Weak courseload?

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<p>I'm looking to get into Ivies. Yale in particular, as well as Tufts, Georgetown, and Stanford (double legacy).</p>

<p>I did well freshman year -or sort of. I got one B, but took all the honors classes possible. I had around a 3.9 UW and 4.6W, or something like that.</p>

<p>But the years that generally matter -sophomore and junior year -I had to drop out of a lot of classes. This is really only an excuse, it's not going to work for explaining everything, but I had massive family problems.</p>

<p>Whether that matters or not, I still ended up dropping trig honors and getting a B in trig regular anyway, and I dropped Chinese 1 after a semester of getting a B(since I was the only person in the class that wasn't completely fluent and chinese already) during sophomore year.</p>

<p>This year, as a junior, I'm not taking a math course. I'll be taking statistics AP next year. I'm also taking an extra free period (five total classes this year. Six, if you count Model United Nations, which does take up a period, but I'm not sure it's recognized in calculating UC GPAs or college ones).</p>

<p>How much is this going to affect me? I have around a 3.85 UW GPA -but only if you include freshman year, which a lot of the colleges I'm interested in don't. I have around a 4.4 Weighted.</p>

<p>Not including freshman year, I'm in the low 3.7s for unweighted, with a 4.15 (approximately) weighted average.</p>

<p>I may be able to raise grades, so I project around a 3.8 UW and 4.2something W at the end of this year.</p>

<p>Will this kill me? I'm completely loaded with ECs (not in numbers, in significant ones), and I'm involved in a lot -and I love all of it. I wouldn't give it up for anything.</p>

<p>But while I realize that a 3.75-3.8 will at least be considered for any of these schools (I'm still in the top 10% class rank, although our school doesn't calculate it, and won't even estimate for anything), I do know that the rigor of the courseload is worth a lot.</p>

<p>And I'm not doing so well there. Three years of math total, B's in a regular class (and one in Algebra II Honors), and just five honors or AP courses for sophomore and junior year.</p>

<p>I'll be ending up with around 14 honors/AP classes total (4 freshman, 2 sophomore, 3 junior, 5 senior year). I'm pretty sure that's under average.</p>

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<p>I'll speak for tufts since I was accepted. I had a 3.78 UW, and I was accepted. I think that with your GPA, you'll be more than qualified and you have a great shot.</p>

<p>I don't think your GPA will keep your out of top schools, though if your class rank is out of the top 10%, the numbers are not in your favor, unfortunately.</p>

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<p>Do you mean you stopped at AlgebraII? That would kill you.</p>

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<p>pft your lucky, i screwed up so bad as to get a 3.2 in a semester :P now i need a 4.8 this semester to get a 4.0 gpa xD</p>

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<p>wait did you take trig soph year? how come you didnt take math this year? well you should definitely take calc (ap or not) over ap stats your senior year.</p>

<p>and was chinese 1 your only language class? you would need 2 years to apply to a uc, and at least 3 to be somewhat competitive.</p>

<p>try not to take anymore free periods, they already saw you dropping out of classes and changing from honors to regular. just push yourself and try to take the most difficult classes. i know you have family problems and stuff, but you still have to make the effort.</p>

<p>good luck.</p>

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<p>wait did you take trig soph year? how come you didnt take math this year? well you should definitely take calc (ap or not) over ap stats your senior year.</p>

<p>and was chinese 1 your only language class? you would need 2 years to apply to a uc, and at least 3 to be somewhat competitive.</p>

<p>try not to take anymore free periods, they already saw you dropping out of classes and changing from honors to regular. just push yourself and try to take the most difficult classes. i know you have family problems and stuff, but you still have to make the effort.</p>

<p>i think your courseload could hurt you at top schools.</p>

<p>good luck.</p>

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<p>Yeah your math career will definitely hurt you at most schools...</p>

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<p>Thanks for the responses.</p>

<p>I was placed one grade ahead in math, so I took geometry honors at the high school in 8th grade with A's. That will not show on my transcript, however.</p>

<p>I took algebra II honors as a freshman, with B's. I was two points off an A both semesters. I took trig as a sophomore, with B's.</p>

<p>I'm not taking math this year.</p>

<p>I did, however, get an 800 on the SATII math IIc, an 800 on the math section, and I received a 110 and 112 on the AMC test, along with a 4 and 6 on the AIME.</p>

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<p>Shameless bump.</p>