Any advice you would give a sophomore at a non-target school for IB?

Hello y'all and just wanted to say love this community. I'm a rising sophomore at a non-target school and so far I have gotten a lot of the check marks off that you need to like grades, multiple internships, clubs, and networking. But I feel like I don't know what I don't know, and before my sophomore year I wanted to ask for some advice y'all might give someone in my shoes.

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