My grades arent that outstanding. During freshman year I wasnt able to keep my A’s consistent and even got some B’s and C’s. I had a 3.6 unweighted GPA which I am working on but its a pretty okay start for me… I was wondering if colleges will consider the consistency of these grades per quarter? (We have 4 quarters every school year = 4 sets of grades), or just the GPA?
In my limited experience…other than Senior year, just your year end grade is important bc they won’t have full senior year yet.
What does your transcript look like? Does it show all quarter grades or just one year grade for completed years?
Honestly, quarterly and semester can be useless bc lots of times there are few chances for a grade (meaning one poor one hurts more), so I don’t think most schools care to see them all.
Plus, even if it is on a transcript, many schools don’t use it, the transcribe just your classes and year grade into their own template for ease of review and I doubt they want to transcribe the quarterly “noise”.
They will see each class and final grade tho. And care. But upward trend is good too:)
@HRSMom it shows all letter grades but then theres a column for our average in each subject, which means you have to calculate manually for your cumulative gpa.
thank you, will try to improve since i have 3 more years still. 
In our HS the transcript sent to colleges just shows the year-end grade in each course. I think that is pretty typical but it can vary from school to school. You should ask your guidance counselor how the transcript is presented from your HS.
Most schools cut people some slack if your 9th grade GPA is less than stellar. They know that kids are still maturing, and especially the guys tend to need an extra year or two. Just make sure that’s an upward trend and you’ll be fine. The CA schools don’t even include 9th grade when they calculate your overall GPA.