<p>I’ve always been under the impression that of all the years of high school, freshman year is the least important - at least from a college admissions standpoint. If you work hard and get into honors classes for your sophomore year, that hard work and improvement will show on your transcript. I got into Harvard this year without taking the absolute hardest track in every single subject - I willingly bowed out of my school’s top-level calculus class! Don’t stress out about this sort of thing as a freshman; focus on doing well in the present, not on attaining a far-off Ivy League goal.</p>