screwed up my gpa... do i still have a chance at these competitive schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools- Harvard, NYU, Yale, Johns Hopkins BME, Cornell, U Pitt (guaranteed med prgrm), BU, Sophie Davis, Stony Brook (Scholar of Medicine prgrm), Binghamton</p>

<p>Preferred- Johns Hopkins BME, Cornell, Harvard</p>

<p>Going into senior year, I had a 95.10% Unweighted GPA (straight As), and was probably in the top 5-10% in terms of rank. Then this happened.</p>

<p>1st qtr report card
AP Bio-86
AP Chem-80
AP Calc BC-84
AP Spanish-90
AP Gov- 84
AP English- 83</p>

<p>Gym- 93
Science Research- 100</p>

<p>I slacked off...how badly am i screwed? (I will make every effort to make up for this 2nd qtr, but idk if I can get every class to average at a 90)</p>

<p>btw my other stats are here</p>

<p>SAT- 2290- 800 CR, 770 Math, 720 Writing (75 MC, 8 Essay)
SAT IIs- 760 chem, 710 physics, 730 bio, 750 math 2, 790 US hist.
APs- 5 Euro, 4 Physics B, 5 English Lang, 5 US, 5 Psych</p>

<p>Academic Awards-National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction</p>

<p>Senior courseload
AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Spanish ,AP English Lit, AP Gov</p>

<p>Awards/Clubs</p>

<p>-Spanish and Natnl Honor Soc.
-Mathletes (9-12) (one of top scorers on our team, more on having a good, fast understanding of math than not making mistakes in calculations)
-Speech and Debate (10-12)- Varsity Debate captain/President, Placed in Debate and Etemporaneous speaking tournaments, state qualifier in Varsity Extemp. speaking, attended Princeton and Yale tournaments
- Law Team (10-12)- Vice President (12th)-mock trials against other schools in the region
-Amnesty International (10-12)- participated in food drives, raising money for the poor, learning about various human rights violations in the world
- Science Olympiads (10-12)- participated in regional competitions
- Academic Team (10-12)- participated in regional trivia quiz bowls, etc. against other schools
- Gold Medal in Local Math Fair (10th)
- ninjitsu lessons (10th-11th)</p>

<p>Summer Stuff</p>

<p>-(After 9th) Visited cousins in Pakistan, religious pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia (eye opening experience)
- (After 10th) Attended summer science lectures at stony brook (S.A.R.A.S)
- (After 11th) Worked in a lab at Mount Sinai Madical Center, did research on computational methods of detecting neuron activity in the brain (Submitted to Siemens and didn't make it, Submitting to Intel)</p>

<p>Community Stuff
- Volunteer at local hospital, circa 100 hrs (11-12)
- Attended religious school in 9th and 10th grade, highest ranking on tests in school</p>

<p>Random- I won a contest for memorizing 200 digits of pi, and I still know them lol</p>

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<p>Can’t you still bring up your first quarter grades during mid-terms? A large drop in grades senior year never looks good.</p>

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<p>as I said, I will make every effort to make up for this 2nd qtr, but idk if I can get every class to average at a 90+</p>

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<p>I mean, you can see that at least for chemistry, I need a legit 100 next quarter to have a 90 mid year</p>

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<p>The large drop looks terrible. Do everything you can to get them up before midterms – and I mean EVERYTHING.</p>

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<p>…crud.</p>

<p>i’ll do everything i can, but it probably will still end up being sub par… will a mid year report like this still screw me over?</p>

<p>AP Bio-93
AP Chem-88
AP Calc BC-91
AP Spanish-93
AP Gov- 91
AP English- 90</p>

<p>i’ll have to get like 97s to even have a mid- year like this…</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>Get of the web and go study.</p>

<p>Talk to your teachers and be penitent. Ask if there is anything you can do extra to get your grades up because you realize you have done great harm to your college goals.</p>

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<p>although I did not manage to rectify my grades much, I still received admission to Cornell’s Engineering school and was waitlisted by U Penn. I’m posting this just so others can have an idea of how senior grades may or may not affect college decisions. (I was flat out rejected by Harvard, Yale, JHU, and a few accelerated med programs)</p>