<p>I hate to comment on chance threads or questions such as this, because I worry that I’ll insult someone, and because no one can really tell what you are from a brief summary written on thsi board.</p>
<p>However, your grades/transcript/curriculum difficulty are the number one criteria. You keep saying that you slacked off last year, and won’t answer the question of what your grades were last year, so no one can give you any substantive information to your question.</p>
<p>However, those junior year grades are critically important, and unless you have some extenuating cirucmstances beyond merely saying that you slacked off, the admissions committee isn’t likely to be very forgiving of weak grades, regardless of your test scores and how good an essay you write. Hard workers trump geniuses in performance at any college.</p>
<p>There are numerous valedictorians with great test scores, powerful essays and strong extracurricular records that you’re going to go up against.</p>