Thank you! My school is incredibly competitive and the top few students have literally only taken AP classes. It often comes down to the decimal point and my decision to take drama and engineering throughout high school, although they are courses I really enjoyed, brought my GPA down to where I wasn’t competitive for that top 10%. I also didn’t take summer dual enrollment classes in junior and senior year summer, which is how most people boost their GPAs. Instead, I worked a job and studied hard for the SAT my junior year summer and attended SSP my senior year summer. I’m also including the engineering pathway, drama, SSP, and my job in my essays, as they are all things I’m passionate about and proud of, so they make for good writing material. My school’s rank system is super competitive, but it is the way it is, I guess.
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