<p>Or do they just look at it to make sure you're in good waters / not rescind you?</p>
<p>Yes, they do, that’s why they ask for it.</p>
<p>when do they ask for it? i didn’t see it on the application. my finals are around jan 22, and semester grades aren’t until feb something.</p>
<p>do you think i could explain less than stellar GPA? it’s senior year, and after having taken 6AP classes over the summer, i lightened up a bit, settling for B’s in two classes and A’s in the other two (only taking 4 classes this year, since I exhausted my school offerings over the summer). i’m working on jumpstarting my mom’s salon business this year with heavy branding and marketing, so i put school to the side a little. honestly, i don’t get why we need to pull 4.0’s all the time, when we’ve already proven that we know how to learn, and that we can already pull 4.0’s…</p>
<p>will this affect my RD schools? I’m okay with UC’s, since they don’t look at it. I suppose I can’t really apply to RD schools if this is the case (judging me by my senior grades).</p>
<p>My older daughter’s GC sent her mid year to all of her RD schools. When she was WL, her 3rd quarter grades were also submitted to those WL schools.</p>
<p>anyone with an answer to my question?</p>
<p>i’m not a GC, but this is what i think.
if you grades from freshmen to junior year are excellent (3.8+/4) and your GPA senior year is 3.6-3.7/4) then it’s okay. but if you fresh - junior grades are 3.8+ and your senior mid semester GPA is a 2.0-3.2, then that might be a problem, especially if you’re not a spectacular applicant. so unless you are way-above qualified for your target school, i would focus and study more until your first semester ends.</p>
<p>some colleges do not pay attention to senior grades. the UC’s, for instance, apparently only pay attention to your sophomore and junior grades.</p>
<p>letting aside the UC’s since they are a world unto themselves, what oldfort is trying to tell you by post #5, is that yes, indeed, senior year grades are very important, and in case of being WL, doubly important. Most colleges look at junior year and first semester senior year the hardest.</p>
<p>Your senior first semester grades are looked at very hard. It’s the semester which is closest to when you go to college. Schools want to see that you could handle college level courses, at minimum to be prepared, therefore they want to see you are continuing to take rigorous courses and doing well. </p>
<p>Kids who applied to Michigan EA with upward trend are sometimes asked to submit first semester grades before they make a decision. All over CC, you could see postings of applicants wondering why adcoms are asking for their first quarter grades when they are applying ED/EA, the reason is because they are borderline and adcom want additional information.</p>
<p>Adcoms don’t just want to know you could do the work, they want to know that you would do it in college when there is a lot more distractions.</p>
<p>lame. grades aren’t real progress. i see grades as purely utilitarian: to show that a student can, on command, suppress and restrain themselves to get good marks. thanks for all your replies. i’ll stick to the UC’s… at least they have sense. as does yale law, which doesn’t even use elementary grades.</p>