Right now I am a High School sophomore with hopes of majoring in astrophysics as an undergraduate and plasma physics as a graduate. After college I want to work my way up through the universities as a professor eventually retiring to research.
Background:
Parents Divorced
Abandoned by father
7 Moves (4 during HS)
Socioeconomically challenged, income <10k per year
Caucasian Male
Rural Pennsylvanian town, Class size around 120 students
Sister has attempted suicide
Brother ex-prisoner
Academics:
My GPA is a 4.0, I have no class rank because I moved to my current school district in May after being homeschooled for my freshman year. My parents put me into home-schooling because we had to move 3 times in under two months so they did not want to mess up my academics.
My current school has only two AP programs, English and Spanish. Through the aid of books and the college board I am planning to take 12 AP exams over the course of my high school career.
(PSAT, SAT, ACT scores unknown but I studying in all my free time for them)
(The following are the most vigorous courses available to me)
Freshman: (All Honors) Geometry, English, Spanish II, Biology, Earth Science,
P.E., American History. A's in all
Sophomore: Honors Chemistry, P.E.(x3), Adult Living, Careers Exploration, Health, Gifted Academy, Pre-Calculus(Tested out of Alg II/Trig with 100%), Acc. English II(AP Track), Acc. Spanish II, Band, Academic Physics I, Entrepreneurship.
College Classes- Research Seminar Anthropology, American Government, Introduction to Psychology, Logic III: Scientific Reasoning, Introduction to Astrophysics, 5 total for 15 credits
Junior: Mainly unknown but major courses: Calculus, Acc. Engish III, Academic Physics II, Astronomy/Planetarium, Band, Gifted Academy, Compacting Acc. Span III and Acc. Span IV, plus 5-7 more solid, challenging electives
College Classes- 4 in first semester, 4 in second, 8 total for 24 credits
Senior: AP English, AP Spanish, Band, Gifted Academy, 6-8 more solid, challenging electives
College Classes- Calculus II plus 3 more courses in 1st semester, Calculus III plus 3 more courses in 2nd semester, 8 courses for a total of 24 credits, 63 credits planned.
EC: President- Physics Club, Enrichment Club, Science Olympiad, Math Club, and Section Leader in Band.
District Band, Region Band, State Band as 1st Baritone (Also play trumpet and piano)
Planned volunteer hours totaling around 1,200 hours by graduation at the hospital, library, community playhouse, Special Olympics, and local groups dedicated to keeping our town/state beautiful.
Tutoring Special Needs 6th-8th Graders
Summer Internship to Japan, along with 2-3 Summers of Astrophysics related research
Basketball, 3 seasons
Track and Field, 3 seasons
Cross Country, 2 Seasons
Honors(Not yet taken/placed):
Model UN, YSU Mathfest, Siemens Competition, Intel Science and Talent Search, National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, USA Physics Olympiad, USA Math Olympiad, Princeton Math Competition, USA Mathematical Talent Search, iTest, National Assessment and Testing Fall Startup.
Please note a lot of this is planned/my goals for high school.
Is there anything I could do to increase my chances? Also is this plan good, or should I scrap it and go with a different approach? Last, I know my freshman year will hurt, a lot, but can I still be admitted?