What’s your UW GPA? If your current UW GPA is 2.7 and you raise it to an UW 3.1, that’s the number colleges will look at. Weighted GPAs are difficult to compare because high schools weigh classes differently. As noted in your other threads, you need to find schools that are matches for your UW GPA. To do that, check each college’s common data set to see how important they rate GPA and test scores. Colleges that rank GPA as “very important” are going to want to see rigor and good grades. Colleges generally post the mid-50% GPA and test scores of their admits on their website. If yours are in the upper end of the range the school is match. If they’re in the lower end, it’s a reach. While some colleges might allow some wiggle room for special circumstances (health, family issues, etc.), I don’t think they make allowances for rigor. The goal of taking rigorous classes is to do well.
If you have C’s and D’s in English, math, and science I think that will be taken into consideration no matter what your GPA is. Colleges want students who will succeed. What other math and science courses have you taken? Which ones do you plan to take next year? I think colleges expect to see math through precalculus and the major sciences (biology, chemistry, and physics). Will you have those?
I have an A in Bio but D in chem. I will figure out my unweighted gpa but last year I raised my English grade final to an 80 and my geometry grade to a 90. I never had anything lower last year than an 85 besides chem. If I raise all my grades in core courses would colleges still see that I improved by taking AP classes?
You keep asking the same types of questions and just changing the name of the school. The advice you have been given across your threads is good advice and will not change.
You need to spend a few minutes and determine your unweighted gpa, for core classes. Use that number to find schools that are looking for students with your profile. The issue you have is you are getting advice for how to find schools and where to look for information that will be helpful. The answers you are getting aren’t what you want to hear so you change the school and ask again. There are schools out there for you, and chances are they will not be a T20 or T50 school or a state flagship but you need to be open to looking at them. You can’t do anything about being forced to drop Honors English because of poor grades or getting low grades in other classes. APES and a DE elective won’t make a college overlook that, either. You can do your best now, in the classes you are taking now, but that likely will not be enough to overcome those missteps. Your transcript will be viewed alongside those who took AP Chem and got an A or B.
You also should know that an EA or ED application doesn’t compensate for lower academic achievement. If your stats are not enough to get you in during RD, there won’t be any special consideration in an early round.
You are here looking for advice. Take the advice that has been offered, a few times, by very knowledgeable people who are taking the time to answer you.
The C and D grades are an issue. As are the Bs, for a competitive college. Period. The English grade and being asked to drop back from the first class is an issue for a humanities major.
CC talks hopefully about an “upward trend,” but reality is, that’s a rarer case where, say, a bright, dedicated kid got a B in some initial stem course, maybe a tough one, later hit it out of the park with an A in a much more rigorous course. (And a glowing LoR.) It “shows” the capability, as well as motivation. A relevant course, not any old AP or DE. This is NOT purely a numbers game. They want to know you ARE properly prepared for college and the track you want and look at your record-- not your dreams.
Adcoms look for a kid’s thinking level. That comes across in choices. The choice to take APES, known to be easy. Or sports mgt, rather than an academically enhancing core. The colleges OP named, all pretty competitive, will be looking for solid core performance, across the board. Kids ready to “hit the ground running.” Not hit or miss. Many top performing kids will use the schools OP named as their safeties. That’s the reality of the competition today.
There is hope, but it hinges on OP being realistic. And doing the leg work we all suggest. Your college possibilities, your responsibility to get off the dime, put in the right efforts. I don’t understand the hesitation. You’re just throwing out names and missing the work involved to earn a spot.
A 2.5 UW GPA will make you eligible for schools whose mid-50% GPA range for accepted students includes those with a 2.5 UW GPA. There is no exception for other things. Colleges won’t add a point to your UW GPA if you take dual enrollment courses, they won’t add one if you get a high ACT score, and they won’t add one if you take rigorous high school courses. Those things are expected by the level of colleges you’re talking about. If they did add points to UW GPAs that would be creating a weighted GPA for each applicant. Why would they go to the trouble of doing that when they strip weighted GPAs so they can compare the UW ones?
You’ve given no indication here about why your UW GPA is low. If it’s not due to special circumstances (health, major family financial issues, etc), your record will stand as it is. My advice to you is to make sure you have enough credits in all the core classes (math, English, science, foreign language, and history), and do as well as you can in them. If I were an adcom, I’d question any class that didn’t address a deficiency in the core. Computer science, environmental science, and sports management seem like poor choices when you have a C in English, a D in chemistry, and a C in algebra.
Do the best you can then find colleges that are a match for your unweighted stats. It’s fine to add a couple reaches, but you need to find your safeties and matches first.
As I said somewhere, Rutgers NB has a mid range of 3.6-4.1. It means anything below 3.6 is bottom quartile. Just getting a high ACT can’t make up for that.
And, when the top of the mid range (the 2nd and 3rd quartiles) is 4.1, it means the whole top segment of the class had 4.1 or better. That’s the competition.
The lowest quartile kids who get an admit may be some athletic recruits or kids with connections.
If you’re in NJ, Montclair State has a BA in classics. Even there, the average hs gpa is 3.22 uw out of 4.
I think it depends on what you chose to do instead. D20 couldn’t take any AP science class her senior year because the periods conflicted with her DE French 5 class and orchestra (which was the root of most ECs and an instrument she had been playing for 8 years). It didn’t seem to be an issue for her but FL is still a core class and she doubled up and took both AP social studies offerings for that year.
With your grade history, I would be more concerned that it would be because you didn’t meet whatever prerequisites your school had in their course selection process. Our HS, for example, states you have to have a 90 or better in a class to be able to take an AP version of the next one in succession. If your GC mentioned the scheduling difficulties, a college would find it more believable than you reporting it yourself.
If your GPA is under 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, then none of the schools listed would be realistic at this point. Right now you’re setting yourself up for a big list of rejections. Also, even if your parents could afford to send you to CA right now, that might not be true in 4 years. There are plenty of affordable schools that would be happy to accept your application in your home state.
In a word… NO. Sorry to be blunt but you just aren’t getting it. Less than 6% of students have an UW gpa of 3.24 or less, let alone a weighted one even lower than that. Unless you are a recruited athlete, or a Nobel Prize winner, you need to move on and find schools for students with your profile.
^this. OP, you are asking the same questions over and over again on different threads. Your GPA as it is now is not going to get you into most, and probably none of the schools you are asking about. You are trying to come up with some magical formula, “if” you take this class and drop another. “If” you get all A’s or “if” you can get a certain score on the SAT or ACT.
“If” is not how life works. You need to quit trying to think of how you can get into a certain school and instead DO the work to get into ANY school. Step away from CC and just do the work.
There are plenty of good schools that will accept your GPA. They may not be big names that you have heard of, but you CAN go to college. Go to some of the websites where you can plug in your stats and see what comes up for you. You might be surprised.