Just finished my first year of college at UC Santa Barbara, I took 2 quarters of physics and 3 quarters of chem in my first year with the labs as my science classes. As of now my sGPA is 3.46 and my cGPA is 3.54, I did show somewhat of an upward trend in my GPA though, my first quarter was a 3.26 overall and my second quarter was a 3.19 but my spring quarter had me at 3.89. I haven't started volunteering but I will start researching with a professor this summer, I know I will have to work hard but is there anything else I should be doing? Thanks.
After first year of college how am I looking?
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Enjoy the rest of your college career, but remember to keep your eye on the prize.
Also, study smarter not harder.
Best of luck to you.
Also, study smarter not harder.
Best of luck to you.
Keep the grades up, get some volunteer/shadowing going (volunteering sooner than later, having two years of it looks better than it doing it your junior year and appearing like you are putting checks in the boxes, shadowing is more of a short-term thing, generally) and you should be just fine. You don't have the greatest sGPA on the planet, but you're well north of 3.0 and should be an excellent candidate if you maintain the level of performance you've show thus far. If anything, your grades so far just look like the typical "adjusting to being away from home and having to discipline myself to study" slump that lots of people go through. That 3.89 is a great jump up and I doubt the first two quarters will even get a second glance if you maintain.
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