i am currently enrolled in Brooklyn Technical High School in nyc and it just recently hit me that i am doing horrible in school. i am asking this pathetic question because it bothers me that i might not be able to go to a decent university. Also i am not taking any honors or AP classes during my sophmore year (mainly because of my horrible grades). But i do plan to improve my grades during the coming school year. Lastly i only failed one class during my freshman year (some design class or DDP).
Ps. my second question is : if i were to do say 400+ volunteer hours at a clinic, would it some how help my chance of getting into a good college?
My extracurriculars:
Handball club
Animal Rights Club
Track Team
Thanks for reading
pps. srry i just wanted to say that the college that i want to go to is NYU Stern. I know that it is a very good school and this is one of the reason i am asking.
If you do a complete turn-a-round, then it might not matter much. I think some colleges don’t even look at your freshman classes when re-calculating your GPA. Either way, I’m sure if you show you’ve grown beyond that stage and have begun to take academics seriously, I’d say you’ve a chance.
In terms of changing your GPA, you still have your entire sophomore and junior year (and some of your senior) to bump your GPA up when admissions time comes around.
thx for your replies. i will be sure to raise those grades but any one have an estimation on what kind of grades i would have to maintain if colleges were to include my freshman grades into my gpa calculations? my guess is at least in the mid 90s.