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okay well im a soph. at a really good high school and im scared im not gonna get into a good college. i have mostly B's and some A's but i'm taking pretty hard classes.

FRESHMAN YEAR:

Hnrs World History
Biology Level II
Power Reading (extra class that is supposed to look good on your college app.)
P.E.
Spanish Level II
English Level II
Al/Trig

- i did swimming & gymnastics this year
- & a lot of community service

SOPH. YEAR

Child Development
Chemistry Level II
AP Psych
P.E.
Pre-Calc Level II
English Level II
Spanish Level II

- i'm doing gymnastics and either lacrosse/track.
- i'm in two clubs--> GIMA & EARTHWORKS
- i do community service pretty much every friday
- i want to get a job this summer.. probably as a camp counselor or at a clothing store
- i'm also doing this drug-free retreat program through the school
- and im joining a religious club outside of school and doing programs through that

what do you think? and what else can i do that would look good? and any tips on how to get my grades up? what colleges do you think i could get into?

If you go to a really reputable school then colleges will take into consideration the level of difficult of that school. For instance when someone who goes to a sh*ty school and gets a 4.0 and someone who goes to an extremely hard repuatable school and gets a 3.6 then the college will think that the second person is better.

As for you situation, colleges don't really look at 9th grade they just look that you have completed and passed all the courses. It's good that you are taking AP classes in Sophmore year though however it's not a core class like Math or Science so they won't take it into that much more of a consideration as regular honors classes. (however it does bring up your GPA which is great!!!). You have lots of extra curriculars but many people fake them so when you do eventually apply for colleges make sure to show proof of them with recommendations and signed forms from the extra curricular/volunteer leaders. As a minus though, they will see that you repeated English and Spanish (they are both level 2, and though they don't care so much about your freshmen year if they see you repeated it they won't like that).

Volunteer work, Model UN, School President/VP, Validictorian, Peer Counseling, is stuff that colleges L-O-V-E. I have no idea what colleges you have a chance of as of now because you give no GPA and you haven't taken the SAT yet or haven't given your scores.

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(Rating: 5) thanks.. but i didnt repeat classes.. its freshman english level II & then soph. english level II. then spanish 3-4 level II and spanish 5-6 level II
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