<p>Do my first quarter grades of senior year have to be sent in with my application if I were to apply EA?</p>
<p>I need to know this because my grades for these first couple months haven't been stellar; will they jeopradize my chances?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>To hijack this, do they matter if you apply regular?</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure the grades matter if you apply regular..</p>
<p>but will yale like, specifically ask for the first quarter grades? GR. the quarter ends next week, and I need to know whether I'm going to apply early or not. </p>
<p>the website doesn't say anything.</p>
<p>define "haven't been stellar". do u mean like B's and C's? then no, 1st quarter grades don't matter for EA....unless you get deferred and your semester grades r just as bad.</p>
<p>Of the 5 APs i'm taking, I have B's in 4 of them. I usually do a lot better.</p>
<p>Will they still look at the first quarter grades? for EA?</p>
<p>not unless your guidance dept sends them along w/ transcripts</p>
<p>are you sure? I heard that some schools request these grades for EA, and some don't. Does yale want them?</p>
<p>i'd like to know the answer to this question too...i have a C- in ap government right now but A's in every other class...there's not very much in my ap gov grade right now :/</p>
<p>I remember reading that, in occasional contrast to other schools, Yale evaluates your transcript from 9-12 (some, like Stanford I believe, tend to stick to 10-11). I personally think that your senior year grades would be extremely important - junior year is your big year, but senior year is another year where you are expected to have an AP/IB-laden schedule and work at a high level of maturity. Was your AP Bio teacher an unfair grader junior year? Maybe that B+ can be somewhat counteracted by an A in the first quarter of AP Physics, and vice versa if your teachers were a little easier junior year. It gives adcoms a wealth of information. Yale is essentially the place to apply for HYP wannabes; it'd only make sense for them to have some senior year information before they make an early decision.</p>
<p>However, I'm not quite sure.</p>
<p>i think the only problem with looking at quarter grades is that they don't appear on our high school transcripts, and it's early in the year because there's so little in our grades (i've pulled a couple of C's in a quarter up to A's by semester)</p>
<p>so that's why i'm worried about this :(</p>
<p>exactly. I know that my grades will be absolutly find by the semester. There's just been so much going on these first couple of months. </p>
<p>Does anybody know for sure? Because it will determine whether I apply early to yale or not.</p>
<p>You'd have to talk to your counselor. My school sends first quarter grades when they are released, even though this is in mid-November. You can also e-mail Yale (using an e-mail address not connected to your application, haha).</p>
<p>I can't remember where I read it but I am pretty sure that Yale requests 1st quarter grades and midterm grades- everybody's 1st quarter should be done by Nov. 1 or there about.</p>
<p>Yale doesn't request 1st quarter of senior year grades for the EA app, but if they automatically appear on the transcript your school generates, they will. Maybe you should request the transcript be sent very soon. Then work hard to bring your fall semester grades up. Of course, you will be submitting a mid-year and end-of-year report. Last year's Yale accepted students had panic attacks about exactly how badly you would have to do to cause yourself problems after an acceptance. The general consensus was a couple of B's or one C, not a big deal. Anything lower than that might spell doom. The acceptance letter is very specific about maintaining the quality of work you were accepted with.</p>
<p>Don't get yourself in an ugly position. You've worked to hard to let up now.</p>
<p>riverrunner, if you're still around, is that confirmed? Not trying to be attacking, but just genuinely curious. My GC's already sent all school parts of my application, including the transcript from 9th~11th and the recommendations. We're getting our quarter grades this week, and to be frank, I'd rather not send them as I think it might hurt my chances. If it was RD, I'd be sending it for sure, but since it's EA, can I forgo sending it?</p>
<p>I'm kind of in the opposite situation. My school's quarter just ended and I managed to get a 4.0 with a pretty heavy courseload. Not that, as you people have made clear, quarter grades are any sort of be-all-end-all, but I think the report would reflect really positively on me (one of the weaknesses on my transcript is that I didn't take math junior year, but now I'm back in Calc BC and, to all appearances, doing splendidly). </p>
<p>I e-mailed my counselor about this, because as far as I know our school has no set policy on sending quarter grades, and she replied that she'd fax an official report card if Yale would accept it. I think they probably will, so I'm ready to give her the go ahead. Does anyone have reliable information, maybe, that pertains to my situation?</p>
<p>I called the Yale Admissions office today, and they were very noncommittal. I was asked, "Do you guys want to receive my first quarter grades?" The response: "Yeah, sure. Let me get the fax number for you." Based on that conversation, I don't think that first quarter grades are mandatory at all.</p>
<p>In that case, I think that it might depend to your school. My college counselor at school said that Yale did request our quarter grades, even though they don't appear on the transcript, but that they could somehow hold out on sending them if they didn't look too good until we could bring the grade up. So, for example, our grades came out last week. I got a B in Calc because I completely bombed a test. So, in that case, they would wait about a week or two more to see if I am doing better and send the "better" grade as part of the transcript to "better" represent us, I guess.</p>
<p>But, from what I've read here, it might just depend on your school.</p>