I am looking to move to a new school sophomore year that has stronger academics. I’m already at a 3.9 on a 4.0 scale with an average of a 93 grade (my lowest grade so far is 89) probably won’t be that high ranked but will that matter? I will be a new kid, but hopefully I can build a rep to where I can run for office positions Junior year… Will moving now affect my resume? Do you think it’d be hard to have strong extracurriculars because of this?
Thanks!
Higher colleges like Stanford, UC Berkeley and Princeton
Sophomore year is better than junior year and senior year should be avoided at all costs. How your ECs work out depends on you. Focus on what you are interested in rather than what your “resume” [I actually hate the use of that word for what kids are doing in high school] looks like. You are too young to be worrying about colleges. Enjoy the next few years.
That said, it can be hard to transfer. I was a junior year transfer [not by choice]. I could not get an AFS bid for my senior year [no way was I going to spend another year in that new school], because others had done the work, and what I did in my old school did not count [although the advisor was very sympathetic & I am anything but bitter since she got me into another program]. That’s why I say sophomore year is a better time to switch. You can make it work, but do not be obvious about striving for positions to pad your “resume.”