do colleges weigh your junior gpa higher than your others?

Applying to College
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<p>hi, i understand your final total cumulitive gpa is most important.
but if i showed significant improvement my junior year would this help at all?</p>

<p>thankyou! :)</p>

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<p>Showing significant improvement is always good</p>

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<p>Some people take diferent classes and i dont think it would be fair.</p>

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<p>well i was pretty consistent with the course load, even taking harder classes later in highschool so…</p>

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<p>To answer your question: no, the adcoms don’t give greater weight to your junior gpa. </p>

<p>However, junior year is usually when kids can start to take electives and lean towards certain subject areas, so it tells them a lot about the student. By this time, HS is not a “new” experience, the way it was as a freshman or even as a sophomore, so it says what kind of student you are once the newness factor is off. </p>

<p>Some colleges, like Johns Hopkins, don’t include freshman gpa at all in their calculations.</p>

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<p>limabeans, how does JHU calculate your gpa then? I’m applying there ED and freshman year wasn’t the best in terms of grades.</p>

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<p>^Princeton doesn’t either. And I believe they just recalculate your GPA without the freshman year grades for their purposes</p>

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<p>Well that makes things so much easier! I went to an info session a couple of saturdays ago and they didn’t even mention this. =/</p>

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<p>so maybe some og the higher level schools dont include freshmen year gpa?
if thats true then that’s really great.</p>

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<p>Oh man. I did very, very well my freshman year, but my sophomore grades dipped one or two points (out of 100) because of the difficulty of courses. How do they look at that?</p>

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<p>idk friend, generally your overall gpa is most important.
im just hoping they take into consideration gradual improvement because freshmen year was really hard for me both academically and socially so i didnt do as well as the later years.</p>

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<p>I think most schools would rather see a significantly harder course load and one or two point drop than keeping those one or two extra points but in slack classes</p>

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Princeton and Stanford, I knew. And apparently Johns Hopkins, too. Though they will <em>see</em> them, and they do contribute to your class rank.</p>