<p>I'm a junior right now, and I'm doing horrible in all of my classes.
I want to know if I can right my wrong before I apply to those schools next year.</p>
<p>This is what happened:</p>
<p>Freshman Year: (All regular Classes)
Ended year with a 2.7 cumulative GPA.</p>
<p>Sophomore Year (Half Honors classes, half regular)
Got a 3.5 for the year
New Cumulative GPA: 3.09</p>
<p>Junior Year: (ALL honors/AP) 1st trimester ends this Wednesday, and my grades are D, D, A, B-, A-, C. </p>
<p>If this trimester ends that horribly, which it likely will, will getting straight A's for the rest of the year save my butt, or am I pretty much f'd?</p>
<p>I feel like I'll be okay for Indiana as long as I do well (28+) on the ACT, but I'm really freaking out about Illinois...</p>
<p>Advice/comments/etc highly appreciated.</p>
<p>the upward trend from frosh to soph yr is good, esp with the harder courseload. however the D's this year arent gonna help you. I would consider getting a tutor, studying smarter (changing your studying habits to be more efficient, like turning off aim, facebook, cell phone, etc when your studying), or talking to your teachers about your weaknesses and how you can improve. mathematically speaking, a D should be easy to bring up a letter grade provided you learn the material. Just do your best and get involved in things that will relate to your future major (maybe debate for english, math club for engineering, etc) and you might have a decent shot</p>
<p>37 views and only one reply? you've got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>BBBBUUUUMMMMPPPPPPP</p>
<p>bumpppppp... come on.......... anyone?</p>
<p>If you're an Indiana state resident, you should get in there. If you don't pick up your grades, though, UIUC is unlikely.</p>
<p>I'm a Minnesota resident.</p>
<p>Indiana University is extremely concerned that you be in the top 50% (rank-wise) in your school--over 99% of all students accepted to the school fall into this category. They also are interested in whether you are taking tough courses--and if you are at least a 3.0 GPA overall.</p>
<p>Here's the primary problem with your application at Indiana University at Bloomington: this year applications are estimated to be up by at least 25% from in-state students (and applications so-far from in-state students are up by 32%). Out-of-state applications are up by 22% so far. Acceptance rates have gone down from 80% in 2006 to 70% in 2007 to 65% in 2008. This year that rate will probably drop to somewhere near 50% to 55%. The reason is that due to the bad economy, most students are applying to their in-state public school to save money on (in-state) tuition.</p>
<p>In my view,you are going to have a difficult time getting accepted with two Ds on your report card for this semester--in fact, I consider it very unlikely. You might want to consider applying to another in-state public like Purdue University or one of the other (non-flagship) Indiana University schools--like in South Bend, Fort Wayne, or Kokomo--and then transfer to Bloomington after finishing a year or two there. You could also consider going to a school in your home state of Minnesota and then transferring to Indiana after a year or two. This should save you a lot of money that would otherwise go towards out-of-state tuition.</p>
<p>The University of Illinois is also getting a lot of in-state applications, but not to the same extent as at Indiana University at Bloomington. Generally, it was tougher to get into Illinois than Indiana--but their acceptance rates have been staying at about 70% and will probably drop to no less 67% this year--meaning it is actually a lot easier to get into Illinois than Indiana nowadays. However, I still consider you a borderline admit--although a 28 SAT is in the middle of Illinois' acceptance range--and helps your application slightly.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Calcruzer, wow, thanks for all the info.</p>
<p>Illinois is actually my first choice so it's actually reassuring that you say it's not that hard.</p>
<p>I hate to add more, but do you think I could still have a shot at UMich? (I have excellent EC's)</p>