Hi so I need some honest advice. Ok so this sophmore year I really slacked of in my classes and ended with some B+ and 2 C’s. My freshmen year gpa is pretty good, so I was wondering if you guys could help me answer If I will be able to be in the top 20 of my highschool? Or if you can give me some advice on how to raise my gpa this junior and senior year. Very much appreciated thanks!
Why were your grades bad in the first place? If you can fix that then your grades will rise. I don’t think CC can answer if you can be in the top of your class based solely on GPA.
First my grades started to go down because I had to be absent many days my second semester because of some issues and because like i said i just slacked of some work because of alot of pressure i had and i will fix that nezt year and second I’m just trying to get a rough idea from people who have been in the top of their class and their experience
It all depends on what type of high school you go to. If it’s highly competitive, it may be very difficult to get in the top of the class. From my experience, it’s the students that start off strong with As that are in the top 20. Don’t let this discourage you, though. Work hard the next few years so you prove to college admissions that you can pull off an upward trend.
@farmingprincess01 I agree that it depends on how competitive your school is. My school is very competitive but does not rank. I would say that the top 20 of each class which has about 560 total have flawless records. By this I mean that probably all of them have never even gotten a B along with the fact that they are taking as many weighted as possible. If someone were to get a C and B’s they would be automatically bumped down from that just based off of statistics. It all depends on your class size, how competitive everyone is, and how other people are doing in the same classes that you are taking. Best of Luck
Thanks for your advice and I’m not trying to be stuck up but I am a smart student, I’m in NHS, AP classes and next yr I got accepted into an associates degree program, but this past year I lost alot of focus and in my school honestly the only way I have seen that the other “smart” people get through is by cheating, taking pictures of the test, copying papers, etc. But anyways thanks again
My school isn’t that competitive I mean I go to a school were only the “preps” care about that I say that others would describe the school as part of the “hood” lol
Rather than subjective terms such as preps and hoods, let’s reframe this with actual stats we can use - is your schools considered lower performing (state ranking, performance index, etc)? what percentage students attend any college? what percentage are admitted to 4-year colleges? what percentage are on free/reduced lunch?
Typically, getting anything lower than a B kills any chance at being top 20; regardless of school, and at many schools even B’s lower the odds.
But the good news is that it doesn’t matter:
if you attend a high-performing school, what matters is being 10%, not the exact ranking.
if you attend a low-performing school, what matters is being top 3 (perhaps top 5) with a wighted rank.
So, “Top 20” has no relevance whatsoever for college adcoms.
Why was that a number of importance to you?
Thanks! That number is important because I want to make my family proud and all the pressure I have
It totally depends on your high school.
Just give you an idea, as a senior (class of 2016) of a "regular" public high school (college readiness index of 27), I took 10 AP classes and 15 AP exams, got all As but 2 Bs, weighted GPA around 4.25 and ranked 2 out of 500. 8 students in my class got straight As all 4 years, and at least 25 students got weighted GPA of 4.0+
High School Class Rank doesn’t matter as much as what you thought
College admission emphasize more on ACT/SAT and extracurriculars, and most scholarships only requires a 3.5 GPA.
Your family won’t care about your high school GPA anymore after you graduated (which is after 2 years), and they probably shift their focus to your college performance and future salary. (Think about it, after 2 years, you won’t have a chance to brag about your high school GPA/ class rank anymore, so is that that important?)
No one cares about your numbers when you get to work. They care more about how much information you know and how well you can apply them to real life.
The main thing is to figure out what went wrong last year, and stop doing that this year. Colleges do like to see an upward trend in your GPA. You are where you are…start working harder toward your goals…there will be a college for you.
Thanks alot for your advice it is of great help for me 