<p>Hi, unfortunately my sophomore year was not good. My parents made me move from Portland Oregon to Virginia the summer before sophomore year. I had never been to the east coast in my life and I missed my friends so much. I moved a lot when I was younger, mostly around California until I was 11 years old. Then I lived in oregon until I was 15 and I was finally somewhere that I felt comfortable and I never moved. I was finally able to grow up with the kids around me, rather than move. Anyway after I moved to Virginia that all changed.
Anyway, I'll get to the point.
I really messed up my sophomore year because I had a lot going on. We moved to Virginia (a place where I hated and did not fit in at all) and along with that I was stuck in a hotel room with my mom and my dad. My mom didn't think that she could get an apartment so we lived in a hotel, because that makes so much sense. To make it even better, my dad is an alcoholic so I had to deal with that every single night as well, in a small room. Anyway I was just wondering if I told universities about this, they would be more lenient about my sophomore year?
These are my classes and grades for sophomore year:
Spanish 2: A (1st semester) B (2nd semester)
Business Law: C (one semester)
Business Management: B (one semester)
World History: B (1st semester) B (2nd semester)
English 10 Honors: B (1st semester) B (2nd semester)
Chemistry: F (1st semester) B (2nd semester)
Geometry: C (1st semester) C (2nd semester)
Health: A (one semester)
PE: A (one semester)
So that's about a 2.7</p>
<p>For my junior year, I did a lot better even though I had a lot of the same stuff going on. I guess I just got more used to it. And also for the second semester, I had to switch to a new school because we moved to Maryland.</p>
<p>My classes and grades for junior year:
Film Studies: A (one semester)
AP Lang: C (1st semester) A (2nd semester)
AP US History: B (1st semester) A (2nd semester)
AP Psychology: B (1st semester) B (2nd semester)
SAT Prep: B (one semester)
Physics: C (one semester)
Honors Physics: C (one semester) I switched to honors physics because I couldn't stand the people in my physics class at the new school.
Algebra 2: C (1st semester) A (2nd semester)</p>
<p>I did a lot better the second semester, but I still did a lot better my junior year than my sophomore year.</p>
<p>I don't have many extracurricular activities, but in my sophomore year I was in FBLA (future business leaders of America). In junior year, I was in the Key Club but that was in the first semester so I wasn't able to do anything because I switched schools in December. Then at the school in Maryland I joined GEARS, which was a club to spread awareness about genocide. Though honestly, we didn't do much in that club either..</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm planning to take three or four AP classes for my senior year. I want to apply for universities in senior year and then tell them to postpone my enrollment because I want to do a gap year. I would be volunteering in other countries.
I haven't taken my SAT yet. I know I'm dumb. I'm going to try to take it twice senior year. I have taken like four PSATs though, and I keep getting around 1500-1650. I know that's not very good but I'm going to study more this summer.</p>
<p>Anyway this is really long. I want to go to CSULB or SDSU in California. Those are my top choices but I know that probably won't happen because I'm out of state. I'm most likely moving back to Oregon this summer, which I'm really happy about so I might go to a university there too. I'd prefer to not go to a university more east than Texas.</p>
<p>Anyway, do you think I would have any chances of getting into those schools? Did my sophomore year doom me of any chances? And how could I make myself have a higher chance?
Thanks for reading this really long post, and thanks for anyone who can help. :)</p>
