<p>Hey, this is my first post but i have been stressing out about High School for the last 2 weeks of my summer, and have been researching colleges, GPA's, EC's feverishly. Then I found this forum, and saw all the good advice being passed around so figured i'd would post here.</p>
<p>I am going to say sorry in advance for the long post, been stressing out, but want to be thorough and get another knowledgeable opinion on my chances.</p>
<p>I just finished sophomore year, and my GPA is not doing so great, unweighted i have around a 2.9 sophomore year, and 3.4 Freshman year, which comes out to a 3.15ish avg for both years. I have been taking mostly honors classes, and never have taken a class below Advanced. Sophomore year i took 3 honors classes and rest advanced, while freshmen year i have taken 2 honors. Junior year I plan on taking 2 AP classes, and a IB Computer Science class.
My Soph. GPA was so low because i took honors chem, and lower than usual grades in some other classes because of the coursework in that chem class, which I really struggled in.</p>
<p>I will be able to pick up my GPA junior year and am committed to doing so. After researching all this stuff on colleges it was kinda a "**** hit the fan" reaction from me. </p>
<p>As far as extracurriculars are concerned...</p>
<p>I am currently fluent in Polish and go to a language school every Saturday. I will be taking a Regency test in the fall, which will offer me college credits and end the school, which i have been taking since i was very young. This summer i will be attending a Language camp in Poland where i will study the language abroad. </p>
<p>I also have alot of volunteering hours, and volunteer at a hospital for 4 hours/week since the beginning of freshman year summer, giving me around 200-350 hours by the end of Junior year.</p>
<p>During Junior year summer i also plan to take Pre-College Computer Science courses at Rutgers or another school near me. </p>
<p>My hobbies are Sailing/Blogging/skiing, which i love but am not sure if i can include them on my college application, because i have not joined any clubs that deal with any of those things. (Except Skiing, which i will hopefully join Junior year, but there are only ever 40 spots open for the whole school, which is why it is really hard to join it as a freshman/sophmore, since Juniors have the best chance of getting in).</p>
<p>My PSAT scores came out as 71/68/72 when i took it ~Sophomore year</p>
<p>I know how my GPA suffers, but i am taking rigorous courses because my family always told me that rigorous courses /w lower grades are better than average courses with fantastic grades.</p>
<p>I would love to go to a good engineering school/more well-rounded school in the east coast/new England area/ (Florida is also a possibility). After researching college board, i am really liking Villanova, but any other college suggestions are welcome too. but because of my GPA and lack of "In-school extracurricular" I feel as if I really effed things up...</p>
<p>I don't know exactly what i want to do when i am out of college, but as of now i am very interested in a Computer Science Major /w an economics/Accounting/finance minor and then getting a Masters in Business Administration</p>
<p>So now I am thinking about joining FBLA or coding club, and hoping on joining Ski club, but i have heard that suddenly joining clubs Junior year of High-school looks bad on the application.</p>
pick it up Junior year and try to enhance your ECs and I think you’re good.</p>