<p>I messed up my entire life just by taking algebra1 when I was in 7th grade. I used to be an extremely good student before then, getting all A's..but 7th grade slowed me down. I started to get C's on those tests in alg1 and all my friends did better than me, which made me feel inferior. i also was not involved in any sports so i felt useless and insecure. because of that, i started to do poorly in my other classes as well and my work ethic downed down by a lot. i always told myself "oh, i'll do better next year, this year isnt as important". well, come freshman year when everything started to count, i literally failed algebra2 and got B averages in my other classes, avereraging with an 84% gpa (around 3.0). sophomore year comes around and i have THE MOST drama that year. i couldn't focus on my studies do to friendship, family, boy etc problems. i literally just gave up and didn't care how i did in school and i failed precalc/trig..my cumulative gpa by the end of the year was an 83% (3.0 as well, i think). also in those years i took all academic classes besides two honors freshman year and one sophomore year. now, this doesn't seem TOO bad but wait until you here the school i want to get into. the university of pennsylvania. their lowest gpa is around a 3.75. this year, i'm a junior. and i got all A's in my classes and a B in math. i'm in 3 honors this year. the first semester just ended, and i have a cumulative gpa of 85%..for the next two marking periods (next semester) i plan to kick *** and try to get it up as high as i can. but that won't do anything, will it? plus admissions are jan1, which means even my first marking period grades for senior year won't count toward my gpa. i am involved in many clubs, volunteer, part of my youth group, have leadership positions etc and i just took my SATs for the first time but have not gotten my score back. i plan to take the ACTs and SAT subject tests soon. my senior courses include 3 AP's and two honors.
if i could go back to freshman year, i would start all over if i knew i wanted to get into an ivy league. now it just seems impossible. i know i COULD have done it..i just gave up. idk what to do..please help.</p>
<p>can someone…ANYONE who reads this please actually reply</p>
<p>Your best hope is to ditch all conventional ECs and concentrate on a real unique NTA (“non-teen activity”), such as raising crickets for Chinese good luck ceremonies or something, anything, that will make an Adcom go, “whoa!” and totally forget about the somewhat subpar transcript. The best way to make this happen is to ask for a volunteer position after school with something that interests you and see where it takes you (count on the fact that one thing will lead to another) and then write about that thing for your college essays. You will CRUSH all the 2400’s applicant if you are simply and truly interesting.</p>
<p>awh thanks(: yes i’ll try over the summer to look into some random things to do</p>
<p>hey i just wanna know what my chances are, I wanna apply for the BS in economics programme to Wharton undergrad.
I’m an international student from India.Till 10th grade I was doing an indian board (ICSE) and scored a 95.4% ,always came 2 or 3rd in my class out of 45 students. currently I’m doing the IB international baccalaureate programme with the following subjects
Economics HL
Maths HL
Chemistry HL
English HL
Biology SL
Hindi SL
I’m doing very well in my school (mostly 7’s) but I don’t have a lot of extra curriculurs only guitar(grade 3) and elocution and speech and drama (grade 5) because we don’t have clubs and things like that in Indian schools
my SAT 1 score was 2140 (720 math/740CR/680writing) I’m going to retake it in October and my SAT 2 scores are 790 in chemistry and 770 in math level 2.
i will be applying to Wharton for early decision without financial aid. what chances do u think i have?
the schools im thinking of are NYU,UCberkely,cornell and wharton in addition to UK universities.</p>