School and gpa helppp?

so i have a low gpa and obv im not living up to the whole asian sterotype.....we have ap cles that are offered to us, and i effed up during freshmen year a bit taking an ap cl, and i took ap art history this year have an a, and i was gonna start gong through the history book for U.S next year to get sorta a head, just wondering how hard do i have to work to get abt 3.5/.8 gpa when i have abt maybe 2.65 or can i even reach a 4? with ap cles ?