Demographics: female, white, grandparents are legal guardians (grandmother did not complete college, grandfather earned GED), lower middle class, Florida resident, public high school with about 1500 students, currently 11th grade (planning to graduate next year normally, just doing this early out of curiosity)
Intended Major: Digital Media
Unweighted GPA: 3.5
Weighted GPA: 4.2
(GPA’s are as of sophomore year, weighted GPA will be much higher since I now take IB classes)
AP Courses/Score:
Human Geography/4
Psychology/5
World History/4
U.S History/TBA
IB Courses (as of this year):
Theory of Knowledge
Biology
French 4
Information Technology in a Global Society
English
Math Studies
our school combines AP U.S history with IB history, so this year it will just be AP and next year IB
PSAT: (from sophomore year, taking SAT in a few months)
Overall: 1160
Reading/Writing: 650
Math: 510
Community Service Hours: 65 (plan to have over 100 by senior year)
Extracurricular:
Key Club (may become vice president senior year)
MASER (Engineering Club)
Japanese Culture Club
School Newspaper
Honor Societies:
NHS
Rho Kappa National Honor Society
French National Honor Society
Science National Honor Society
Essays: Most of my teachers say that writing is my strongest point, so I should be okay.
Girl, I got into a public ivy and I almost dropped out of high school because of my terrible grades and skipping habits. You’ll be fine 
What colleges are you applying to?
Oh wow haha, thank you
I’ll definitely be applying to UCF as my first choice, and if I don’t get in FGCU will be my safe school.
Yeah youre pretty much in! No sweat
Hey there fellow IBer! Stressed yet? I’m glad you’re starting this early, and I think your courses are fine. I’ve been accepted, and I have my stats so that you can compare with your stats:
Major: Hospitality
GPA: My UCF recalculated GPA is a 4.38 (UCF only takes your four core and foreign language into account. All honors classes are weighted .5 points and AP & IB are weighted 1 point)
AP Classes: World History, Environmental Science, Statistics
IB Classes:
Spanish SL (11th & 12th)
History HL (11th & 12th)
English HL (11th & 12th)
Theatre HL (11th & 12th)
Biology SL (11th)
Math Studies SL (11th)
TOK (11th & 12th)
PSAT: 1120
SAT: 1200 (1st) 1230 (2nd)
Math: 610
Reading: 590 & 620
As you can tell, we are pretty similar with PSAT scores. Here is my advice, take the SAT in December!!! Spring semester of junior year will be insane, as you have at least Math Studies to test out off, CAS, a group project, your extended essay and basically the world due in a couple of months. I don’t want you to stress with the SAT on top of that, so I think you would do yourself a huge favor by taking it in December instead of later.
If you have any questions at all about this or IB in general, feel free to PM me!!
My advice - you want your volunteer hours boosted by completion of Junior year - get those 100 hours for Bright Futures. You submit for college apps before your Senior year starts so Jr. year is IT for the most part. Take as many IB, AP classes as you - even for your non-core classes as this will boost your overall GPA. Your Senior year course load needs to show you are still challenging yourself. Re: SAT - do the tests in the practice book in a timed situation. Then study each problem you got wrong and why. Do several practice tests in a timed situation. If you bring up your SAT scores, you will qualify for some $$$. 1300 and above seems to get some $$$.