Will a low freshman year GPA ruin my chances of getting into a good school?Answered
Hi :) I’m a current sophomore in high school. Last year during online school I did pretty terrible in all my classes & finished the year with a 3.36 GPA.
Now that we’re back in person, I have around a 4.2 weighted GPA for this year so far. My total is a 3.5.
I have decent ECs & leadership positions in 2 clubs. I also took 3 honors classes freshman year, 3 honors & 1 AP this year, and junior year I’m taking 4 APs and 1 honors.
Will my bad freshman year ruin my chances? Or will a good gpa the rest of the years make up for it?
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Hello! I would just like to commend you on your hard-work and raising your gpa! Colleges look at your gpa as well as your progress and since you made ideal progress that certainly is in your favor!
Considering you seem to have an upward trend with your academics you will ruin your chances of getting into a good school. When colleges look at your academic profile they look at whether is the student doing better over the years, staying in the same range, or just declining. So congrats to you raising it! it takes a lot to be honest. Also your extracurriculars and your classes are important so as long as you're doing generally good you'll be fine getting into colleges. :)
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