<p>I know that with many schools it doesnt matter if you messed up freshman year because they often don't calculate freshman year into admissions. My problem is that I also did poorly sophomore year, but have changed tremendously.</p>
<p>Info:
White California Resident
A Top California Public High School
Don't need financial Aid</p>
<p>Freshman Grades</p>
<p>Basic Art- B C
Health/ General State Requirement (<<CPR stuff)- A C
Integrated Math 1- A B
PE9-A B
English 9- B B
Military History- A B
Pre-Engineering- A C
Spanish 1- A B</p>
<p>Sophomore Grades</p>
<p>Biology- C C
English 10- B C
PE 10- B A
Spanish 2- B B
Culinary- A B
Integrated Math 2- B A
Spanish 3- A A
World History- B B</p>
<p>Junior Grades (the huge upward trend)</p>
<p>Honors Spanish 4- A A
Integrated Math 3- A A
US History- A A
Piano Lab- A A
AP Psychology- B B
Chemistry- A A
English 11- A A
Honors Pre-calculus- B B</p>
<p>(note: out of 16 APs my school offers, AP Psych is the hardest. To prove it, 2/36 kids got A's because there is no curve. In my class, 3 kids are going to Berkeley, 2 are going to UCLA, 1 is going to brown, 4 are going to UC Irvine. Only person to get an A out of those was a girl goin to Cal. Then some random kid in my class got one too. 2/3 of the class had 75% or less, and 1/3 of the class had 69% or less.)</p>
<p>Senior year (not official but likely what i will get)
AP Stat- A A
AP Language- A A
Honors Chem- A A
Honors Japanese 4- A A
Intro to Journalism- A A
AP Japanese- ? ?
AP Gov/regular Econ- A A</p>
<p>(grade during application only show through 1 term of Stat, Chem,Japanese, and Language due to the 4x4 schedule)</p>
<p>By time of application gpa by october (when i start applying to some schools).
9-12- 3.4 uw 3.6w
10-12- 3.5uw 3.8w
Rank- top 30%</p>
<p>Test Scores
ACT- 32
SAT2s- US history- 710 MathIIC- 740</p>
<p>Assume i have great recommendations and amazing essays.</p>
<p>Please chance me for the following (at the bottom i will say any special relations to schools)</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in East Asian studies, and minoring in communications and political science.</p>
<p>McGill University-
University of Chicago EA (top Choice)-
University of Toronto-
University of Michigan-
University of Wisconsin-
University of Washington-
UCSD-
UCB-
UCLA-
Northwestern-
George Washington-
NYU-
Boston U-
Colgate-
Reed College-
Oberlin-
USC-</p>
<p>I don't bother putting safeties because i already have some picked out.</p>
<p>For Chicago, I am going there this friday to do the High School summer program for japanese. I plan on getting one of my reccomendations from her. I think that will impress the school.</p>
<p>My dad's cousin went to Northwestern for his masters...i don't think that counts as legacy though.</p>
<p>My great grandpa was the president of the California board of Regents.
He donated millions to Cal, and my grandparents a large sum too.
last four generations of my dads family went there. My great great grandpa went, great grandpa and his brother went to Cal, my grandma went to Cal (daughter of my great grandpa). She married someone who went to Cal (my grandpa) and had my dad and his brother, and they both went to cal. My grandma's brother went to Cal, and 3 of his children went to Cal (dad's cousins).<br>
I know that my family funded a ton of invention too, like the Cyclotron and other stuff made at Cal. I don;t know how helpful my info is though, cause my brother didnt get in with a 3.5w and a 2050 sat...but it might help me a bit more with my dramatic grade change. I mean people know my family at Cal and all. Yeah, anyway, it does affect admissions a little, even though they say it doesnt (my dad and grandpa have had many conversations with admissions officers and regents leaders and they all said that it is important despite what the school says...just maybe not that important)</p>
<p>Holy crap, im dont with this. Longest post i have ever posted, but i dont want to have to post one of these again so yeah.</p>