Can someone tell me what I should plan for my junior and senior years?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Alright, so I'm a sophomore at a SoCal public school, which sends usually the top 10% to top schools (Berkeley, UCLA, top 3% to Ivy Leagues)</p>

<p>In my freshman year, I had all A's</p>

<p>Honors English 9- A+/A+
Honors Bio- A/A+
Honors ALG2/Trig- A-/A
Health/Life Skills- A+/A+
Honors Spanish (yeah yeah, it's Spanish, i know)- A+/A+
P.E.- A/A</p>

<p>In my class, I was I believe 10th out of nearly 900-ish, which is top 1% I guess.</p>

<p>However, I am not doing as good this semester (sophomore); [Finals are finishing up]
Honors English 10- B
Honors Spanish 2- A+
AP World- B-
PE- A
Honors Chemistry- A+
Math Analysis/CalcA- B-</p>

<p>With my freshman year being a 4 unweighted, yet my sophomore year being 3.5 UW (3.83W), what should I got for my next semester and two years? </p>

<p>EC- Volunteering at the Democratic HQ in Van Nuys, Cali.
Worked polling, signs, door-to-door, calling, etc.
- Key Club (first year)
- Intern at a Kaiser Permanente
- MSA officer
Need to try harder, in my opinion.
As for teams and such, I am on my high school's debate team, with reasonable success at the USC, Stanford, Pepperdine, Cal State Long Beach, CSU Fullerton, and Berkeley tournaments.</p>

<p>So what should i do to get my GPA up and have a good chance to get into Berkeley, UCSD (as my preferred schools)?</p>

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<p>You should stop caring about earning grades, and start learning things. Grades are a reflection on what you've learned (most of the time); if you know what you're doing, then good grades should follow.</p>

<p>Unless, of course, your teachers suck. Then you take matters into your own hands, and self-study for AP exams. Grades are still a necessary evil.</p>

<p>In other words: study a lot. To the point where you know useless extraneous information. You should be able to leave testing rooms thinking you wasted your time studying.</p>

<p>Edit: But don't kill yourself over it. You don't want look back on high school and realize that you really did in fact waste your time studying too much.</p>