senior's. I think my fellow 18 year olds (and current college students) can vouch that they have changed and experienced A LOT over those final two years of high school. Academically, all of us who were accepted to Cornell could handle college courses sophomore year. But the college social scene and independence? Forget about it.</p>
<p>when i was a sophomore, i had no clue what college i wanted to go to, i didn't even start looking at colleges until second semester of junior year, and im glad i didn't, highschool for the first 2 and half years was great w/o having to worry about which college i like best, and which college i can get in to, just do yourself a favor and forget about college for a whole year and have FUN, relax it will be so much better, you'll see</p>
<p>oh god when i was a sophmore all i wanted to do was go to Boston College because my friend's older brother went there. i did like the school though until i realized we had to take theology, then i was like **** that.</p>
<p>seriously, have some fun, do some extracurriculars and real ones that you will have fun with, not all this community service/academic crap lol. and also why is it necessary to have so many APs, do you want to kill yourself in April of your junior year when you're only 16 and have to take more in your senior year when you just feel like cruising? no offense to all you guys now that are taking them but my school doesn't offer them, we have "advanced" classes that prepare you for the AP test, but i really don't see the point in all of them, just so you can get 1 credit out of like the 128 that you need? </p>
<p>Also texas, why do you need to take AB and BC and 2 Languages in your senior year, do you know how much you will want to kill yourself in your fall trimester?</p>