I’m an incoming junior and I’m scared to see my GPA after dealing with the most challenging year of my entire high school experience; soft more year :(. My grades we’re somewhat decent my freshman year ( 2 B’s from both semester’s of PAP Biology, and 1 B from 1 semester of PAP World Geo ;every other class was PAP had an A average.) I was also involved in Basketball, Theater Arts, Debate, and several different clubs and volunteer work. My Soft more year has been the complete downfall of my GPA by 2 of my PAP classes averaging out to be B’s my first semester and 4 (Yes, I said 4) of my classes my second semester resulting in B’s ( 1 AP, 3 PAP) one of which was on the verge of becoming a C! Not to mention, I have given up basketball soft more year and am going to give up theater junior year but I will be focusing a lot more on debate, plan on joining a lot more clubs and doing more charity work, plus I joined the track team soft more year to try earning a scholarship through it. I’m still unsure what extra class I should pursue junior year to replace theater arts and my schedule already contains 3 AP classes (a total of 5 AP classes with soft more year combined, every other class PAP.) My goal in life right now is to attend an ivy league school and I’m finding the chances to be slimmer and slimmer. Can someone please give me some guidance on what I should do to improve my GPA to at least a 3.75 (don’t tell me its impossible please, I will do everything in power to make it happen,) and what things I should do to further increase my chance to get into an ivy? I do have a bit of an attention an organizational problem, but I have always been 100% driven to be successful.
Thanks! 
For starters, using paragraphs would help.
Your happiness & success in life is not contingent upon going to an Ivy. In fact, your happiness & success in life is not contingent upon ANY single thing. You need to learn to accept this, or you you will be setting yourself for disappointment for the rest of your like for MANY things.
Incoming junior as well. Tbh, reading this, I laugh a bit bc I remember when I was like this. I obsessed over the Harvard forum. If you spend enough time on this site, you will quickly see that the ivies are not the end all be all. I plan on applying to 2 (Harvard, Penn) or 3 (Harvard, Penn, Columbia) ivies, but it’s just that. I’m not obsessing over them, just applying, and seeing where that goes. It will not be the end if I don’t get into one. Even if I get in, I might not go. I’m applying to 12 schools (6-Reaches, 4-Matches, 2-Safeties), and I would be happy at any one of those. You should adopt this mindset. With a 3.75 GPA, you might as well try if you want, but the odds of getting into an ivy are not in your favor (unless you are hooked). Since you’ve made it you sole goal in life to get into one, you will be REALLY disappointed if you don’t. Not getting in is already likely with a 4.0 and good SAT score, so how do you think it is with a 3.75? Even I’m not expecting to get in, and I will have a 3.85, 2200 SAT (hopefully), and I’m a URM female. But the difference here is that I REALIZE not getting into an ivy isn’t the end. You need to see this too. There are PLENTY of other good schools in the US.
It’s easier to remember how to spell “sophomore” once you hear that the Greek roots referring to second year students mean “wise fool”.
The Ivies may be good schools, but that doesn’t mean they will be the best schools for you.
Thank you everyone for the comments! I wasn’t in my best mental state when I posted this late last night and I do apologize for my grammar mistakes.