Does your Senior year grades affect your application?
The reason i bring this up is because i’m only going to have 1 or 2 Ap’s left next year (Senior), and so my GPA would probably drop after I take a few non-AP courses. When you apply for a college RD, which GPA does the college see? The one at the end of your Junior year? or…?
<p>The application deadlines differ from school to school, but you generally mail RD applications between the beginning of Dec and end of Jan. When you send in the app, you request the registrar at your high school to send an official transcript which will only show thru the end of junior year. Once your first semester grades from senior year are available, the colleges require you to have the registrar send the mid-year official transcript. Thus, they see both. In practice, they may try really hard to find the mid-year transcript or they may not. If you were an auto-accept or an auto-deny, they won't look thru the mail for it that hard since it is a busy time for them. They will try hard if you are a borderline candidate.</p>
<p>Schools look at trends and you want to be trending upward and not regressing. Schools read your application backward, with the Sr year being the most important and the freshman year being least weighty. </p>
<p>I have seen many schools WL our kids that go early and when we talk with them on the phone as to why the WL occurred, it is not uncommon to hear them say, "we want to have one more term to evaluate their transcript"</p>
<p>Now, I've known the University of Michigan to not count senior year at all and I'm sure there are a few others, but that is the very rare exception from my experience.</p>
<p>DItto to what Dufus said.</p>
<p>If you are applying during the RD round many schools ask for a mid year report which will have the grades from the first half of your senior year. Even applying Ed, it is not unusual for a school to send a full transcript up until your junior year and send your first marking period senior grades.</p>