<p>I am a freshmen in a highly competitive charter-magnet school and have suffered terribly this year with an overloaded schedule - eng concepts, symph orch (we really do have to practice daily in order to pass), hon physics, hon chem, hon frshmen language arts, ap human geo, chinese 1, 1 semester accelerated integrated geometry, and 1 semester precalc. My next year course prospects look like: Ap world history, hons language arts, ap bio, eng applications, symph orch, spanish 3 (im a native speaker but have a poor literacy background), AP calc bc or ab. My problem: i have a low gpa and class rank (3.9 gpa assuming ten points for ap class, ranked 16/ 161 first semester) and would like to raise it. AP bio is a required course, and the other aps are not, but on my math track my only options are AP calc AB or BC. I wish to enroll in the GA tech calc two/three course junior year but fear my gpa will not be high enough to allow admission. Our current valedictorian (1st ranked in freshman class) did not take ap course and consequently had only seven classes. I have several questions. 1. Would I benefit from ap world history 2. Would calc ab or bc be most beneficial? 3. would taking spanish, being a native speaker, hurt my prospects at college acceptance, 4. will the rigor of my school be taken into account on college applications, 5. should i drop out (i have a high chance at being valedictorian at my home high school with a graduating class of 800 plus people, or of at least raising my gpa while still taking ap courses) 6. I wish to take orchestra for 4 years but it is seriously hindering my schedule options 7. which colleges are out of my league?
If i were to continue at my school and on my math track, I would exhaust the course offerings of the only college i currently have hope for acceptance (GA tech)</p>