What should I improve upon

onerepublic96
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:45:53 +0000

Take the AP’s that coincide with your academic interests/strengths. That is, if you’re a good science student and love science, think about taking classes like AP Chem/Bio/Physics. If you’re more of a humanities student, go for AP Lang/Lit/US History/Gov/etc. Play off your best academic results and interests and don’t just go for quantity.

As for grades, no one can tell you for sure whether you’ll get in or not, as the applications are evaluated holistically. But don’t stress too much. My junior year (infamously the most important one), I got a C in an Honors Trig class (for the year, as in my end of the year grade was a C) and cried for days because I thought this was the end of any chance at a good university. A year later I was getting my acceptance letter to Hopkins.