Uprising sophomore in need of help from anyone older.

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I know a lot of posts are like here are my stats and will I get into this college but I was wondering if you could look at my stats and tell me what I need to add from now so that I don’t worry when I am a senior.

GPA: 4.0 unweighted
4.45 wieghted (4.5 for all honors classes)

Freshman year:

Honors World History, Act prep (ONLINE), Honors Math 2, Honors Math 3, Honors English 1, Honors English 2, Honors Chemistry 1, Honors Chemistry 2, Honors Microsoft Word and Powerpoint (both certified and expert certified in Word), Honors Microsoft Excel and Access (both certified and expert certified in Excel), OneNote Certified

3rd place in school science fair
FBLA Club
WEE Club
Interact Club
Science Olympiad (one gold and silver in county)
over 200 hours at the hospital
Medical Camp provided by school in summer
Top 5 in my school (about 10%)
My dad owns his own pharmaceutical business (a really small one) and I help him in his lab anytime I can.

I know there are too many courses to take in one year but I go to an early college high school where we take requirements for two high school years in one years so I will be completed with my high school requirements by the end of sophomore year. Our school only has 60 kids but it is a selective school that only takes in the smartest kids who apply. In my junior and senior year I will go to uncw and take courses there which I think will count as AP courses but I am not entirely sure.

What would you guys recommend that I should do to make my resume stronger. I’m not going to lie I would say my essays are going to be my weakness because I have travelled all my life and my education got very confusing when I repeatedly moved from US to India then back switching schools each time. My english is not the best. My race is asian (indian). What would you also recommend I take in my junior and senior year.

I am really hoping to get into Chapel Hill. I am in state and it is my dream school and it would really be amazing if someone could help. Thank you to anyone who helped or replied.

I might try for some Ivy league school but I am not sure if I will get into any.

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Usually the top colleges want you to have Calculus, 4 years of the same foreign languag. 4 years of science. Don’t take AP US History is it really hard for ELL students (unless u are fascinated by it). Go to an info session at Chapel
Hill this summer and get the info straight from them! What they want will apply to most other excellent schools. Good luck!!!

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Oh yeah is it “rising sophomore.” :slight_smile:

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First of all thank you for replying. I am taking rest of the required classes in my sophomore year. But I won’t be having that many years of the same language as I am only starting to take spanish 1 in my sophomore year. Do you think that will affect my chances of getting in?

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Make sure you take your core classes MATH: (Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Pre Calc, Calc), English (hopefully taking AP Lit or COmp by senior year), SCIENCE(Bio/CHem/Physics and at least one AP version of those), Required Social Studies, Foreign language up to Level 4…

Read, read, and read some more to help your english. Doesn’t have to be super difficult books, but keep reading and writing. Go after school to ask your english teacher if there are particular areas of English you should work on.