<p>This is all unnecessary high school history career stuff. You can skip down to the arrows if you like.</p>
<p>Ok well I am a junior in high school this year. This being the first year that I really cared about school, my GPA isn't exactly in my favor. I don't even think I have the transcripts from my 9th grade but I damn near failed the year. Sadly, it was on purpose for half the classes. I was going to a super hard private school, ranked like 2nd in my state (didn't want to be there and failing was the only way I could get my mom to take me out; Hell, they only even let me in because of IQ). But 10th grade I got ALMOST decent grades. I still wasn't trying, I had just moved to public school so everything was a tonnnn easier. Well this year I decided I was wasting my life away, especially when I was a straight A student until eighth grade, so I knew I had the capability to do better and I just wasn't. <-- What a run-on.. So now, junior year, I am making straight A's (and one C but bringing it up) and going to join some clubs and things. Thinking a lot more seriously about college and what not. Here are my grades so far.
9th- E,E,E,E,D,C,
10th-D,C,B,B,B,B,
11th-C,A,A,A,A,A,A,A,</p>
<p>---> ---> --->So now with the questions.
1). I understand that colleges like to see steady improvement, but what exactly qualifies? I would of thought it would be like a 3.0 to a 3.3 to a 3.7. But would they still like to see a .6 to a 2.5 to a 4.0? </p>
<p>2). I am a really good test taker. I was the only person in my classes who would be failing the class then make the best score on the exams. So I know I can get a good grade on the SAT. On a practice one (full-length), I got a 1840 so if I raise that to, say a 2100 when I actually take it, how much would that help in admissions? And if it helps, should I take the Subect Tests and ACT to help even more? </p>
<p>3). Do colleges look at overall GPA first or each grade from each class first? I just have this exaggerated fear of an admissions person seeing one thing and throwing my application away.</p>
<p>4). This one is kind of complicated. When the colleges ask for your High School GPA, do they want your freshman, sophomore, and junior year GPAs averaged? Or do they want your freshman CLASSES, sophomore classes, and junior classes averaged? It would seem like there is no difference but there is. My sophomore gpa was a 2.5. My junior gpa wil be a 4.0 (or close to it). So that's basically a C+ vs. an A+. But the 2.5 was out of six classes and the 4.0 for this year, I'm taking 8 classes so 8 A+'s vs 6 C+'s is a little different. I'll actually be surprised if anyone knows the answer to this but it was worth asking.</p>
<p>5). Say I can't get into a decent college. Would it be better for me to go to an easy college that I can get into but don't feel like I should be there and switch to a better college 3rd year, or would it be better to just go to community college then switch over to a better college? (<---ugliest sentence I have ever typed) The reason I ask is because I know that I am going to major in some kind of science, and most sciences require grad school. So more from a second admissions kind of view, would two different normal colleges be better than a cc and a university or would it make no difference? </p>
<p>6). Out-of-state vs. in-state? I have searched this before but it is always different answers so I'm still going to ask. Is it easier to get into out-of-state? Because I reside in the VA and want to go to school in GA. I really want to go to Georgia Tech or UGA. Yes I know they are a bit out of my reach, but I'm hoping that being out-of-state might help (Along with being black, good SAT scores, decent extracurriculars and so forth).</p>
<p>That is all I can think of for now. Thanks for all the help!
and I'm sorry that was so long :(</p>