Hi,
This past semester, my sophomore year, I delivered poor grades. I was wondering if I still had a shot at the colleges I want to go to. Really looking to turn things around my Junior Year.
benedictine university
university of illinois in chicago
depaul university
loyola university
illinois institute of technology
Reach schools:
northwestern
Background:
Mexican Female
Illinois school, 1,500 students
Basketball and Soccer (JV)
future healthcare professionals club
science olympiad club (made regionals)
national honors society for spanish
SAT/ACT
Took first PSAT this year w/o any preparation whatsoever (1150 and aiming to get a 1300 next year to qualify for the national hispanic merit scholar)
took practice ACT and got a 27 (definitely trying to get a higher score)
Taking Kaplan ACT/SAT workshops this summer
Freshman Year
Spanish 2 honors: A/B
Intro to business honors: A/A
English 1: A/B+
Geophysics: B/A
Algebra 1: A/A
World history honors: B+/A
Athletic PE: A/A
Weighted GPA: 3.97
Unweighted GPA: 3.72
Sophomore Year:
AP European history: B+/B+
Algebra 2: B/C+
English 2: A+/A
Chemistry honors: A/C
Spanish 3 honors: A/A
Weighted GPA: 3.91
Unweighted GPA:
I will also be going geometry honors over the summer since i did skip it this year to get ahead.
Courses I plan on taking Junior Year
AP Biology
Anatomy and Physiology
AP U.S. History
Pre-Calculus
AP Lang
AP spanish
french 1 honors
Really looking to step it up Junior Year. I fell into a deep hole and was struggling with my mental health and let it get the best of me and my grades. I’m just wondering whether or not I still have a shot at the aforementioned colleges.
Also not sure what exactly i want to go into in the future, maybe pre med or pre law. I’m leaning more towards pre law because of how much my math and science classes have traumatized me, and i was wondering if BA/JD programs were worthwhile. Depaul and IIT have a great BA/JD program and i was wondering how difficult it would be do get in.