May
31

Am I headed in the right direction?

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Okay. I’m a Junior in High school and i’m getting worried about what colleges in general. I really want to reach high, and go to the ivy leagues, but I don’t think i have what it takes to go there. I want to be something great. I want to go to the best college and ultimately, make something of myself in life. here’s my high school "stats" please give me feed back on if I’m on the right path or what should I do more of:

Junior Class Schedule:
0 Period-Jazz Band
1st Period-Pre Calculus
2nd Period-Honors LA 3
3rd Period-Advanced Band
4th Period-Physics
5th Period-AVID Tutoring
6th Period-AP-US History

These Classes are the highest in my school. My school doesn’t really have all the AP classes, but only some, and I would be willing to take all of them next year, if there will be some.

Extra Curricular Activities:
I am a Band Geek. I have around 7 years of band, three years of jazz band and three years of marching band. I am also the Drum Major of my high school’s marching band for two years when I graduate. Other than playing in the Jazz band, I also know how to play five instruments fluently. Other than band, I am a public speaker. I won many public speaking awards, such as first place regional’s for a public speaking competition at UCSC, and many preliminary competitions. I also am volunteering at my local hospital, which is very thrilling. I’m also very involved in my local perish. I’m the altar server and lector of some Sunday masses and recently, I made a church band and choir to expand my musical talents not just in school, but to my local church, which is really excelling. I also volunteer at my grandma’s Filipino society organizations with the clerical work and scheduled meetings. I also go to my local college and take come courses like ethnic studies, and Spanish. I was also the Junior Homecoming Prince Candidate.

Co Curricular:
I am involved in some sports. I took a season of baseball in my sophomore year, and I’m still actively in Marching Band and WinterGuard. I was the Manager for the Cross Country team, and take tennis lessons at my local tennis center, because there’s no boy’s tennis team in my school :’(

Curricular/Academic:
I am sure to take ALL the hard classes in my school. I’m taking my SAT and ACT this spring, and I’m studying now. I am in MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement), which is affiliated with the public speaking awards. 3rd place Prelim freshman year, 1st place Prelims sophomore year, 1st place regional’s sophomore year, and this year 3rd place prelims for Pre-Calculus. Regional’s are in 3 weeks. I am active in many clubs such as CSF (California Scholarship Federation), AFS/WES, and I was the founder of the NHS (National Honor Society) Chapter in my school. We will be fundraising for Japan soon. I’m also the delegate/candidate for Boy’s State in my school.

This year, I plan to go to a leadership camp at UCSC in two weeks, and in the summer, I plan to go to Boy’s State, do some marching band parades, go to a Catholic leadership camp, volunteer more at the hospital, and intern at a healthcare business administration company in LA.

Freshman GPA: 4.0
Sophomore GPA: 3.8
Junior GPA (as of now): 3.9

Is this too little? Is this too much? Am I on the right track? I know there are more people that do more than I do, and have better grades and have better scores than I do. I want to reach for the highest. Am I doing so? What should I work on? What should I do more of, or what do you think I should do to get into that ivy league school of my dreams and be someone in this world? College students would really help me right now! icon smile Am I headed in the right direction?

Thank You for taking your time to read and answer this question icon smile Am I headed in the right direction? I really appreciate it!

You don’t need to attend an ivy league college to be successful in life.

In fact, since you live in California, there are plenty of terrific universities in the state that would provide you with an education that would enable you to do pretty much anything you want to do in life.

Until you take your ACT/SAT test this spring, it would be difficult to determine which types of colleges that you would probably be admitted to. Personally, if I lived in California when I was in high school (I was #1 in my high school class and scored a 28 on the ACT), I would have tried to get accepted into Cal-Berkeley. To me, that is the best school in the state for the money.

Comments

  1. Jason Dobkin says:

    Just take the highest classes available, and also try to take some online classes if you want some more ap credit
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  2. Mary says:

    You don’t need to attend an ivy league college to be successful in life.

    In fact, since you live in California, there are plenty of terrific universities in the state that would provide you with an education that would enable you to do pretty much anything you want to do in life.

    Until you take your ACT/SAT test this spring, it would be difficult to determine which types of colleges that you would probably be admitted to. Personally, if I lived in California when I was in high school (I was #1 in my high school class and scored a 28 on the ACT), I would have tried to get accepted into Cal-Berkeley. To me, that is the best school in the state for the money.
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  3. PCFLEA says:

    are the gpas you provided weighted or unweighted? meaning, did you elevate any AP grades by one point? if those are unweighted gpas, then thats pretty outstanding. For ivy league schools, id say the average gpa unweighted is around 3.8-4.0, then the weighted gpa is around 4.3-4.5. remember not to be too specific, and that you can only tell colleges so much about yourself on the applications, so try to the extra curriculars that colleges dont see too often. Two more things to remember are that colleges dont care whether or not it was your school that prevented you from rising to your full potential. just because you couldnt take certain ap classes doesn’t mean you are on par with people who were allowed to. Finally, be sure to score high on the SAT, colleges will determine if your grades were inflated immediately by seeing how well you did on the SAT.
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