<p>In my freshman year, I slacked off in school and received 3.0's and 3.1's for my semester grades. This was because I wanted to pursue an art education. However, after the summer I changed my career goal and I still wish to practice medicine. I have been receiving 4.0's and 4.05's ever since the beginning of sophmore year. Do you guys think the admissions counselors will notice my true academic potential? BTW, my cum. gpa is now raised to 3.75 and I'll be a senior applying to college next year.</p>
<p>I don't know for sure, but you can pray that they might. I mean, admittedly if I were an admissions officer I'd rather go for the student who's been consistently doing 4.0s than one who may slack off again and lower his/her GPA. If you really want, you can include a letter with your application accounting for any bad grades you may have made in the past. :)</p>
<p>But I only slacked off because I did not think I would be applying to a traditional college. But now that I'm focused, getting A's is quite easy for me.</p>
<p>Even if you were applying to an art school, they're becoming really competitive, and are considering gpa and sat scores a lot more than in the past. So there's no excuse to slack off and justify it by saying you weren't applying to a traditional university. </p>
<p>Anyway, if I were an admissions counselor, I would definitely like to see an upward trend in GPA and stats. However, NYU is competitive enough as it is, and there are plenty of applicants who are able to maintain consistently good scores throughout HS. All I can say is, definitely keep up your grades in a rigorous curriculum, do excellent on your SAT and SAT II's, and participate in a lot of extraordinary extra curricular activities.</p>