Do Colleges Care?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I was just wondering, do colleges even care about freshmen year? Do they add up all 3 or 4 years of your total GPA? Do they care about senior year? Does playing 10 years of piano help? Do sports and clubs matter?</p>

<p>Also in freshmen year i got an F in gym because my teacher hated me, will that effect colleges decisions? Do they look at specific grades? Do they care about AP's?</p>

<p>If i went to a hospital and helped out for a whole summer would that help me at all?</p>

<p>Please if u can answer at least some of these questions or give me advice on what to do
EX: How to get better grades, what to do for community service etc...</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>No, but college do care about basic reasoning. The answers questions like "Do colleges care about APs" and "Does playing piano for 10 years help" should be self-evident.</p>

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<p>Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.</p>

<p>Does that help?</p>

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<p>do they add up freshman - senior years of your GPA or only freshmen - junior?</p>

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<p>ugh. you are hopelessly clueless, so i'll try to answer this one seriously. HERE GOES!</p>

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some colleges discount freshman year when recalculating GPA; i believe the UCs do that. other schools take freshman year into account, but they do look at the years individually, and an 'upward trend' (i.e. improving your grades over the years) supposedly looks good (a phenomenon which i've never understood and half think is just a ploy to get people who screw up their freshman year not to give up hope, because i mean, i'm pretty sure that doing well consistently looks a bit better. but ah, it's too late now. carry on). but yes. upward trends are good. do this. </p>

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similarly, some colleges recalculate GPA with only 'core classes' or 'academic classes'; these schools would not take into account your P.E. grade. you might want to talk to your guidance counselor and have him/her write some kind of letter of explanation describing the circumstances of that grade, though, since Fs are sort of bad, no offense. i'm not sure the details as to how you earned that grade (or didn't earn it?); perhaps this would be impossible, but it's worth thinking about. </p>

<p>what exact things colleges see depends on how your school does transcripts, but it's pretty safe to say that they will see your grade for each individual class, and it's likely but not definite that they'll see your quarter and/or semester grades (my school, however, only records final grades for the courses). </p>

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yes, colleges like to see how you spend your time outside of school. dedication to specific activities... (i take no responsibility for the words that i'm about to type; again, this is all computer-generated) looks good. (oh my god oh my god. see this</a> post for more information on "looking good" and how important it is. it's an excellent post. comedy gold, really.)</p>

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i'm with JJJJ696949038 or whatever on this one. common sense is good. YOU CAN DO IT, YHSA2ND!</p>

<p>good luck. <cmd: shut="" down="" automated="" reply="" system=""></cmd:></p>

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Also in freshmen year i got an F in gym because my teacher hated me, will that effect colleges decisions?

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<p>Nothing will "effect" colleges decisions and if you continue misusing words, you'll be less likely to get in to some places. Generally, effect is a noun and affect a verb, but each can also take on the other use. Effect is a verb as in "to effect a change" affect is a noun as in "the sociopath had a flat affect." Use them well.</p>

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<p>technically, "effect" could be correct in that case. "my poor freshman year GPA effected my college admissions decisions: rejections! :(," i.e., the grades caused these decisions.</p>

<p>p.s. ily millancad <3</p>

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<p>Yes freshmen year counts as much as all other years.</p>

<p>Freshmen through senior year all affect your GPA equally</p>

<p>Yes that F in Gym will affect your GPA. Lets say you got A's in 7 classes and then that F....your GPA would be 3.5 instead of 4.0. Big difference!</p>

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<p>^way to steal my name</p>

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<p>^ i doubt his/hers is a Starcraft reference</p>

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<p>^ ofc. damn pro starcraft players using lame names</p>

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p.s. ily millancad <3

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<p><3!</p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>Did you get an F in gym because you ate one to many cupcakes?</p>

<p>Anyways colleges recalculate into academic grades like math, science, etc</p>

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<p>hahaha no, i just didn't sit in my right squad the first week of school which made my teacher hate me. So from then on we both gave each other attitude, she even elbowed me for no reason during warm-ups.</p>

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<p>Most colleges care about all four years, but some dont, like University of California's. </p>

<p>Hmm, I really think that colleges should have enough sense to understand the important and not important classes. Almost all schools require students to take PE. I think they should understand an F in PE.</p>

<p>Your PE teacher is insanely stupid and unfair, no offense to him/her. I didnt think getting an F in PE was possible, unless you ditch class everyday or if you try to fail PE. Even the laziest, slowest, unsportiest person wont get an F. Thats crazy. I feel bad for you.</p>

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<p>Wait so do colleges care about senior year? I thought you fill out your transcript junior year?</p>

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<p>They want to see that you won't just throw you're whole senior year out the window, I mean it's not like you stop learning senior year (well, you're not supposed to)</p>

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<p>How do you mess up gym class? Did you skip a lot?</p>