I recently looked at my transcript and just found out my grades for my 1st semester of my senior year and I’m fairly concerned.
1st off my grades since 9th grade was an upward trend:
9th: 3.3
10th: 3.7
11th: 3.9
(All unweighted)
BUT MY 12TH GRADE IS CONCERNING. I took 4 college classes an honors class (I had one during my 10th and 11th grades) and 3 other classes that were required for me to graduate (Senior classes). So I had 7 classes a day, 4 college courses, 1 honors course, and 3 other courses (that can’t be considered honors) a day, since we don’t use the block schedule. We also don’t have AP or IB. Can you even guess what my unweighted was? it was a 3.0, but my weighted was a 3.9.
My friend claims that college classes shouldn’t have anything to do with my high school GPA and if that’s true then I’m confused because the only class (according to her) that should have counted towards my GPA was my honors class, which was an A. Is this true?
My school is a college prep if that helps any.
SHOULD I BE CONCERNED?
Most universities don’t take account much of your Official Transcript for admission. Because the deadline is far before your graduation. In reality you will be fine. Colleges want your unofficial transcript for admission. If vice versa they would have to wait after graduation to get application. Apart from that did you pass? If you get accepted to a college than you send in your official transcript (with senior grades showing your conflict) and they see you are low on grades, it is rarely that they will take away your admission. Thats why seniors slack off the last year of high school. But I am sure this applies to most schools, if you applied for let’s say an Ivy League than I propose than they would care. Plus it’s rigor coursework, it’s not like you took all academic and failed most of it. In my honest opinion you will be fine.
@Johnnieboy50 That’s a relief, I didn’t fail any classes (surprisingly), they were just lower than I expected and the class that I think brought me down the most was Latin and that was around an 80. It was my lowest grade…