I am currently taking four AP courses my sophomore year. I will take 5 next year, and hopefully 5 or 6 more my senior year. I have a grade in a foreign language that is worth a 3.7 on my transcript. I can’t seem to get my grade any higher. Will this tank my hope to go to an Ivy League school, such as Yale, Harvard, or a school like MIT? If I work really hard next semester(which is a new level of this course) and get a really good grade, will colleges see that as overcoming an issue? If not, what can I do to improve my grade? Has anyone gotten into Harvard or Yale with a GPA that is less than perfect, without starting an NGO or Nonprofit that saves peoples lives or something to that extent?
I should add that, without this course, I have a 4.0.
In other words, an A-?
No.
Yes. Me, for one. Plenty of applicants with perfect grades and scores get rejected every year, and plenty with less than perfect stats get admitted. Your GPA is one part of the application.
Not that you asked, but there is no reason for you to have 14-15 APs; it’s not an arms race, and no college will be impressed by the volume of AP classes. It may be that you’ve overextended yourself academically and that is causing your “problem.” Without knowing what your issues are in the FL language class, no one can give specific guidance on how to improve. But there are plenty of tools on the internet. Additionally watching movies/TV in the foreign language also helps some.