Chance a hopeful Junior?

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<p>Hey, my name is Sarah I'm a current Junior in a new public high school with no reputation. Last year we had our first graduating class and 50% went on to either the local community college or UNC-G, which anyone can get into.</p>

<p>Caucasian Female
North Carolina</p>

<p>UW GPA as of Sophomore Year: 3.85/4.00
W GPA as of Sophomore Year: 4.78
Top 4.7% of my class (15/317) and rising every year</p>

<p>Freshman Course-load (3.71/4.0 -- 4.57/4.85)
Honors Algebra 2 (A)
Honors Chemistry (B)
AP World History (B) 4
Honors English 9 (A)
Honors Biology (A)
Spanish 1 (A)
PE/Health 1 (A)</p>

<p>Sophomore Course-load (4.0/4.0 -- 5.0/5.0)
AP Statistics (A) 4
AP Psychology (A) 5
Honors English 10 (A)
Honors Civics/Econ (A)
Spanish 2 (A)
Dance 1 (A)</p>

<p>Junior Course-load (Should be all A's) (4.0/4.0 -- 5.5/5.5)
AP US History
AP Government
AP English Language
Honors Pre-Calc
Honors Spanish 3
Honors Anatomy/Physiology</p>

<p>Projected Senior Course-load (If all A's 4.0/4.0 -- 5.6/5.6)
AP Calculus AB... possibly BC
AP Literature
AP Human Geography
AP European History
Honors Earth/Environmental
Honors Spanish 4</p>

<p>Extra-Curricular
Engineering Club (9, teacher moved schools and no one would take over, so it was disbanded)
-President, only female member
-90+ hours over the summer working at a local college with mechanical and chemical engineers
-Participated in Siemens competition, topic was biodegradable plastics
-2 hours a week during the school year</p>

<p>Competitive Cheerleading (7-12)
-Captain 2 years
-Won Most Improved, Coaches Award, and Most Valuable (as of right now)
-Have been on 1 or 2 teams a year, winning several regional, state, and national titles.
5 hours a week not including outside exercise and conditioning, and 7 competitions a year)</p>

<p>Special Education Cheerleading Team (10-12)
-Help a team for girls with a variety of mental and physical disabilities. 2 hours a week, plus weekends where we exhibition at local competitions.</p>

<p>Beta Club (10-12)
-Member, hopefully becoming an officer soon</p>

<p>National Honor Society (Hopefully 11-12)</p>

<p>Habitat for Humanity Club Member
-1 hour a week not including work days and other volunteering activities</p>

<p>-I'm also going to begin tutoring, my peers will be after school and for free while children it will most likely be a paid position. I babysit a little boy with a learning disability and will probably tutor him as well.</p>

<p>Thinking about applying to
UNC-Chapel Hill
Wake Forest
Duke University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Northwestern University
Any others you think I should look for?</p>

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<p>It’s impossible to assess without any test scores.
You’re doing fine so far.
The one thing that does concern me is that I see both Bio and Chem as a freshman, no natural science as a sophomore, and what might be regarded as “softer” sciences in junior and senior years. I would recommend taking physics, either this year or next. Top schools generally expect to see both calc and physics before graduation.</p>

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<p>Okay, thank you! Unfortunately my school requires biology, chemistry, and environmental, but I’ll look into dropping AP Human and going into either Honors or AP Physics. Science is not my strong point but thank you for the notice about the sciences :)</p>