<p>Ugh that sucks :(</p>
<p>Well just try and do your best and take the hardest classes available at your schools but like I said before also have really strong EC’s, volunteer hours, etc. Overall just make the most of your time.</p>
<p>The good news for you is that a poor freshman year in HS can be more forgiven than a poor junior year. Colleges like to see an upward trend.</p>
<p>So, if you buckle down and get good grades for the rest of high school, and get good standardized tests scores, you should have good options for college.</p>
<p>MIT and JHU are probably both out of reach, but this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work to raise your grades and improve your resume. Other schools will still be impressed by you.</p>
<p>This is so confusing…</p>
<p>Please help</p>
<p>WAIT! Does it make a difference if I told you that I am Black?!</p>
<p>Dude I really think you should aim ‘lower’, and by lower I mean schools with higher acceptance rates. Note, however, that just because a school happens to be easier to get into doesn’t mean necessarily that the academics are worse. A lot of what makes the Ivies, for instance, hard to get into is their prestige relative to other colleges.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s all doom and gloom the way other people might make it out to be. I mean, I had a 2.8 freshman year and transferred to a school for sophomore year that graded only based on effort and got basically the equivalent of Fs there. Picked up my act in junior and senior year, got pretty much straight As, and eventually was admitted into a top-25 university. (Granted, I got rejected by Johns Hopkins anyway.)</p>
<p>You’re not screwed, so just work hard and bring those grades up.</p>