<p>No way, I’m from Michigan too! Im guessing the “Providing free day care to underprivileged kids/ beautifying the city of Detroit” is Summer in the City? lol. I also like you stated Varsity Forensics</p>
<p>YES! Dude were you at the field trip yesterday?</p>
<p>liv4physicz, to answer your question, I think it depends on the person. Every situation is different and a low GPA at one school may be a high GPA at another school. However, I have noticed in general that people who had a large difference between there test scores and school performance with their test scores showing much more potential than their grades (often because of slacking off) did not fare very well in college admissions. Most of the people I know like this from my high school did not get into their first choice schools and a large number actually ended up at their safety schools (although this happened to other people too).</p>
<p>I’ve generally noticed that too. Do you know if those people’s GPAs were bad just because of freshman year, then got their grades up to par in sophomore/junior years? My grades are mainly As (I think a 3.84 UW) with only 10th & 11th grades, and I received all solid As (no A-s) the last 2 terms of junior year. Do you think this proves I’ve turned things around (rather than just maintained a constant A- average throughout all of high school, or even worse, had a downward trend) and they won’t think of me as lazy? In other words, how effective are upward trends? The source of my low-ish GPA is definitely freshman year.</p>
<p>I think upward trends are a completely different story. There were a lot of kids who had very significant upward trends in my high school (including myself) because it was very competitive and the transition from middle school was especially hard. A lot of the times I think this initial struggle makes people more determined to succeed and I noticed a lot of these kids did very well in college admissions, many getting into their first choice (me and at least a few others) schools like Brown for example.
What I was referring to before are kids who feel like high school is not worth their time and their test scores and essays will get them into school. It’s not a good attitude to have, genius will get you nowhere without hard work. It eventually catches up to people, although many people can actually go through college like that.</p>
<p>liv4physicz lol I actually haven’t gone to SITC since last year. I’ve been too busy with work/cross country conditioning :(</p>
<p>Poeme: if you don’t mind, what was your GPA? and I sure hope you’re right, because I really tried during sophomore and junior years! Looking past the number on the GPA, hopefully adcoms will see that. So you actually know of people with low GPAs but upward trends getting Ito competitive schools?</p>
<p>Jess: COME! Only 2 weeks left! At least come for Finale Friday. Oh and this week we’re going to the zoo!</p>
<p>For whoever asked, I believe that high GPA’s are more common than high SAT test scores. And regardless, you have to take school rigor into account when you look at GPA, whereas the SAT is standardized.</p>