My freshman GPA is messing me upAnswered
I am currently a junior PSEO student and finished with a 4.0 GPA. My sophomore year was also a great year as well. I finished with a 4.0 gpa and a weighted 4.2 because I took two AP classes( biology and US History) I also have taken honors and passed with a A. However I have a 3.7 gpa because my freshman year GPA was a 2.9. I have worked hard to bring it up to where it is. I was going through a lot of mental health issues and just wasn’t focused and prioritizing the right things. My school also separates Highschool GPA and PSEO GPA. I don’t know what to do because I am a very focused and well rounded student now. Any advice for applications or if I should even apply to number 1 colleges with my highschool GPA being low? (Also my freshman year was Covid year)
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Many colleges don't look at freshman year when calculating GPA (such as the UCs). Was this COVID year for you? I'm sure colleges will understand and that many others (such as myself) have the same problem.
Depending on which universities you're applying to, you will be using either Common App or Coalition Application to apply, wherein you will have to answer essay prompts. You can use your comeback from a not-so-successful freshman year in the following prompts. You can start drafting your essays right away to save time from your senior year. The word limit is around 650 in both prompts.
Common App prompt:
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Coalition Application prompt:
Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.
Moreover, there may also be a prompt that specifically asks you to describe how COVID impacted your life.
Hope this helps.
You could also take the GED test and that could show them how far you've come - a lot of colleges will take a GED test score over a high school transcript/diploma
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luckily, colleges like Dartmouth like to see an upward trend. You did brilliant in the last two years, so I hypothesize that it will be good.