<p>Hi, so a bit of back round information first. I am a U.S. citizen but I was raised in Greece up until 3 years ago, when I came to the U.S. to begin high school in freshman year. I am bilingual and can speak both English ad Greek perfectly (no accent or lack or difficulty to understand either language). During my freshman year I went to a high school that was really bad, and then switched to a much larger, and better school when I was a sophmore. </p>
<p>Before I get to my questions here's my grades and stuff:</p>
<p>Freshman year: All classes honors (except for electives, spanish 1, algebra 1) </p>
<p>Sophmore year: honors bio and humanities (english+ history combined), regular geometry (my old school didn't have honors math courses so I thought this one also didn't, </p>
<p>Junior year: AP US History and AP Psych (gonna take both AP tests), honors chemistry, algebra 2/trig, english and regular spanish 3)</p>
<p>Senior Year I'm taking: AP physics, AP Economics, Honors english, honors spanish 4, honors pre-calc, forensic science, other electives</p>
<p>Overall GPA so far: 4.0 </p>
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<li>Took an SAT completely unprepared (I didn't even know it was 10 sections) got an 1860 (690 writting which I thought would be my weakest, 580 math which I thought would be my strongest, and 630 reading)
I will re-take it in May and have been doing practice tests in which I have been doing better (especially in Math as I am getting quicker which is my problem with Math as I like to double check everything)</li>
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<p>EC's are bad...
I was in the play at my old school
I am in reading olympics
I am in astronomy club (i want to major in astrophysics)
I have had summer jobs over both summers (and will have another this summer)</p>
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<li>I'll admit I am lazy but also shy. I barely have any friends and thus going to clubs is hard...</li>
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<p>Misc.
I have been suspended 3 times for lateness, and I obviously have a problem with being late (I'm late for less than 1 minute usually btw so it's kind of BS that I've been suspended for it)</p>
<p>So now with all the info here are my questions:</p>
<p>1) Should I try to take pre-calc over the summer? I feel I am at a disadvantage to everyone else who is a year ahead of me in math as they took algebra 1 in middle school and want to take AP Calculus next year.</p>
<p>2) What are my chances of getting into colleges like Penn State University Park, Boston University, UPenn, Princeton (i assume no chance at all for ivy leagues), Vilanova, Columbia University, John Hopkins University, other good Astrophycis/ Physics colleges you could reccomend?</p>
<p>3) Will it seem weird if I do not take Spanish 4 senior year after having a 98 average in Spanish 3 Junior year? I find Spanish to be a waste of time as I am not learning how to speak Spanish at all, I just know how to get an A in a Spanish class+ there is this teacher that hates me than teaches Spanish 4...</p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>