Exactly how big a role do senior grades play during admissions?

Applying to College
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<p>My cumulative GPA excluding senior year: 3.75 (noticeable upward trend)</p>

<p>As a senior, I extremely slacked my first semester-it is probably the most prominent drop. Here are the classes with the corresponding grades.</p>

<p>Pottery C
AP Physics B C+
AP Biology B+
Sociology A
Pre-Calculus A
AP Language B</p>

<p>Question. Will these grades become the reason I become rejected from such schools?
University of Pittsburgh
University of Wisconsin
University of Washington
Northeastern University</p>

<p>Question. How lenient are MOST colleges with senior year grades?</p>

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<p>The most important grades are the Jr year grades plus the Sr first semester, for most colleges. You are looking at public schools which I guess are going to be numbers driven. Go to collegeboard.com and see how you stack up with the average of admitted student grade midpoints.</p>

<p>I would have avoided the C’s, but that’s hindsight now.</p>