is it possible to to get this GPA to above 4.3 by end of Junior year, any advice on which rigorous courses to take to increase this GPA.
smart donkey reply #1. If you can’t figure out the answer yourself, it is unlikely to happen.
smart donkey reply #2. The ones you can get A’s in.
We don’t know how many periods a day in your school schedule and how many classes you’re taking, nor do we know how your school calculates GPA and how it weights honors/AP/IB classes.
Check your school web pages or handbook for this information, and you’ll be able to make all the calculations yourself.
Also, colleges generally care more about unweighted GPA because there are numerous ways to weight classes. Some colleges will recalculate GPA using their own method so as to make a more apples-to-apples comparison.
Agree with above. Worry about unweighted unless you know for sure the “only” schools you will apply to accepted weighted scores. Not all schools do and will rescore your grades. So think an A=4,B=3 and so on and take out like gym class or others periods that are not main courses.
Also this is not a game in a sense of taking what “they” want to see. Take courses that truly interest you and do well in them. Your interests, passion is what they want to see. Take rigorous classes that you can do well in. Taking harder classes but not doing well in them proves nothing and can be a negative for the colleges.
Mantra for the HS student:
Do not think 'Every point I get off of a homework or test is a point away from going to Harvard."
Think: “I need to do my best, and there will be a college that is right for me when I graduate.”
Do not think “If I don’t go to an Ivy League School/Top20, I am doomed forever.”
Think: “No matter where I go, I can bloom where I am planted. I can get involved and shine.”
Do not think: “My life is over…the kid in my math class is taking 20 APs and I am taking 5. I will never succeed.”
Think: “I need to challenge myself, but only to the point where I can still do well.”
Coming from a incoming junior personally no. I started up with taking 5 honors and 1 elective freshmen year with a 3.8 weighted. Sophomore year with 2 AP’s 4 honors and 2 electives, finishing with a 3.9. It honestly depends on your school. For me the weight of each grade is different it’s not just if you get an A= 4.0. At mine a 95 in a honors would he weighted at a 4.0, a 94 at a 3.95, etc. It honestly just depends how your school weighs it but if they do it the more traditional way (what i started before explaining mine) try to take as many honors and AP’s as you can handle and it should be possible. Also, remember your GPA is not everything when applying to colleges.