Chances as of freshman year?

Chance Me / Match Me
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  • White girl from lower-middle class family
  • Northeast Ohio
  • Attending small all-girls Catholic high school on partial scholarship

Freshman year schedule:
Phys Ed (required)
Honors Western Society
Honors American Lit
Honors Biology
Latin 1 (no honors offered)
Geometry (no honors offered)
Theology (required)

Freshman year I was:

  • VP of freshman class
  • Member of Social Action Club and Ambassador’s club (promotes the school)
  • On speech team
  • Writer for the school newspaper
  • Played volleyball (but will not continue)
  • Ranked Silver in National Latin Exam for Latin 1

I volunteer outside of school at a food distribution group for families in the city and a bilingual education group for young Hispanic children (but I don’t speak Spanish, I help them learn to read English).

Sophomore year predicted schedule:
Honors British Lit
Honors Chem
Honors Algebra 2/Trig
AP European History
Latin 2
Theology (required)
PE (required)
Art

The majors I’m thinking about pursuing are political science, linguistics, education, Literature, or history. These obviously aren’t locked in, though. My eventual life goal is to either be a writer (novels, plays), a laywer, a politician, or a teacher. (Or potentially a few of them.) Essentially I want to do something where I feel like I’m projecting good into the world.

I want to apply to one Ivy school as my reach (Brown most likely), elite liberal arts schools (Wesleyan, Kenyon, etc), or potentially NYU , Case Western, or Fordham. I would also strongly consider a women’s-only education again and apply to Barnard, Smith, or Wellesly .My safety school will probably be OSU or Kent State.

Any predictions, thoughts, or tips are GREATLY appreciated. I’m a college-conscious sophomore just trying to make sure I’m doing the right thing.

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I’m a year ahead on my school’s English track because I began the course in grade 8. My school also doesn’t offer NHS.

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Your schedule looks good, as long as you have nearly straight As and good test scores you should be fine academically. Brown in the only school mentioned that seems like a high reach. To improve your application you are going to want extracurriculars that follow a certain pattern, not necessarily extracurriculars that are all over the place. Find what you are really passionate about and have your extracurriculars revolve around that. Also, your extracurriculars seem to mostly be in school activities, try to get involved in out of school activities as well. I am a freshman in high school as well and for some reason I like looking at colleges and students and their GPAs, kind of want to be an admissions officer (what type of person says that in HS). Right now you have a good chance for all of the schools you have mentioned, except maybe Brown (depending on your grades).

4

Forgot to add my grades, whoops.

Semester 1 GPA: 4.25
Semester 2 GPA: 4.15

5

Please add your unweighted GPA, and list the classes you didn’t get an A or A+ in. This will matter for colleges. Most colleges don’t care about weighted GPA.

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Phys Ed (100)
Honors Western Society (99, 98)
Honors American Lit (98, 99)
Honors Biology (93,94)
Latin 1 (100)
Geometry (92, 94)
Theology (required) (100,100)

My school doesn’t do + or - so our GPA weighting is strictly 4,3,2, etc.

Unweighted, my GPA is:
S1: 3.92
S2: 4.00