How bad is it? (gpa)

asianese
Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:24:44 +0000

Hey CC! I am currently a sophomore attending a non-competitive high school. During my freshman year, I was extremely lazy and had no distinct academic dreams or aspirations and thus did not focus on my grades at all. My cummulative was a 3.5 UW and my class rank was around 90/400. After finding CC as a rising sophomore, I realized that I too wanted to attend a top notch college such as MIT, Caltech, Harvard, etc. I am positive that I can maintain straight As for the rest of my high school career and am planning to take many AP classes to bring up my class rank. I could possibly even be valedictorian if I take the amount of AP classes I plan to. However, the highest my unweighted GPA can be is a measly 3.83 by the end of junior year. How much will this hurt me in the game of competitive college admissions? Please be honest.