I have kids who graduated from uber competitive colleges and they did not have the Freshman GPA your kid has.
Happy now?
None of my kids were 4.0 type perfect students. One refused to move down from Honors to regular in a subject that was clearly difficult- said he’d learn more being with the more motivated kids even if it meant he got C’s and not A’s. We never wanted them to be perfect students- just to learn as much as they could and take advantage of opportunities as they came up.
They continued that path in college.
The kids in their HS’s with the perfect GPA’s were typically not the kids who ended up at HYP. They went to fine colleges- but not the uber competitive ones. Having perfect grades won’t get you into an ivy league college. Having non-perfect grades won’t keep you out.
If your son is this competitive (“winning streak”? Really?) you can hep him refocus on what he’s learning and pay less attention to the grades. There are a lot of colleges that are thrilled to get the high stats kids (Vanderbilt, Emory, Davidson) and aren’t going to care about “the rest of the package”. But Harvard and Yale don’t have to sweat one more or one less AP on a kid’s transcript, or worry about the poet who got a C in physics- they get to pick and choose exactly what they are looking for. If your son mistakenly believes that being “on top” will let him waltz into the college of his choice- he’d better be aiming for the colleges that really do sort by stats.