<p>You have a direly low GPA for someone reaching for Harvard… Yes, honors classes (well some schools don’t, some do) can raise your WEIGHTED GPA. However, I’m pretty sure unweighted GPA is much more important than your weighted GPA. Weighted GPA plays a huge factor, but only because it shows how many challenging classes you took, not because of the grades it shows that you got. Since you’re going to be a sophomore, that means you just completely messed up your freshman year. It might be better to start aiming for other schools in HYPSM that disregard your freshman year when looking at your app.</p>