<p>I'm applying early decision to Duke, and during junior year my grades fell a little bit (still have a 91% overall GPA).</p>
<p>The deadline for application is November 1st.</p>
<p>Basically, if my first quarter senior year grades are significantly higher (95% and up) than my grade 11 grades, will Duke take that into account? I receive 1st quarter grades on October 16th I believe, so I will be able to submit them before the deadline like all the other parts of my application.</p>
<p>If you get first quarter grades in October then they should consider it.</p>
<p>But will it help my application? Will they factor it into my GPA?</p>
<p>I would have to say no, my first reason is that most high school transcripts don’t report quarter or semester grades, just course grades so your first quarter grades would be absent unless you listed them seperately in your app. Second of all, at least in my school, GPA is only changed every semester, so the one quarter worth of grades wouldn’t get tacked onto your GPA. I would just add your grades into the additional info section and explain the situation.</p>
<p>Duke requires you to send 1st quarter grades as an extra supplement. I just want to know if having very high grades there will help your application.</p>
<p>I don’t want to sound snooty or anything but, high grades never hurt an application, I doubt they would have that much impact, I mean thats one quarter versus 3 years of academics, a Major improvement might signal something but if you went from a few As and some Bs, to all As or mostly As, I don’t think it would help much.</p>
<p>Oh okay TheWikiMan that’s what I was looking for. My transcript is mostly As with some Bs, and I was wondering if a lot of high As would help boost my application.</p>
<p>I suppose the boost is only minimal. I’ll get the marks regardless :)</p>
<p>They definitely consider it, but I think mostly to make sure you arent slacking off senior year. It could really hurt if you get bad 1st quarter grades, but I think they are just looking for you to stay consistent with your past performance.</p>
<p>And no, GPA is only calculated at the end of semesters.</p>