<p>Nevermind then. Didn’t know u could have such a comeback. that’s great news for the op!</p>
<p>Awesome news chris, I’m definitely going to work my ass off. I take it you go to Wharton, right?</p>
<p>I went to a top prep school where 33% of kids ended up in an ivy or equivalent (stanford, MIT, etc) and no one was allowed to take APs until junior year, so if that’s the case for you the lack of APs sophomore year won’t make a difference. Work hard and bring up that GPA, test well, write good essays, you still have a chance. Maybe not a big one, but it’s there.</p>
<p>Would doing 1 or 2 self study aps be a good idea during my sophomore year?</p>
<p>ginroth, if you want to take APs and self study, go ahead…but if your school is a top school then it’s probably unnecessary. I took…AP calc, ap chem, and submitted an ap art portfolio. I didnt even put the ap chem on my application because I only got a 3 (my school doesn’t really teach for the APs, and I didn’t have time to study for the AP because I had so much other work).
aaand I got into Wharton. Because colleges know my school and that the classes I took are “college freshman equivalent or above” --and I didn’t spend any time self studying for ap english or us history or anything like that.</p>
<p>Bump for more opinions on self studying APs</p>
<p>If you can pull off an extremely rigorous schedule with good grades from now on, I think you’d have a shot. Wharton is harder than whatever you’ll be doing in high school, and so an admissions committee isn’t going to admit someone who can’t get a strong high school GPA, because it means they’d just drown at Wharton.</p>
<p>I dont think you need to self-study APs if no one else is really taking any APs this year from your school either.</p>
<p>are those 45 kids on a matriculation list or naviance? with that many kids going to ivy seems like sports to me</p>
<p>edit: i agree with necro, if ur school is that good anyway a 3.0 isnt gonna be top 10% and makes it almost impossible due to having no honors courses next year</p>
<p>“just finished my first year of high school”</p>
<p>relax and step your game up. mediocre freshman grades aren’t the end of the world in terms of your admission chances. learn from your mistakes and then make an improvement.</p>