<p>I agree with most of what you're saying, CMB, but I have to defend the AP program. If I achieve the same scores I did the last 2 years, I'll be looking at about 24 credits. It really adds up in the end. :)</p>
<p>I only took APs so I had an actual chance of getting into college. LOL...but on the real, everyone's told me that they are almost pointless esp. if u plan to use them for credit b/c u will be struggling in the 2nd level courses...so a lot of times it's better to just take the first one and get a good grade.</p>
<p>my school is awesome because it's private and we have our own grading system called DPU, and basically its Distinguished which is 90+, Proficient which is 70-89, and Unsatisfactory which is if you fail or below 70. so i could have gotten a 70 in english (i don't even know, we don't have numbers) and gotten a P, or i could have gotten an 89(nobody knows). also we have no weighting since we have no APs and no ranks since our classes are so small</p>
<p>That is unique. So I guess if you go there you're going for straight D's.</p>
<p>haha yeah i'd come home and be like Dad i got a D on my exam and he'd be like WHAT?! and it would take awhile to come him down so he didn't go into shock</p>
<p>Pretty darn cool.</p>
<p>Hey what year are you in high school. I'm a sophmore and all I get is crap on this forum. You seem pretty cool though, maybe you wouldn't give me crap. Look for my threads and post decent stuff in them if you'd like.</p>
<p>i'm a senior.</p>
<p>I see. Yeah I'm a sophmore I'll admit, but I hang out with primarily juniors and seniors and they don't treat me like the people on this forum.</p>
<p>My father graduated from high school at 16, had the highest entrance exam courses in the history of the school, and was "encouraged" to try the Navy after a semester. He just wasn't ready for college at 16.</p>
<p>Sure, there's a difference between graduating one year early, and graduating two years early. But there's also a social difference between being the same age as your classmates, and being a year younger.</p>
<p>I started college when I was 18. I don't believe I would have had any real issues doing college-level work when I was 17, but I suspect my grades would have been lower. </p>
<p>If you want to go to medical school after college, you'll need high grades in college; your odds of achieving that will improve with a year's maturity.</p>
<p>At the start of my senior year of high school, I had never been on a date. I had never had my heart broken. Neither of these things were true when I started college. High school was a more appropriate setting for both of them.</p>
<p>Now, back to your original question: your sophomore year is certainly not too early to be thinking seriously about college admission. It's a good idea to think about these things while you still have time to do something abou them.</p>
<p>Your recommendations should really come from your high school teachers. Work hard, impress them with your seriousness of purpose, and they'll write you the kind of recommendations that will really carry some weight with admissions committees.</p>
<p>Your grades are good, but your chances at Cornell and its peer institutions will be better if you improve them over the remainder of this year, and next year.</p>
<p>If you wait until your senior year to apply, all of your juniour year grades will be in, and you'll have a chance to apply with a higher GPA than it will be possible to achieve next year at this time, even if you never get another B.</p>
<p>Your SAT scores are also likely to be higher if you take it when you're older, and spend more time preparing for it.</p>
<p>Finally, colleges really like to see that you've developed into leadership roles with your extracurricular activities. (That's also easier to achieve your senior year, by the way.)</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. Is being on student council considered leadership if I'm not the president or vice president. At my school if you get a teacher reccomendation you can take student council as a course and be part of the student government. You can't be president until you're a senior though and it's kind of a popularity contest. I'm new and fairly popular but not that much since I'm new.</p>
<p>percents suck, if they are not either 0% or 100%. what would 99% tell you? tells me that i have a chance at being rejected, and that is enuf to drive me insane. that one out of a hundred, may as well be you as the next kid, the chance is still there, and for it i have stresssssssssed</p>
<p>you are on the path tho, and good luck in two years</p>
<p>Thanks. Yeah my GPA is a 111 weighted I think which means my average grade is a 92.5 but when they average in the grades later it will be like a 95 (113.5 weighted.)</p>
<p>My grades are fine and I still lose sleep just because I wanna go to an ivy league.</p>
<p>My Harvard grandpa even told me ivy leagues don't provide any better education than the good state schools.</p>
<p>You're losing sleep over getting into an Ivy League college and you're a SOPHOMORE? I'm not here to criticize, but you're going to end up burning out if you keep putting that kind of stress on yourself for the next two years.</p>
<p>Forget your weighted GPA, cornell doesn't care about it. They care about how hard your courses are. You'll get points for that, but the GPA they look at is a recalculated, unweighted one. So in a sense they weight, but they make it a whole separate catagory.</p>
<p>So theyll look at 3.85 not 4.4. Well too bad, but I was kinda expecting that. Oh and Hotelie, losing sleep was an exaggeration. I woke up in the middle of the night once like I always naturally do and I found myself calculating my GPA.</p>
<p>Dude, all we are saying is you need to get a life nicely:D</p>
<p>This is waay to early, come back nxt year!</p>
<p>ANd yeah get well soon!</p>
<p>Well if I'm on now I won't have to be next year. And I can focus on my grades since junior year is more important than now. Besides I"m out of school now. When I get back in you can bet I probably won't be on here.</p>
<p>Homeboy, I don't think we were saying "get off here and study more"...it's more like "get off here and have some FUN!!!!!" If you don't know what that is, I can give you some suggestions. :D</p>
<p>I know what it is, and I have a lot of it. I'm not in school right now as I've said many times, and I have a lot of free time and I spend some of it on here.</p>
<p>Hahahah ok...but you said once you're in school you won't be on here which led me to believe you would not waste time on here due to the increase in school work, and therefore would spend this time working on it. However, I apologize for the assumption.</p>
<p>But for reals, why are you so worried about college man????</p>