Is Freshman year holding me back?

<p>This is my first thread on the site, I'm an incoming junior.</p>

<p>Freshman year: all honors courses, although I ended up with 2 B's and a C in english (A's in math and science)
Apart from that, I joined one club and did no sports.</p>

<p>Over summer I went to Nicaragua for a week with a non-profit organization to help kids in public schools learn english, got 80 hours</p>

<p>Sophomore year, 3 honors and 3 ap's, got straight A's and all 5's on my tests.
Current gpa by end of sophomore year
Weighted: 4.7. unweighted: 3.64
EC's include:
Varsity lacrosse player,
Mu alpha theta member (I competed but didn't place very high)
Member of italian honor society
Member of american technology society</p>

<p>Over the summer I did 120 hours of community service in brazil, where I worked for this organization which funds social projects such as public schools and elderly homes
Also took two online courses, precal honors and us history honors, got A's on both</p>

<p>About to start Junior year, I'm also secretary of my class
6 ap's, mostly focusing on math and sciences (calc bc, physics B, chem, etc) Planning to join the lacrosse team again, joining Mu alpha, italian and ATI again, might even start a new free-thinkers club (still have to debate it with the activities director).</p>

<p>Is my curriculum so far good enough? Can I still make up for time and effort lost in freshman year if I get a 2200+ on the SAT, high score on the ACT and subject tests? Assuming I also get straight A's and all 5's on my tests, what are the chances?</p>

<p>Additionally I plan to work in brazil again with the same organization, planning to have a good 400-500 hours of community service by the end of senior year. I don't know if I'm good enough in math/science to place on any olympiads. Senior year schedule would be similar to junior except the courses would be one level higher.</p>

<p>Sorry for the long thread</p>

<p>You don’t need to place in any Olympiads, though it wouldn’t hurt to try. Your improvement since freshman year is much more important than the grades you got freshman year. It’s okay. Just keep taking challenging classes and keep doing your best. Do something interesting junior and senior year. Think about your interests, especially those in math and science, and how you might take them a bit farther.</p>

<p>It’s not going to be fatal, especially since they are freshman classes and not in math/science. </p>

<p>Accumulating hours and overseas trips haven’t really helped admissions at the top schools much since the early 90’s. If you can, try to find something that your organization could do better, and work to fix it–either that or gain a formal position of leadership within the organization (and try to do something with it.)</p>