My freshman and sophomore years are in the A to A- range, but my Junior year grades fell to a B range for all classes. I really regret that year, but in senior year, I took 3 AP’s and all honors classes and I have a A or A- in all of them. Can I send these midyear grades to the schools I’m applying to, to show them that I am capable of doing college level work and thus boosting my chance for admissions? Or can only the colleges request them?
Please reply. I am dying to know.
<p>Most schools REQUIRE mid-year grades if I'm not mistaken (there's a whole sheet for it on the common app), so I'd say go ahead and send them!</p>
<p>Most colleges reaquire a midyear report, so your school should be sending the first-semester senior grades.</p>
<p>Then how come there's rolling admission?</p>
<p>How come schools pick students w/o looking at midyear reports?</p>
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Then how come there's rolling admission?</p>
<p>How come schools pick students w/o looking at midyear reports?
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It depends on the school. If it's a school with rolling admissions, and you submit your application before the grades from the first semester of your senior year are available, then they would make the decision based on your grades up until the end of your junior year, I would think. If you wait to submit your application once the grades from the first semester of your senior year are available, then I would think that those grades would be taken into consideration.</p>
<p>A lot of schools that are mentioned on these forums don't have rolling admissions and do look at mid-year reports.. it all depends on the individual schools that you're applying to.</p>
<p>thursdaynext how sure are you about this?</p>
<p>I'm not an admissions expert, but I just kind of inferred that, since the applications that I've seen for schools with rolling admissions don't mention mid-year reports, then those schools must just make decisions based on the transcript that you send them. If that transcript was sent before your first semester senior grades were available, then those grades won't be taken into consideration; if the transcript is not sent until after mid-year senior grades have been added, then, in your case specifically, it would make your overall academic record look better. </p>
<p>Can you say which schools you're wanting to apply to/have applied to? Like I said, it depends on the school.</p>
<p>If you're extremely worried about it, then I would recommend calling those schools (the ones that have rolling admissions), and ask them if applicants ever send in mid-year reports as part of the application.</p>
<p>excellent idea thrusdaynext</p>
<p>i concur</p>