<p>So I'm curious, how much do colleges care about improvement. Let's say there's a student who enters freshman year, has a nasty 70 average. Then Sophomore year, they get an 86 average. Then Junior year, they manage to get a 97 average. With good extra curricular, great recommendations, and a score of over 2,200+ on the SAT's, how do you think his chances would fare for getting into one of the top colleges. Like IVY or something.</p>
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<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>But really, how much a college cares about improvement can’t be quantified, only that it is probably something that is cared about. Some colleges don’t even consider freshman grades, so that would be to your advantage if you didn’t do so well back then.</p>
<p>Look at the admitted students statistics for any of the colleges you’re looking at (such as the common data set) to see where you lie in terms of GPA and class rank to evaluate your chances if everything else is good.</p>
<p>Lol, alright, thank you for the response.</p>
<p>One could get into a good college, but has even less than the normally miniscule chances of getting into a place like an Ivy because the majority successful candidates for Ivies have had strong grades throughout their high school careers. But for grad school, if you get excellent grades in college, you’d have as good a shot as any strong student has for an Ivy.</p>
<p>Lol, I’m personally shooting for a 4 year college with a major of Computer Science is all…</p>