<p>which GPAs do colleges look at? What if a student does ok during freshman and soph, ex. 96 and 90 respectively, and has an excellent average during junior year? Would that be good enough to get into a top-tier, a really good school?</p>
<p>They look at all of them, I guess. I am not completely sure because our school only takes the average of all the years...</p>
<p>GPA is one of numerous factors which go into the admissions decision. Colleges also look at test scores, essay, recommendations, extra curricular activities and the like.</p>
<p>yeah but... does doing very well during junior and fall term of senior kinda... cancel out the badness of the first two years?</p>
<p>Upward trends are nice...but steady high grades are best.</p>
<p>as we can see, i'm depending on an upward trend (:
anyone else care to contribute? if you've experienced this problem....</p>
<p>ba-bump bump</p>
<p>I don't have this problem myself, as I'm a freshman becoming a sophomore, but I hear seniors who had an upward trends get in. I think that if you improve your gpa in difficult courses, it is possible to go to top-universities, but then again, it could depend on other factors.</p>
<p>I don't think that the high grades really "cancel out" the previous one or two years, they look at everything. While it is best to probably get good grades from the start, if not, upward trends are favorable.</p>
<p>and does it matter that all my courses are either honors or AP?</p>
<p>Certain top public schools don't look at your freshman grades, FYI. </p>
<p>Examples: The UC's, Michigan.</p>
<p>umm....you're depending on an upward trend from 96?/90%?
so what do you have now, 105%?</p>
<p>no i haven't started junior year.</p>
<p>would i have a chance?
do colleges take junior year more into account?</p>
<p>I don't know what you're talking about. A 96 average is great.</p>
<p>But yeah, colleges do place more emphasis on junior year than they do the otehr years.</p>
<p>atrophicwhisper -- it is NOT true that UCs do not look at Freshman high school grades. It IS true they do not use those grades to compute "UC GPA". UC GPA is one data point used to determine eligibility for the nine campus UC system. However, Berkeley and UCLA, and probably a couple of other UC's, look at your "entire high school record", including freshman year, in making admissions decisions. It's explicitly stated on both websites.</p>
<p>As to your question, I'd rather have high gpa all the way through (e.g. 4.0 weighted). Short of that, let's call it 3.8 weighted, I'd rather see 3.8 with a rising curve (likely identical junior grades to the 4.0 already mentioned), then 3.8 constant, and lastly, 3.8 with a downward curve.</p>
<p>jetblackjello -- yes, colleges view junior year performance with greater emphasis.</p>
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<p>That's what I meant. Sorry I wasn't clearer.</p>
<p>atrophic: i had a 96 LAST year, and a 90 this one 0_0
thanks, though</p>
<p>thanks, all of you, though. so would I actually stand a chance?</p>
<p>so that means you're going down...</p>
<p>Not the best trend out of the two, imo.</p>
<p>aha, but my question was, what if I went UP next year?
good god, i know by now it's not the best trend.</p>