Upward Trend Question (chance/advice)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
1

<p>I know its probably a little too early for me to be asking this since I am only a sophomore but this is really important to me. I basically sucked freshman year and slacked hard but now I am ready to work hard so that I may get into Boston college or other top colleges. Also I am taking classes to prepare for the ACT. Does BC look favorably upon students who have a upward trend? Take a look at my stats: </p>

<p>Freshman - 2.74
Sophomore 1st Semester - 3.4
Sophomore 2nd Semester (current) - 3.8 </p>

<p>Current Cumlative GPA - 3.0</p>

<p>EC’s</p>

<p>-Police Explorers (tons of community service from this one)
-Naval Sea Cadets
-Habitat For Humanity
-JV/V Baseball
-Harvard Model Congress
-Leadership position in Future Business Leaders Of America Club</p>

<p>I am planning on taking almost all AP’s junior year to up my GPA even further and doing more community service. So since I am on a upward trend do I still have a chance to get into BC? Please give advice if you can. Thanks!</p>

2

<p>Your fine don’t worry! It’s your sophmore year. You have plenty of time to improve your GPA, take several AP classes, and get a great ACT score. I wish you best of luck!</p>

3

<p>Thanks for the assurance. I kick myself for my freshman year, but I am glad that I am improving sophomore year. It would’ve been way worse if I didn’t change and did bad my 1st semester sophomore year.</p>

4

<p>Yea I’m definitely looking for a 4.0 junior year and the rest of sophomore year. I probably won’t be able to get to a 3.9 cumulative but ill be able to raise it somewhat</p>