Most important things to do
- keep up with course rigor (make sure to complete at least precalculus, all three from biology, chemistry, and physics at any level, take your foreign language to level3 at least, four years of English and social science) and keep getting As. A 4.5 GPA makes UF within reach as well as honors college at FSU and USD, depending on test scores.
- in October all juniors will participate in a giant scholarship competition called the PSAT NMQT. Start practicing now on Khan academy to familiarize yourself with the test. Then practice for the ACT and SAT to decide which one you are best at. Never take a real test without studying and practicing for it - it is not like a class test and requires specific preparation. Sometimes there are free prep classes at your public library or school, look into it. If the test costs are a financial burden there are fee waivers, ask your guidance counsellor.
How should my grades look like this year and how many advanced classes should I take next year?
and what SAT (newer one which is outta 1600) score should I go for? What should strive for?
Grades: As many As as possible.
SAT : you need to practice.
You may also have to take subject tests in May or June so over the year determine which are your two best subjects.
Course rigor : 3-4 APs each of junior and senior year, maximum, with 5 academic classes per year minimum, and chosen in coherence with your purported academic interests.
I disagree with the following:
Take as many AP as you are comfortable with and interest you, but building course rigor is more than taking a certain number of AP classes. APUSH, AP Lang, AP Calc, the AP LAB Sciences, and AP in a Foreign Language will better demonstrate course rigor.
Also, unless the HS limits AP classes, you will find most incoming UF Freshman took more than 3-4 APs in their junior and senior years, the 4.4 average UF weighed GPA bears that out.
@Qasim770 - Looks like you are in good shape with 7 AP/AICE by the end of your junior year. Look to continue to increase your course rigor your senior year.
^That’s very true (I’m the one who made the recommendation, using it as a shorthand for “don’t overload and risk being taken for an AP junkie”) - with 7 AP/AICE classes, OP would be absolutely fine adding only 3 senior year and really focusing on his/her applications.
2/3 classes graded out of 5 + 1/3 graded out of 4.5, assuming mostly A’s, would bear out the 4.4 GPA.
Another option is to be fully dual enrolled.
I agree with @CaucAsianDad. Take as many as you are comfortable with and know you can do well in. I never heard the term “AP junkie”…lol.
Good luck
@CaucAsianDad
Here is the deal I am taking APUSH and Lang and AP Bio but I can’t take AP calc and Foreign language
An “AP Junkie” is an applicant who seems to pile up AP classes without rime nor reason, just for the sheer number of it. The opposite is a student who makes sense as per his or her academic choices: few (total of 6-8) APs/AICE classes that are clearly consistent with the student’s goals, their not eschewing core classes to take any random AP (ie., the student who’ll take APES before Physics regular because their school offers APES but not AP Physics1), some “core” AP’s (AP English Language, an AP Math preferably calculus, APUSH or an AP History, an AP Science or AP Foreign Language) as well as APs that make sense (several APs related to STEM for a future STEM major, several APs related to Humanities&Social Sciences for a future Humanities&Social Science students). As Stanford put it “it’s not a game of who has the most AP’s, wins”.
In Florida, Dual Enrollment is also a popular option and taking “core” classes or “post AP” classes at a CC is another way to show rigor, more so than an extra AP class.
@Qasim770 : if you’re aiming for a STEM or business major and your school doesn’t offer AP Calculus, does a nearby community college offer Calculus 1? That would also work.
that’s not the thing my school does offer AP CAL but I am taking Algebra 2 right now, so I will be taking Pre-cal next year that’s the reason 
I am really not having a problem 4 ap classes and I feel like I will do good hopefully. I am also doing good EC which includes ; HOSA, English Honors society, Science National honors society , Academic games social studies and a scholarship program as well.( I think that should be enough but I will be looking forward for more.
MY MAIN CONCERN IS THE ACT/SAT here only because it really seems like a challenge to get a 1300 on the sat 
right now and I am reallu worried about it as well . I am doing SAT practice on Khan academy but still it really bugs as it seems like the last hurdle between me and a good college.
What matters isn’t quantity of EC’s but how far you pushed yourself through them, what recognition you got for them or what impact you had in your school or community with them.
For the SAT, use Khan Academy.
what should I major in if I am going for med school?
Anything you can be a top student in. Music, Math, English, Philosophy, CS, Foreign Language&Culture are all appreciated once you’ve made the first cut (first cut is science GPAX MCAT X cumulative GPA). Biology or biochemistry are not required and Biology is especially not recommended since there’s a glut of biology majors and very few jobs for them.
My main question was that what types of major can impress the med school officers?
Do they have to be science related?
Apparently they’re really impressed with high level musicians. If you’re not already a high level musician though…
Obviously not by biology majors (too many) but the ability to handle a non science major AND all the premed pre-reqs with A grades is always good. Medical humanities and bioethics are important clusters/minors.
In the end, remember the first cut off doesn’t even include majors. Just GPA, science GPA, and MCAT.
So pick whatever you can be top 10% in.
@MYOS1634
what do you think about ucf, how much easier it would be for me to get into ucf? just wondering
UCF would be a terrible choice because it’s experiencing growth issues, with huge classes and students shuffled to online classes. Advising is thus limited. However a premed needs a lot of support and resources.
IF you get into the Honors College, it MAY be worth considering but typically USF is seen as a better “second tier” public university for premeds.
Start looking at Private universities too: Rollins, Eckerd, Stetson, UMiami, for example - but also further away and likely to provide both sufficient support and financial aid.
Do you qualify for Bright Futures?
Bright futures I don’t think so because it requires you to get a 1390 on the SAT, but I am enrolled in a scholarship program which pays my tuition fees for the first two years of my college. So its like half of the bright futures.
@MYOS1634
What classes are ucf students being shuffle into? Wasn’t aware of this.
Most of the popular pre-reqs and popular gen eds have online versions because there’s not enough space to accomodate everyone in traditional lectures. The rationalization is that many students prefer online classes - which, they do, since the alternative is not being able to take the class (to be fair some students do like online betterbut it is not easy to succeed in them unless one is highly motivated and independent, so more than one per semester wouldn’t be recommended).
This is more pronounced at UCF than “normal” (where normal is the requirement to take one online class per year, all Florida publics have that).
UCF does have a “resource” problem, it’s why US News has it ranked at 171 while USF has moved up several spots to 140. It’s student to faculty ratio is 30 to 1, while at USF it’s 22 to 1.
However, UCF is still stronger in several majors, and getting into the honor’s program helps with the resource issue (better advising, etc.). :-?