Will this hurt my chances?

Applying to College
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<p>I’m in my junior year, preparing to study like mad. That said, I have a few problems. For freshman and sophomore year, I had only one extracurricular. Freshman year was me being oblivious, while sophomore year was me being out of school for much of the year with an illness. This year I plan to peer-tutor in math and French, join Key Club, and maybe join another club. I’m not sure yet. I’ll be doing some community service outside Key Club, too.</p>

<p>For what it’s worth, here’s my schedule for junior year:</p>

<p>English 11 High Honors
Physics Honors
P.E.
AP US History II
Study Hall
AP French V
Trigonometry/Pre-Calc High Honors</p>

<p>The study hall is lame, yeah, but I couldn’t find anything good to replace it with. </p>

<p>For senior year, I’m planning on an almost entirely AP and high honors schedule. I’m interested in schools like Oberlin, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, and Tufts–will the lack of extracurriculars in freshman and sophomore year significantly hurt my chances at getting in?</p>

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<p>Look up each of the school’s common data sets, which should be somewhere on their websites. I think it is part C where they show how much weight they give to each aspect of the application. If they give it a lot of weight, it might hurt. But you had an illness so maybe if you explain that somewhere your lack of ECs would be pardoned.</p>