<p>Hello young one.</p>
<p>You must be a sophomore right now. I don’t know how you’re doing, but I’ve heard time and time again that colleges like an upward trend in grades, so if you’re doing better, that is a plus. A poster above me pointed out that freshmen year classes are the easiest, which is true, at the same, hopefully as you’re progressing through your high school career, you’re figuring out more and more about which study habits work best for you, and overcoming bad habits that prevent you from reaching your full potential (such as wasting your Sunday afternoon on CC instead of studying…something that I personally need to work on :/) </p>
<p>Also, I think that it’s worth noting that Princeton (and Stanford, and UCs, and maybe some other schools that are actually on your list, but I don’t know about those) don’t count your freshmen year grades. </p>
<p>So my advice to you is to study, join extracurriculars that you’re interested in (not ones that you think top schools will like), prepare for the SAT and keep your options open. Ever since freshman year, my dream school has been Yale, but lately (I’m now a junior) I’ve been thinking about other schools and programs that they have that might be better suited to my interests. The fact of the matter is, you don’t know how you’ll feel senior year, or even junior year.</p>