Crucial GPA, college questions that everyone needs to know!

Applying to College
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<p>These are some basic questions that I need heavy clarification on!! Thanks</p>

<li><p>So, do colleges look at your transcripts…or just your gpa? I know grade trends are important so do colleges actually LOOK at your grade trends from year to year( soph to senior) or do they JUST look at your GPA?</p></li>
<li><p>All colleges have different ways of matriculating their GPAs. Do most privates and elites( HYPS,etc.,) do an unweighted GPA based off of a 4.0 scale or do they consider it with a weighted GPA.</p></li>
<li><p>How should I calculate my GPA, right now, to know where I am in chance-wise? My UW is obviously worse but if I look at it in Weighted format, would i be deluding myself? </p></li>
<li><p>When they say that you need a minimum 3.75 for ivies,etc., is that UW or W?</p></li>
<li><p>Most colleges need two SAT IIs. Should I take 3 however? Do a lot of prominent universities require three? I thnk Princeton did…</p></li>
<li><p>Are independent/private college counselors worth it? Should I spend a large sum of money on one, because I am desparate and I fear my chances?</p></li>
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<li>Yes, they look at your transcript/trends.</li>
<li>Don't know, probably weighted</li>
<li>No</li>
<li>More like 4.0 UW.. Unless you go to an ultra competitive private school or have killer ECs. And before anyone jumps me I'm not suggesting 4.0 will get you in - I'm suggesting it's a prerequisite if you go to a crap public school/have lackluster ECs.</li>
<li>Take 3 if you can score well on all of them.</li>
<li>No</li>
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<li>transcript as well as GPA</li>
<li>Some don't recalculate at all, some do either W or UW. IDK what each does.</li>
<li>Unweighted is more reliable because schools have different weighting systems.</li>
<li>Who says that? There is no "minimum." Your app is more than one number.</li>
<li>Check the universities to which you plan to apply.</li>
<li>CC should do you just fine :-).</li>
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