<p>I got a 2.3 GPA for my first trimester of Junior Year. Yippee.
Lots of AP's. Tons of EC's. A job. It was bound to happen.
D
D+
B
C+
A-
B-</p>
<p>Prior to this year, I had a 3.1 GPA (3.093 technically), and it will now drop to 2.9ish.</p>
<p>Am I epically screwed, or can I make up for this with stellar 2nd and 3rd trimester grades? </p>
<p>(I'm trying to get into mostly Big 10 schools)</p>
<p>Work hard the following quarters. What's more important? $8 an hour or six figures in the future?</p>
<p>Are trimesters counted or do you still have some time left before the 'final?'</p>
<p>If so, i'm sure those B's could easily become A's, the C a B and the D's C's possibly B's. </p>
<p>If your stuck with this, I'm thinking the most realistic school you could get in was a state university.</p>
<p>How to somewhat negate this? Write a college essay on how you learned that taking more then you could chew was wrong and you learnt your lesson. Don't get lower then an A for the rest of your HS career.</p>
<p>well a 3.1 wasnt very good before...</p>
<p>"well a 3.1 wasnt very good before..."</p>
<p>Shockingly enough, not everyone is as capable of getting a 5.1 as you. You're a very intelligent person, don't be a dick about it.</p>
<p>No, it's not the bitter end of your college hopes. If you can do better second and third trimesters and have good test scores and EC's, some schools in the Big Ten are not out of reach. However, I saw your excessively long list of colleges and believe that it is time to narrow down your list a LOT. Not to be a downer, but Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Duke are pretty much out of reach now unless you have some extreme hook.</p>
<p>The point is that the difference between 3.1 and 2.9 isn't huge. With a lot of hard work you can definitely fix this.</p>
<p>In Bulgaria we cant choose our APs and everyone learns the same ones .So dont complain about this.6 APs are nothing.I have biology,chemistry,physics,maths,literature,English,German,Bulgarian,psychology and philosofy,history,sports,arts,musics,computer sience
These are 15 subjects and my gpa is 6.00 which is 4.00 compared to the US system.The best grade in Europe is 6 ,the poorest is 2 ,the worst positive is 3 .</p>