<p>Are senior year mid-year grades viewed as equally as other years? For example, my junior year grades dropped quite a bit in comparison to my freshman and sophomore grades. If I can get over a 4.0 senior year, can this save me?</p>
<p>No, junior year is pretty much the most important. Your senior year grades can help you, but not SAVE you. A 4.0 GPA senior year isn't going to offset your 2.5 GPA sophomore and junior years. </p>
<p>Some colleges barely look at your midyear, BTW.</p>
<p>if you are applying to ucs senior yr wont even help you</p>
<p>i asked basically the same question and it probably won't help u that much. i no, i wished it would help me too, but it prolly wont. sorry to be the bearer of bad news.</p>
<p>I was under the impression it went:</p>
<p>junior year
beginning of senior year
sophomore year
freshman year</p>
<p>its jr yr, soph yr, and i am not sure which</p>
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junior year
beginning of senior year
sophomore year
freshman year
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<p>That's what I think.</p>
<p>oh.. well maybe i am confused with what UCs care about.</p>
<p>Since UCs don't see senior grades, for them it's just: </p>
<p>junior year
sophomore year
freshman year</p>
<p>When I visited Wellesley last month and talked to an adcom lady, she said that first quarter/first semester senior grades were actually <em>quite</em> important because they're the "most recent indicator of how you're doing," which makes sense.</p>
<p>Except for UCs, apparently.</p>
<p>This thread seems useful: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/435636-senior-year-grades-do-they-really-matter.html?highlight=senior+year+grades%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/435636-senior-year-grades-do-they-really-matter.html?highlight=senior+year+grades</a></p>
<p>Actually, UCs don't care about freshman year grades either. They just want 10-11th grades.</p>
<p>I don't think a senior year grade can completely offset anything.</p>
<p>fresh- 3.9
soph 4.0
junior 3.75</p>
<p>so you don't think an over 4.0 GPA senior year could save my drop junior year?</p>
<p>I think senior grades actually do help a bit in the sense that if you are on a equal standing with another person and are taking about the same classes and stuff- if you have really good grades sr year it might push you over. But like someone else said it's not going to completely break/make you (unless you like.. fail them all or something xD).</p>