Hello! So far, I have gotten pretty good grades throughout high school, maintaining a 4.4-4.5 weighted gpa and and a 3.8-3.9 unweighted for freshman, sophomore, and the first half of junior year. However, I messed up 2nd semester junior year and got 2 B+'s and 2 B’s (as mentioned in an earlier post, my school has a hard grading scale so the B+'s would be considered A’s at the other schools in my area). My current UW GPA is now a 3.74 
With all this being said, will that 1 semester of junior year ruin my chances at being accepted into my reach schools?? (Which are Notre Dame and Northwestern, Notre Dame being my number one choice). So far, I have been doing very well Senior year and plan on getting straight A’s for the first semester, which the colleges will see since I will be applying RD to most of them. If my first semester senior year grades rise as they are expected to, I will have a 3.8 UW gpa for the admissions process.
Everything else on my application is solid (ACT of 34, ec’s with leadership positions, volunteer service, etc.) but this gpa problem is freaking me out…
(Also I don’t know if this will help, but converted to a regular grading scale instead of the one at my private school, my gpa would be a 3.9)
And that’s my dilemma! I’ve been thinking non-stop about this gpa problem and it’s distracting me from fine-tuning my apps- any help would be much appreciated!!
