Terrible Sophomore Year 2.8 - Can I Still Make Okay Colleges?

Applying to College
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<p>Well, this year I got an academic non weighted GPA of about 2.8 both semesters.</p>

<p>I took 4 Honors courses and pre calc, which is in general mainly for juniors.</p>

<p>its a 3.0 UC gpa</p>

<p>i am planning to easy up my courseload next year, taking one ap and one honors, and other easier classes. i will have the easiest schedule out of basically all of my friends to up my gpa.</p>

<p>if i get a 3.7-4.0 , a 4.0-4.333 UC GPA</p>

<p>can i still get into a good college?</p>

<p>varsity tennis</p>

<p>70 hours community service</p>

<p>40 in a foreign country</p>

<p>i got a 176 by barely studying for the psat</p>

<p>so i am going to study a lot for the sat and hopefully get like a 2000.</p>

<p>if i can do all of that, get a good upward trend, could i make some good colleges? like UCD, UCSB, or UCI? or other good colleges? Atleast UCSC?</p>

<p>please advice me what to do and how to improve my chances. am i right to take easy classes and up my gpa? </p>

<p>i still have plenty of time. please help and guide me!! thanks. what should i do to up my admissions chances at collegs?</p>

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<p>Yes you can still make it. Just do better next year and show them an upward trend, and try to boost other areas of your app other than GPA.</p>

<p>I also did not do well sophomore year so we are kind of similar.</p>

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<p>take courses that are suitable for you and that you know you can do well in without compromising your gpa.</p>

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<p>yeah thats what i am planning on doing next year</p>

<p>any more advice?</p>

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<p>"okay" schools? yes.
"top" schools? eh, it depends...</p>

<p>my college counselor likes to tell this story. one of his advisees had very low grades his freshman year...mostly C's and a D or two. he pulled them up to B's and C's his sophomore year. A's and a B his junior year. A's his senior year. he's at brown now.</p>

<p>of course, this is not to say that this will work for you. but, my grades are not great because i am an awful classroom test taker...i have terrible memorization skills. so, i do well on papers, etc., but come final exams i am hopefully. i made mostly B's, with some A's and a C or two sprinkled throughout, and i got into schools like dickinson, rhodes, and sewanee, which are considered pretty competitive schools. i did very well on the SATs and focused a lot on strong EC's, essays, and interviews.</p>

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<p>"my college counselor likes to tell this story. one of his advisees had very low grades his freshman year...mostly C's and a D or two. he pulled them up to B's and C's his sophomore year. A's and a B his junior year. A's his senior year. he's at brown now."</p>

<p>Omg. I love that story.</p>

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<p>lol thanks, say i get a 4.0 uc gpa jr year, can i make uc sb, i, or d? atleast sc right?</p>

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<p>you are probably good for sb and sd in that case. maybe d and i. good luck!</p>

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<p>umm, i think sd is better than i sb and d, and the last 3 are all roughly =</p>