@Fishnlines29 Also this, from the P web page:
%applicants by GPA range
Below 3.5: 2.3% accepted
(And obviously, the lower the dip under 3.5, the slimmer.)
What post 41 shows, smack in front of us, is that 88% of kids at P are going to be tippy top performers, ready for the higher level classes and expectations. You’ll be sitting next to kids who did knock themselves out in hs, did learn at that top level, and have already been using that knowledge you have yet to master. In engineering, they’ll have multiple top math and sci classes behind them, many will have taken it further, with college level math/sci behind them (beyond AP.) Plus the relevant experiences outside the classroom.
Tippy top adcoms don’t choose based on one’s “hopes” or promises, nor, “I want to.” You have to be ready to hit the ground running. They have to see it, in front of them, today.
OP has much to learn about how this works. Being able to face this and process it would be a mature step.