What to do for Senior Year?

Applying to College
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Hi everyone, I wanted to get some advice for my senior year plans. This will be very long but please bear with me.

Freshman year, I attended a large public school and took the following classes:

  • Honors Biology
  • Honors Geometry
  • Honors 9th Lit
  • AP US Government (5)
  • Spanish I
  • Health/Fitness
  • Intro Business
  • Intro Art My unweighted GPA was a 3.92 on a 4.33 scale.

I decided to take my sophomore classes online for many reasons (scheduling issues, family hardships, medical issues, etc.) and I took the following classes (I can’t take Honors classes online, only APs):

  • AP World History (3)
  • AP Environmental Science (4)
  • Physics
  • Latin I
  • Advanced Algebra II
  • 10th Lit

My GPA was a 4.16 on a 4.33 scale.

I took these classes with Georgia Virtual School which is 100% accredited and used by public schools in Georgia. I am also taking my junior classes online and this is my schedule:

  • AP US History
  • AP English Language
  • AP Microeconomics & Macroeconomics
  • Chemistry
  • Latin II
  • Accelerated Pre-Calculus

I need advice on what I should do for senior year- should I stay in online school or go back to my public school? I am looking to get into a top college such as Georgetown, USC, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, etc. (between around 10 and 30% acceptance rates) for a degree in Finance/Economics.

I took the SAT for the first time during sophomore year and scored a 1370 without much studying. I plan to take it again until I score a 1470 or higher.
My extracurriculars have never been strong because I did not realize the importance of them and because I have not had excellent opportunities at both the public school and online school, but they currently are:

  • 3 years gymnastics coach
  • runner (half-marathons, 10ks, etc.)
  • 4 self-fundraised service trips
  • 10 years soccer player (no awards, injured knee)
  • tutor

If I returned to my public school, I would

  1. Be graduating from a “real school”
  2. Have a class rank
  3. Have better teacher rec letters (probably)
  4. Possibly be able to improve extracurriculars

BUT

  1. Would only be able to take 2 APS (so 8 total in highschool)
  2. GPA would probably be lower
  3. Less time to focus on finding outside extracurriculars (like internships)
  4. More time with friends

Staying at online school would let me take the classes I want (which are AP Literature, AP Physics, AP Calc AB, AP Statistics, Mathematics of Finance, and Latin III) and my GPA would probably be higher, plus I will have taken 10 or more APs. However, I am still scared of the stigma around online school and don’t want it to impact my college admissions (if I returned to public school, they would transcribe my online transcripts into their system, so it wouldn’t say that I attended GAVS, only my public school for all four years). Which sounds like a better plan?
SORRY THIS IS SO LONG