High School Courses, Grades, and College!!!

Applying to College
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<p>Hi, I am currently a senior in high school. I am getting a 'D' in English AP and considered dropping that class and take regular English second semester. I am also taking another english course to make up my grade for the 'D' i had for English AP.</p>

<p>If i drop English AP, then all my classes will be regular classes. Will i have a lesser chance in being admitted to New York University, Columbia University, Syracuse, University of Rochester, Suny (Oswego, Fredonia, Oneonta, Binghamton), and CUNY (Queens and Brooklyn college)?</p>

<p>I don't consider myself an expert in either English, science, or math, but i tried hard like every one else at my high school in getting a 'A' or a 'B'. I was planning to take AP Government, but some of my friends are stressing that there are loads of notetaking and reading for homework, including biology AP. For english there are lots of reading for homework (from 30 to 60 pages a day), and the english tests i take in class are very hard. </p>

<p>I don't know what to do. Most likely i will drop English AP, and take regular english next semester, but at the same time, i will be retaking first semester english at my nearby community college. What do you guys think? Will i still have a good chance in being admitted to the colleges of my choice if i take all regular classes next semester and retaking 1st semester english?</p>

<p>My current first semester grades (not the final, but will by in 2 weeks) (My GPA in freshman year was a 3.5-3.6, sophmore was a 3.33-3.5, junior was a 2.66-3.1. I took one honors class for freshman and sophomore year and one semester of US History AP and two semester of English Honors for junior.)</p>

<p>English AP 'D'
Regular Economics 'B+'
Pre-Calculus 'C'
Health 'A'
Drama 'A'
Regular Biology 'A'</p>

<p>GPA: 3.00</p>

<p>Extracurricular activities:
volunteer at hospital (3 years), tennis (2 years), drama play (1 year), piano (10 years), music composition (i'm writing a piece and record a CD of my piece and send them to the different colleges i'm applying to), chess and film club(i'm one of the officers of film club)</p>

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<p>Stop posting this multiple times under different headers...
Your chances are very low at the schools indicated, so apply to some schools ranked beyond 100 in the USNWR list.</p>

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<p>you're not going to make it...sorry, but lets be realistic:
you started off freshman year doing well...classes got tougher in sophmore year and your GPA dropped a bit...junior year, you dropped out of AP and still your GPA declined...and senior year, you're getting a D in your only AP??
yeah, you're ECs arnt gonna make up for that...im not sure about SUNY or CUNY but the others on your list are out...your only hope is to salvage senior year grades and transfer after a year or two...
i had a similar condition, i had a 3.5 fresh and soph year (but i took 4 honors fresh year, and 3 honors and an AP soph), junior year it dropped to a 3.2 (two APs, two honors, spanish4)...however, senior year i busted my butt and pulled a 4.21 for the year, 3.61 overall (oh and 5 APs, and comp sci)....i barely got into a top 20 engineering school</p>

<p>so, crank up those senior grades, FIX THAT D, and stop moaning</p>