<p><em>I Will Chance Back</em>
Objective:
State: Michigan
Freshmen Year GPA: 2.7
Sophomore Year GPA: 3.5
Junior Year GPA: 3.975 (3.95 first semester, 4.00 second semester).
Community College GPA: 4.0
Cumulative GPA: 3.6~
White male
33 ACT
Planned Major: Computer Science or Economics</p>
<p>Freshmen Course List: All remedial classes and Pre Algebra
Sophomore Course List: 1 Honors class
Sophomore Summer Course List: Spanish 2 & Geometry
Junior Course List: 8 classes in total (4 ap, 2 dual enrollement, and 2 normal).
Junior Summer Course List: Precalc, Spanish 3, and World History.
Projected Senior Course List: AP Calc AB, APUSH, AP English Lit, Honors Physics, AP Gov, International Marketing, C++ Programming at community college).</p>
<p>Subjective: </p>
<p>Work Experience:
ComputaCure(Founder) - Started summer of my sophomore year, Brick and Mortar computer repair company, revenue exceeding $100,000 annually. Was in local news paper and news station.
AppsoluteSocial(Founder) - Social Media Startup company, application design/facebook page management, starting it this summer.</p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
ComputerSoup - founder, just started this. We build computers for individuals who would otherwise not be able to afford them. Will be in newspaper and news station in subsequent months. </p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
FIRST Robotics - Founder & President of our schools club.
National Economics Challenge Club - Founder & President of our schools club.
DECA - Treasurer (Was a state finalist).
Finance - I trade stocks and options frequently (over 30 trades a quarter). </p>
<p>My top choices:
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Wharton
Harvard
Cornell
University of Michigan<em>instate</em>
University of Chicago
Princeton
MIT
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Sorry to say, but I don’t think you will get into those colleges. They are the top schools in the nation, and you’ve taken remedial classes and have a pretty low GPA. Maybe you should look at a few other schools.</p>
<p>Even though your company seems good, it can’t really compensate for a low gpa as gpa/ course rigor is #1.</p>
<p>^Thanks for your reply, however, don’t you think that colleges will consider the huge upward trend? Additionally, I know some schools, such as Princeton, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, don’t even consider freshman grades. Would that impact my chances at the aforementioned universities?</p>
<p>Well, my counselor said that I will be marked as most rigorous course load, since I’ve taken the hardest course load Junior and will be Senior year, and I’m taking 200 level courses in CS currently.</p>
<p>Oh, and additionally, if it’s really too unrealistic for me to have a shot at these universities, is it worth it for me to finish high school school? I could just get an associates degree at my community college by the end of next year, and apply as a transfer applicant?</p>
<p>Yeah but sometimes it’s better to get all As in regular classes than to get worse grades but have “the most rigorous course load” as you said. Of course upward trend can be considered, but if these schools have two similar kids and one had an upward trend while the other did well all along, what do you think looks better?</p>
<p>I agree, I guess being apathetic during my freshman year really will screw me over. Would you reccomend going for an associates degree and then transferring? I could graduate from my community college in the class of 2012.</p>
<p>But if you are a junior now, why not just go through your last year so you can say “I graduated high school”?</p>
<p>I actually think you have a shot. Your ECs are spectacular, and the fact that you were able to build your grades up so much and be such a better student in so little times is insanely impressive. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I would still graduate high school, but I would graduate from my community college at the same time; ergo, I could apply as a transfer applicant.</p>
<p>My advice is to study insanely hard for the SAT and get over a 2200. That’ll show that you’re able to keep up with academic rigor now. INSANE app without your grades from frosh and soph year. absolutely crazy. Keep up the good work!!</p>
<p>Do whatever you want to do. Don’t let strangers on a website make such a huge decision in your life.</p>
<p>^ Thank you!! I have been! I’ve literally spent this whole last year working. I don’t have a social life, however, it’s worth it in the long run, right?</p>
<p>Nah, aim way higher than that. Any particular reason for the GPA frosh year?</p>
<p>@born2dance94 Well, I want to go into finance, or start an internet company, and I think having an excellent education will allow me to acheive that. My main goal, in the short run, is to just get into an apt college, and now I’m rather lost… I was fairly sure I could get into U of M since my grandfather went, i’m in-state, and many students from my school get in when their academic records are weaker than mine.</p>
<p>I was extremely apathethic towards education prior to high school, I mean… I was in pre algebra my freshman year, haha. I was an idiot, but I finally realized if I’m going to acheive what I wanted, something needs to change.</p>
<p>That’s what I figured 
I’d apply to Wharton ED if I were you! It’s not my decision, it’s yours, but consider it! And I appreciate the Jersey Shore reference.</p>
<p>Yeah, wharton is definitely my second choice. The only school I prefer more is Stanford. There’s an ample amount of venture capital firms, great econ & cs degrees, and the California weather!</p>
<p>CA weather= LIFE. Just saying. But I think 60% of the people who are accepted are from CA! However, your entrepreneur skills are really really important for a place in Silicon Valley. I’m pretty sure they’d prefer you over someone with perfect grades and pretty boring club memberships their whole lives. You’re pretty exceptional. It depends on whether or not they’d take a chance on you, I think.</p>