Are the grades for the first half of senior year factored into cumulative gpa in admissions?

Applying to College
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<p>I understand that most schools do send a mid-year report. However I was just wondering if doing well at the start of your senior year can help your chances of admission.</p>

2

<p>I’m sure different colleges handle the gpa calculation differently. But they are going to look at and consider Sr fist semester either way, for the most part. Both the schedule and the gpa.</p>

3

<p>For RD, yes.</p>

4

<p>Only if you apply RD. For EA and ED, they only look up to junior year at the time of making the decison</p>

5

<p>When it comes to including it in your GPA, it varies by college, even for RD. You need to check with the college.</p>

6

<p>It depends on what is on your transcript by the time you submit it.</p>

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<p>^^ Agree. Most high schools send transcripts to colleges in October for EA and ED and in December for RD. If your high school is on the semester system, your first semester senior year grades will often not appear on the initial transcript sent (as the first semester usually ends in January), but will appear on the mid-year report. If your high school is on the trimester system, often grades will not be ready when your high school sends the transcripts in October for EA and RD, but will be ready when they send transcripts in December for RD.</p>

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<p>Colleges do more than look at your GPA as a single number, they evaluate all of the individual grades on the transcript, unless you happen to be applying to a formula school, which is how admissions are determined at many state schools. Senior year grades will do little to move your GPA up if you’ve been strong throughout HS, even a 3.5 will move little with a 1st semester 4.0, there’s just not enough weight there to move the needle. Every little bit helps, of course, but don’t expect that one great semester is going to suddenly move you into elite school territory. Usually, 1st semester grades are more of a check that you’ve been continuing prior trends and aren’t tanking, or you continued an upward trend you established in junior year.</p>

<p>Finally, don’t buy into the CC myth that if applying ED/EA, schools don’t check on midterm/mid-semester grades. They can and do all the time, they just don’t tell you about it. They just ask the GC for them.</p>

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<p>Even if your GPA doesn’t change. schools consider your first semester courses and grades for RD applications.</p>