Im a low-income black sophomore from a title-1 south Florida school.
59 out of 582
Cumulative GPA: 3.3871
Academic Core GPA: 3.6053
Weighted Cumul. GPA: 4.5161
-African American
-Varsity tennis player,
-National Honor Society
-National Science Honor Society
-Won poetry competitions,
-Founded 2 businesses,
-300+ service hours,
-Founded school newspaper and chief editor,
-Founded business club (vice president),
-Debate team captain, may also be some other position,
-Member of chem club
-Member of NASSU(Black heritage)
-Member of Muslim student association
-Member of Law club
-saxophone for 5 years, I’ve taught myself how to play the guitar,
I posted my stats above and i wanted to see if raising my gpa would have a big factor in college admissions. Now i started taking advanced high school classes in 8th grade(Bio, Spanish, Alg 1, and debate ) while i consider myself smart, i WAS A SLACKER. i got C’s and D’s in bio, A “C” Alg 1, an “A” in Spanish, and a “B” in debate. I then moved onto high-school not really caring and got above average (not great A’s and majority B’s) grades and started off my high school experience ranked 216 out of 6XX students. I then had aspirations of attending Chicago and Columbia and decided it was time to get my stuff together. I started taking Ap physics, psych, and world sophomore year and as I’m nearing the end of it I’ve gotten all A’s and have boosted my ranking up 157 spots and have elected to take 6/7/8 Ap classes junior year (Environmental, Gov, US, Lang, Seminar, Music theory, 2d Art, and maybe Statistics if i take pre-calc over the summer. I also know that senior year i will take a minimum of 7 Ap’s and I’m confident in my ability to pass the exam and get A’s. I was wondering if this dramatic increase in gpa and class rank(which i believe i will be in the top 5%) will look good and even comparable to students that maintained a perfect 4.0.