I am going to be a senior next year with a weighted GPA of around 3.26 and unweighted GPA of around 2.52. My school also did GPA kind of strangely since my first two years there we had a 7 point scale and my last two year will be on the 10 point scale. I’ve also taken 4 AP’s and 8 honors courses when I graduate it will be 4 and 11. I have a 20 on my ACT and am retaking it soon because I know I can score higher. When I graduate my GPA should be around 3.4 Weighted while my unweighted would be around a 2.72.the AP courses I have taken are AP human geo, AP world history, apush, and AP psych. My honors courses are all honors English 1-4, honors chem,earth and environmental,biology math 2, and civics and economics the rest are electives. I am also 25% NA im not sure how much that will help. I am also wanting to be a pharmacist so my major would be in pharmacy due to this most of my electives have been health courses such as health sciences and bio-medical technology. Also two summers ago I volunteered at two pharmacies four times a week for four hours or eight hours a day total.
Any advice is appreciated.
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Try to get your act to 23-24. You’ll need to prepare, perhaps with a company then with peep books.
You shouldn’t take AP classes if you get C’s in them. Colleges aren’t impressed with AP classes if you get C 's in them. Honors classes with B or above will serve you better, because right now you really need to increase that GPA.
What’s your schedule this year, with final grade?
What’s your schedule next year?
There are a couple of universities that are strong prospects for B students who want to go into Health sciences, but you need to being that GPA up.
( Assuming you bring your grades up and increase your act, here are possibilities for you -reach : Juniata, Hiram; match : Bradley, Lincoln Memorial, Capital Ohio, Gannon.)
Ukentucky isn’t happening - look into Wku perhaps (probably a reach though).
High Point is known as a school for rich kids who didn’t do anything in high school, is that who you are?
Wingate is a reach, only possible if you bring that uw GPA up and score 22+.
Campbell is a big reach with an average GPA of 3.4 and an average sat of 1050or so ie., act 23.
My classes this year are Spanish 2 finished with a B Apush finished with a C AP Psych finished With a C English 3 hns finished with an A and health Science 2 finished with an A. Next year I will be taking English 4 hns, afm,Pharmacy tech hnrs,Nursing fundamentals hns, bio med tech 2
Ok: your GPA is lowered by the AP classes, but you do well in Honors classes.
Your schedule next year doesn’t work fo 4-year colleges though.
You need to take:
Spanish 3 (or 3H)
English 4H
Physics (regular)
Math (I don’t see Algebra 2, so if you don’t have it, take it; if you do, try precalculus or statistics)
=> This will make your curriculum rigor stronger. It’ll help you get into colleges. You could add a social science Honors to have overall rigor.
Then only add a couple electives that relate to Health Tech. Pharmacy Tech would make the most sense. For Pharmacy you don’t need all these electives, you need a strong background in biology and chemistry, plus classes in English, Physics, and Math + speaking Spanish will be appreciated.