Sports Finals

Purple Pear asked:


I’m finishing up freshman year at my highschool and already worrying about college- haha. Well I’m just really worried about my grades. Because in Jr. High I got all A’s and had a 4.0 GPA but lately my grades have gotten worse. My grades currently are:
Art : A (95)
English: A (90)
Earth Science: B(86)
Global History: A (97)
French: B (85)
Math 2: C (72)

Is it still possible for me to get into a good college? I haven’t taken my finals or Regents yet so I guess the grades could alter. But I’m still really concerned about my grades. I know getting accepted to college is about more than grades but I’m on top of everything else… I play sports, I’m part of a lot of clubs and the school paper and do a lot of community service. But then also my dad wants me to be on National Honor Society, Honor Role and get into a schoool like Harvard or Yale! I’m just really stressing these grades. Can I still do better and get into a good college?

Dave H asked:


Hi am a sophmore in high school
am having a bit of trouble understanding english, because i wasn’t born here, i camed to US when i was 10, so now am 16, i can talk very well, but its still a big problem, it afffects my grades and GPA,

i tried my best and i gota 3.33 this quarter, and but when semiseter comes theres a finals, i **** it cause i never passed it, so it always brings down my grade.
will enough of that,
i can try and keep a 3.0 and above GPA through out high school, is that okay? and SAT test am not sure yet,

but am also in water polo, i’ve been in it since freshmen year, will it help me if i stayed until senior year? like 4 year sports in high skool?

because water polo is taking too much of my time, its making me do less HW and sleep in class. but i dont want to quit it just to get better Grade, you guys let me know if i can get into UCLA with the above, and by the way, i’ve heard that they need asians to be perfect at everything to get in, is that ture?