High UW GPA despite 2 Cs-am I done?

Applying to College
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Hey everyone, So I’m a junior in high school and I’m kind of scared. This past semester I got all As except for a C+ in AP Calc AB and and AP Chem. My unweighted GPA will still be relatively high if I get straight As next semester(3.88). I’m just wondering, will colleges look down on my Cs and not consider me or will they look at my statistics and see these two Cs as outliers? Here are my stats for reference:

GPA(UW):3.88(potentially)
GPA(W):5.24(my school has a weird weighting scale)
Class Rank: 17/989
ACT:36

AP exams: Psych-5
US History-5
Statistics-4
Chem-4 or 5(our class is really difficult)
Calc AB-4 or 5
Micro-5
Macro-5
Lang and Comp-5
European History-5

If I get 4s or 5s on all my AP exams this year, I will be a National Scholar before my senior year, I’m not sure how beneficial that is to me.

ECs: Engineering Club:Founder and Vice President(120 members)
Model United Nations:President and Organizer of 200 person conference
Science National Honor Society-Chemistry Tutoring Chair(Ironically enough lol)
Amnesty International:President
Speech and Debate: Community/Outreach Officer and Event Leader

Special Awards: National Merit Commended/possible SF
AP National Scholar
State Finalist in Speech and Debate(top 6 out of 300)

In terms of my course rigor, in addition to the 6 APs I’m taking this year, I’m taking 3 classes at a local community college so my rigor is very very intense.

I’m just really worried if the Cs will ruin my chances at my dream schools considering the rest of my application. The schools I’d like to go to are: University of Michigan(ideally)
Purdue
Georgia Tech
Vanderbilt
Ohio State
Thanks a lot guys.

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These C’s shouldn’t ruin your chances at those schools as long an you get back on track.

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Yes, those schools won’t automatically turn you down for two first-semester grades.

You could ask your counselor if the transcript sent to colleges includes just year-end grades, or also has semester (or quarter) grades.

If they do go on the transcript, there’s nothing to do about it now, other than making sure you get your year-end grades up to at least a B, or hopefully B+.

Just a thought: schools do like to see rigor, but they don’t necessarily need to see as much as you have. Study what you want, but don’t think you have to take every single AP or college course possible for schools to consider you.