Are senior year grades considered during admission process?

Applying to College
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<p>For RD, the first semester grades are submitted. How important are they?
I have bad grades in 10 & 11th grades. I am hoping to show that I am a much better student.
Will it help at all?</p>

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<p>They will definitely help, however, ive heard junior year grades are most important. but if you had good senior year grades then it definitely wouldnt hurt to include them into the application! remember, stats arent EVERYTHING:)</p>

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<p>It’s hard to say anything very specific without knowing how bad “bad” is. But I don’t mean to ask you for those details.</p>

<p>In general, yes, senior grades do matter. But do they matter enough to make up for “bad” sophomore and junior grades? I don’t know. That may be a tough sell.</p>

<p>All you can do is apply and hope for the best, of course. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Definitely! In fact, I’d probably consider them the second-most important year for grades next to junior year.</p>

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<p>Any grades are important. Maybe you can write in your applications that you improve your grades over the years.</p>

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<p>Thanks eveybody… It is encouraging.
I should write somewhere in application that i am doing better this year.
In common application, we indicate what we are taking, but not how we are doing.</p>

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<p>You should ask your guidance counselor to write in his or her letter to colleges and universities that you’re doing much better academically this year. If you have any teachers this year who’ve also taught you before, and if they’d notice the difference between the old you and the new you, you should ask them whether they’d feel comfortable writing you a college letter. You can even explain that you’re looking for a recommender who can describe how you’ve changed your ways.</p>

<p>Any discussion of this change is going to carry more weight if it comes from somebody else.</p>

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<p>Yes. Your school has to send all transcripts when they are available. Also you have to write down your senior year schedule on the common app. so if you are challenging yourself this year colleges will see that.</p>

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<p>Here’s an example from Cornell: [The</a> Importance of Senior Year ? Part I | Undergraduate Admissions Office](<a href=“http://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2012/05/09/the-importance-of-senior-year-–-part-i/]The”>http://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2012/05/09/the-importance-of-senior-year-&#8211;-part-i/)</p>