How does my high school career look?

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Hi everyone, as the summer starts to close and college apps are starting, I’d really like to get some opinions on how I did during my high school life.
General School things:
UW GPA: 3.75
W GPA: 4.1
Honors Courses offered: Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Lit 11, Pre-Calc, Chemistry
AP Courses offered: Calc AB/BC, Macroecon, US Gov, US History, Stats, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Physics 1, Physics C, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, CS.
School prohibits double enrollment in courses (i.e. Physics and AP Chem in the same year)
School restricts weighted classes for underclassmen.

Courseload (=required class)
Freshman
PE
Freshman Lit*
Biology*
Chinese 4H (had to test in to take this course)
Geometry
Business (basically microecon)
Orchestra (Cello)

Sophomore
Chem H
Dance*
English 10*
World History*
Algebra 2/Trig
Business 2
AP Chinese (5)

Junior
Lab Assistant
AP Chem (5)
APUSH (5)
Lit 11 Honors
Pre-Calc H
International Business

Senior (planned)
AP Macro (1st sem)
AP Gov (2nd sem)
AP Calc BC
AP Lit
AP Physics 1
Lab Assistant (different teacher than before)

Other APs
11- APLAC (“self study”): 4 (s/o to APLAC for ruining my nice AP average)

Other things:
Won 7 Awards in Business and Science
Played 2 sports at JV level (I quit because of school)
VP of a science club at my school
Peer Tutor (self-employed, not affiliated with school)
Have around 50 ish hours of volunteering (my competitions take up a lot of time)
Struggled with depression and family problems in sophomore year. Spent 2nd semester and beginning of junior year recovering.
If you’re wondering about my grades: 30 As, 10 Bs.
Regular/Standard Track math.
Grade trend is like upside down bell curve. Good freshman and junior year, bad sophomore year.

So please, feel free to tell my how you think I did in high school. Judge based on criteria like course rigor, time spent, grades, etc. If you want, rate things on a scale of 1-10 (1 being terrible, 10 being outstanding).

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I would rate this a solid 7. I recommend taking the AP Physics 2 exam as well. Maybe even physics C if you can…AP Chinese is pretty impressive for a sophomore. The lab assistant class seems very cool :). GPA could be a bit better and junior year could’ve been more challenging. You should be set to get into a good college if you do well in senior year :smiley:

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@savagestudent7 Thanks! I think the AP Physics 2 exam is required for people taking AP Physics 1 at my school :stuck_out_tongue: The APLAC test was for my honors lit class in junior year hence self study in quotes. Haha I wanted to take something more challenging junior year, but school didn’t have the classes, and I didn’t have prereqs for Calc or CS fulfilled :stuck_out_tongue:

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bump