Losing Complete Hope for a good college..

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Hello! A little backround information about me
-junior at high school (high school is ranked top 50 in california)
-asian (korean to be exact)
-girl

  • Dad is a USC alumni
    -Uncle is Colombia and Stanford alumni (also does admssions for Colombia)

My grades were so poor and I’m so ashamed of it.
Freshman Year: (first and second semester: respectively)
English 1 Honors- B, A,
World History Honors- B, A,
Geometry- C, C,
Biology Honors- B, B,
Spanish 2- B, A,

Sophomore Year: (first and second semester- respectively)
English 2 Honors- B, C,
Psychology AP- B, A,
Algebra 2- A, A
Chemistry Honors- A, A,
Spanish 3 Honors (first semester)- B
Spanish 3 Regular (second semester-dropped to regular)- A
Speech and Debate- A, A,

Summer going into Junior year
Sociology- A (summer school class for one semester)
My GPA is around a 3.3-3.4 range, and I am so embaressed of it and I feel like I completly lost hope. Next year, I’m currently not in Speech and Debate anymore and I feel like I won’t get into any UC or Cal Poly. What can I do during my junior year to really step up my game? I’m so scared. Please Help it would be much appreciated.

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Your grades are not harvard/stanford averages but I think you can get into some UC schools and probably cal poly. I wouldn’t think that you have a high chance at Berkeley and LA and SD may be a bit Chancy. However, I think you are competitive at SC Merced etc.

To raise your chances (to potentially go to SD or Irvine for example) I would aim for an upward trend, hopefully all A with perhaps a B. Don’t worry too much, you aren’t the top student of the US but you aren’t doing as badly as you may think

3

There is no reason to lose hope for a good college. There are hundreds of good colleges in the United States. Start studying for your standardized tests and continue to do the best you can. Your grades are not bad.

4

Keeping in mind UCs ignore Freshman grades, your grades aren’t horrible right now. That one C, along with the Bs, may prevent you from Berkeley, but everywhere else is still a strong possibility.