I am a first-generation college student in my family and I want to show my parents and the rest of my family that I can go to college. So I have used a few different programs and some were outside of high school. Over the summer of my junior and senior year, I did a SAT Prep Program called SWAG (Students With Academic Goals) and this helped bring my SAT score up and I learned more about college like the application process, tuition, housing, etc. I also did a different SAT program with Cal-Soap in the summer of my junior year which helped a lot as well. I believe my grades in high school reflect my academic ability because I work hard for those grades. I would like to have better grades sometimes but I try my
