Will my ECs cover my weak grades?

maxbbj
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:44:53 +0000

I’m a junior in high school right now but will be begin applying to colleges fall/winter of this year. I’m worried my grades might bar me from acceptance at top schools, though my ECs are pretty strong. Here’s a rundown of my profile:

GPA: 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.6 (taken 15 APs after this year)
Most recent SAT score: 1470 (was meant to take the cancelled SAT in spring, averaged 1560 on official practice exams)

ECs:

Founder of nonprofit that uses blockchain to help mitigate fish extinction (won a few national environmental awards for this so far, gave me $3,500 in scholarship total and awaiting results for some other ones; also was able to partner with the WWF to expand to Australia and work with some professors from around my city - have been able to save 3 species of fish so far)

Captain of my varsity track team (sprinting times have given me some attention from college coaches - hoping I can improve times to get more letters but nothing big just a few D3's)

Co-founded the Investing & Entrepreneurship club at my school, which then became the most popular club in our school within 2 weeks by membership

Co-founded an initiative to prevent the spread of coronavirus using machine learning and blockchain - now being featured in an upcoming Forbes documentary and endorsed by Congressman David Schweikert

Run a personal blog that has garnered over 1,000 email newsletter subscribers - write about the applications of tech and business in community work

Now conducting research with a finance/business professor this summer that will allow me to contribute to his research paper and learn higher level business concepts to apply to my own work

If it’s significant, I’m aiming to apply to undergrad b schools like Wharton, Sloan, Stern, etc. But if rejected, I’ll look to apply as a CS or Econ major at schools with no business undergrad program.