<p>I’m nearing the end of my freshman year. I’ve been doing a lot of research on college-related things such as SAT Subject Tests, AP Exams/Courses, and various other things. </p>
<p>Fortunately, I was able to stumble across these things now, instead of years down the road where I’d be wishing I had found out about it back in my freshman year. </p>
<p>Anyways, I’m wanting to know everything I can possibly do to stand out as one of the best applicants in the nation to the top universities. </p>
<p>My track record up until now [currently in freshman year]:</p>
<p><em>4.0 GPA [have never had lower than an A on my report cards]
*Early promotion [skipped 4th grade]
*Member of National Junior Honor Society in 8th grade
*25 Hours Community Service [doubt it’s on record, the NJHS did such a horrible job keeping track of everyone’s community service]
Established an online business </em>SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION</p>
<p>Things I will be doing:
*Taking SAT Biology this coming June
*Applying to National Honor Society
*Attending JSA Summer School this summer and taking AP U.S. Gov. and Politics
*Joining basketball team sophomore year
*Participating in community service this summer and on
*Join school newspaper staff and apply to some journalism related honor society [think its called Quill & Scroll]</p>
<h2>My Online Business:</h2>
<p>Basically, I have been coding/programming since I was 10 years old. I know several web coding languages. For the past year, I have been coding an online browser based game in the language PHP. I just recently finished the project, and have began running it to generate some profit. It is still in beta testing, but it is growing quickly, has already generated profit through ads, and is expected to generate even more in the future as premium membership is released and traffic increases.</p>
<p>My 9th grade courses:</p>
<h2>1st quarter</h2>
<p>*American Government Honors
*English 1 Honors
*Eastern Western Heritage Honors [pre AP World History]
*Business Systems and Technologies</p>
<h2>2nd Quarter</h2>
<p>*Team Sports 2 [Physical Education req.]
*English 1 Honors
*Health [required grad requirement]
*Business Systems and Technologies</p>
<h2>3rd Quarter</h2>
<p>*Journalism 1
*Geometry Honors
*Advanced Weight Training [Physical Education req.]
*Biology Honors</p>
<h2>4th Quarter</h2>
<p>*Journalism 1
*Geometry Honors
*Semantics and Logic
*Biology Honors</p>
<p>Journalism 1 is considered an English elective. </p>
<p>The school is currently on a block schedule, but unfortunately is changing to a traditional schedule next year. </p>
<p>Some classes I unfortunately was placed in because of some mistakes made by previous middle school counselors :/</p>
<p>Next year’s schedule should look something like this:</p>
<p>*Algebra 2 Honors
*AP World History
*Spanish 1
*English 2 Honors
*Chemistry Honors
*Personal Fitness [requirement], then ???
*Journalism 2 [newspaper staff]</p>
<p>I’m not from a wealthy family, but I am willing to work for any extra options that will put me ahead. JSA summer school should give me an AP credit, and I will take the appropriate AP exam the following May. </p>
<p>My main focuses right now are to increase extra curriculars if needed, and to study for SAT Biology. </p>
<h2>Questions:</h2>
<p>1) How rigorous are AP courses?
2) Is SAT Biology hard?
3) How can I get ahead in classes? Do community colleges offer AP courses, or college courses?
4) What is the difference between AP courses/credits and college courses/credits?
5) Are there any major tests that I should be preparing for, or that I should be looking into?<br>
6) If I decide to take a few classes at my local community college, what should I take? [meaning I’d rather not pick a useless class, so advise me! :P]</p>
<p>Any other comments and/or information is appreciated. Anything that I probably don’t know but I should know would also be nice to know 
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<p>Oh, and if I posted this in the wrong section, I am sorry.</p>
I also have deep interest in law and politics. And thanks for the advice, sounds like quality.</p>