Chances with a bad freshman year?

<p>Schools:
GWU
Bates
Lehigh
Bucknell
American
Union
Cornell (ED)
Skidmore
BU
Fordham</p>

<p>About me: White Male from NY
High School: Competitive/Private
School Does not rank
ACT:29</p>

<p>(School only allows 3 AP's per year, none offered freshman year, only 1 in soph)
(School also has no A+/-)</p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Global Honors: B+
Ancient Greek Honors: B
Algebra: B
English Honors: B
Biology: A
Religion: A
Computer Science: A
Fine Arts: A</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
AP Biology: B+
English Honors: A
Global Honors: A
Mandarin Honors: B+
French Honors: A
Religion: A
Geometry: A</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Art History: A
APUSH: A
AP English 3: B+
French Honors: A
Algebra/Trig: A
Religion: A
Chem Honors: B</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Macro
AP Gov
AP English 4
Religion
Physics Honors
Statistics Honors</p>

<p>EC's
Political Science newspaper
World Politics newspaper
Regular school newspaper
Speech and Debate Team (my huge extra curricular, this took 4 hours everyday, it is my essay topic, and i have the national superior distinction from the national forensics league, i was also captain senior year and attended tournaments at harvard, yale, princeton, columbia, upenn, george mason and schools all around new york city weekly and qualified for state championships all 4 years and national championships twice)
Yearbook
Student Government
I also won my schools award for devotion to extracurriculars (six times)</p>

<p>Also planning to major in political science with a minor in international relations or economics</p>

<p>Rec's will be great, one from speech and debate coach who also taught ap english and one from ap art history teacher</p>

<p>i know i had a lot of B's freshman year but i think my strong upward trend will help me</p>

<p>I think Cornell is kind of a reach b/c they seem to put a lot of emphasis on grades but you have a great chance of getting into all the other schools.</p>

<p>There are land grant schools at Cornell that for a NYer are much easier to get into than CAS, the OP would have a shot at those.</p>

<p>I’ve looked at those, but im not too interested in industrial labor relations or ecology…</p>