Hi! I am currently a sophomore and I was wondering if my classes for the next two years are good enough and what your opinions on them are. Also, I took all honors classes my freshman and sophomore year and have a GPA of around 3.88 W. Will I be able to improve it based on the classes I am going to take?
Junior year:
APUSH
AP Lang
AP calc ab
APES
physics honors
french 4 honors
genetics
investing(graduation requirement)
senior year:
AP Euro
AP lit
AP stat
AP bio
AP french
AP computer science a
also, my EC are
-Operation Smile
-Students helping Honduras
-Cheerleading
-International Alliance
-volunteer for local nonprofit (over 55 in past year)
-Student Leadership/peer leadership
-Model Congress
-STEM academy
What are you looking to do? It seems odd to jump from AP Calc AB to AP Stat unless your high school doesn’t offer BC.
What’s your UW and where are you going to apply?
I think it looks plenty challenging and definitely very interesting.
(btw I’m just a sophomore too, so yeah)
I’m not completely sure what I want to study, but something related to the sciences. My school offers BC but I would rather take stat because math isn’t my strongest subject. I’m not quite sure of my UW GPA but probably around a 3.4. Some of my top choices are the University of Virgina and William & Mary. I also just finished my first SAT practice test. I took it without studying at all and got a 1300. Is that good? Thanks!
If you do something related to the sciences, you’ll probably need both Calc II and intro stats anyway. Just be sure to review calculus before your freshman year at college if you take AP Stats senior year, as stats isn’t at all related to calculus.
I can’t comment on your college choice or GPA (looks pretty good to me, are you instate for University of Virginia?) as I’m just a HS sophomore. Note that Virginia suggests 5 units of math in high school (for whatever reason).
The CDS suggest that your practice SAT score would be a bit below average for both universities, and your GPA for William and Mary is in the bottom 3% of enrolled freshman at both universities.
I’d imagine you could pull your SAT up with study. I don’t do so great on practice tests but I have a 1980 SAT (old SAT) and a 1450 SAT (new SAT), the first with extensive study and the second without.
You’ll want to be fairly good at math for STEM fields. Also - to me your schedule looks good, but if you really want to get into those two universities, you might need to pull your GPA up (even 3.7 would be in the bottom 10% for both colleges). Of course consider safeties…
How is your time management?