<p>I'm a junior and I currently have a 3.4 gpa, however I'm also a full IB program student, will being in IB make up for, or make my gpa seem not as bad?</p>
<p>A few schools look only at rank and GPA and don’t pay much attention to rigor for admissions, but those are in the minority. Most colleges will consider both your GPA and also the rigor of your courses.</p>
<p>Okay, I feel as if this program brought my gpa down, I could’ve excelled with ap classes, do colleges acknowledge the IB program and its difficulty?</p>
<p>Yes, most highly selective colleges acknowledge the IB program’s difficulty. But again, they are going to look at your specific transcript in comparison to others within your school. So if your GPA is a 3.4 and you are in the top 5% of your school, then that clearly says something about the difficulty of your school. But if you have a 3.4% and there are 20% other students ahead of you in GPA at your school…</p>
<p>Agree with the above poster! If your school is particularly rigorous, and you perform well WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF YOUR SCHOOL, then your GPA will not be looked at in a negative light. A 3.0 GPA at a Top 30 magnet school is different from a 3.0 GPA at your typical, run-of-the-mill public school. & typically, colleges acknowledge the rigor of your HS curriculum and understand the difficulty of the IB program, so if you did well within the context of your school (e.g. top 5%), then your GPA should NOT be a problem.</p>
<p>Thank you! Within the program everyone is incredibly competitive and have really have gpas, the highest ranking students are all in the program, whereas in the general classes it isn’t as competitive as the program, so I’m not sure of how they would see my gpa, but thanks.</p>
<p>It also depends greatly on where you’ll be applying. </p>
<p>If you’ll be applying to Yale, Duke, Swarthmore and Amherst, your competition will be mostly students who’ve taken a comparably demanding course load and done better. And, honestly, that’ll be a problem for you. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if you’ll be applying to colleges and universities that are selective but not insanely competitive, then your willingness to take the most demanding courses you could, even if you couldn’t always earn A’s, may be seen as a good thing–an indication of intellectual curiosity or determination or something along those lines.</p>