Hi all,
I’m a current sophomore in HS, and I’m not doing well.
My first semester grades were terrible:
PE: B (don’t laugh)
Bio-Tech: B (Oof)
AP World History: A
English: A
Chemistry: A
IB Math SL Year 1: B
Spanish: B (extremely hard for me)
I expect around the same grades second semester.
I have self-studied AP Biology, AP Calc BC, and AP Chemistry (5, 3 with AB sub 4, idk the score for AP Chem). I have also become a USABO semifinalist this year. As for sports, I’m in varsity tennis.
My school is predominantly Latino and low-income, but I’m a upper middle class Asian female. My school only offers 1 AP, World History, but offers the full IB diploma(but will only let you take IB Biology HL for the science requirement, which is why I had to self-study AP Chem). I had to self-study AP Calc BC as IB Math SL at my school barely covers calculus. (It’s the highest math you can get at my school).
I did poorly this year because of an anxiety issue. Besides improving my grades, I want to know what I can do to improve my application and what schools would be safe for me. I want to go into computational biology.