<p>Some background info:
I did relatively well (3.7 unweighted with 4 honors 1 reg academic classes) but this year (Sophomore) I did worse (3.52 unweighted with 1 AP, 3 honors and 1 reg) so I am looking forward to "making up" the GPA drop in my sophomore year as a junior starting from September when school re-starts. </p>
<p>At the same time I heard from many people that junior year GPA counts the most so I was wondering if this is indeed the case....if it is I'd be very happy because if I stay focused / learned from my mistakes in my previous year, my junior year GPA (4 APs, 1 Honors, 1 Regular) would effectively "make up" the relatively bad GPA (in my personal standards) I got in the previous year.</p>
<p>I think they’ll look at junior year the most, but other applicants will have done very well all three years.</p>
<p>No, nothng like that because gpa is usually cumulative</p>
<p>^
Well, yeah, but they don’t just look at the number and judge you on that. They look at your transcript and actual grades.</p>
<p>It’s called an upward trend. By having better and improved grades in Junior year, it comes off as you’re even more capable of handling course loads. It helps to a point but the more selective schools may not be as impressed. Improvement is improvement though.</p>
<p>Well that may suck for me if it is an upward trend thing. I think I did kind of mediocre. Not all my grades are in yet but so far I have three Bs and a C+ though maybe my A+ in sculpture (!) will balance that out. C+ was in French. Waiting on physics and History but the final for physics was brutal.</p>