<p>Thank you for reading this. I really appreciate the feed back! </p>
<p>I regret to say i didn't give it my 100 percent in high school, i ended up with a 3.4 gpa average. Not bad, but really not my honest best.</p>
<p>now i go to community college, I am going to complete 40 units in a one year already! And i believe i will have around a 3.7 gpa this year (I have a dumb C in a music class i took when i was 14, i didn't even know about it, till it was to late.)</p>
<p>I feel i can confidently receive around a 3.6 to 3.8 gpa after 2 years of college. Will being in a sport (we have one league and going to state finals this week!) help me get that extra push to get into high end colleges?! my goals is to major in biomedical engineering in cornell, usc, stanford... I am taking the necessary classes as well, calculus and physics! </p>
<p>Is sports worth it? i will admit i am not good enough (tall or big enough) to make it to these colleges through sports alone. </p>
<p>If you have a sport you enjoy, and it fits your schedule, go for it. But do this for yourself, not simply to try to beef up your transfer applications.</p>
<p>Focus on the grades. I don’t know much about collegiate sports but in division 1 schools there may be rules about transfer students waiting a year…by then you’ll be a senior and not really worth developing. They will be much happier to see the highest possible GPA. If there’s any sense that your EC is dragging down your study time–drop it. They will expect you to carry the highest GPA possible once you enroll and may not believe that a 3.6 in CC translates to a 3.6 at Stanford. I would imagine that water polo at those schools is highly competitive too. Keep aiming for these schools but also start investigating less status-y schools that have a solid program in your major. A BS in bio-medical engineering is nice but you may need to be thinking about grad schools if you want to really make this a career. Start researching less famous, smaller schools that will give your application a thorough going-over. Your goal should be to do as well as possible in CC, graduate with honors from a university and be positioned to apply to grad schools. Sometimes being a big fish in a small pond, pays off.</p>