<p>How many people see tremendous spikes in their gpa after their first year? </p>
<p>In my first semester I got 4.06 gpa truncated down to 4.0, but I got a little cocky this semester, took a max. schedule in a wide range of classes, and I have studied less this semester than in the first semester, even with six more hours of classes. My gpa might fall to under 3.9, which does not seem that big of a deal, but I want to go to a top tier law school someday and I can't afford to see my gpa drop under that level.</p>
<p>How possible is it to raise your gpa after your freshman year when you already have it pretty high, if that question makes any sense at all?</p>
<p>Just wondering, but how did you get above a 4.0? My A+'s and A’s here are worth the same - 4.0.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s simple math but since your grades stack up, the only way of “raising” your GPA after your first year is to simply maintain the perfect grades you had or get better grades (since you said it dropped, I’m assuming you got some A-'s??).</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m still a freshman but my first semester GPA was WAY lower than what I had expected it to be because they calculate minuses and plusses, which was something I wasn’t used to in high school. Now my second semester, with current straight solid A’s, my projected GPA will be .4-.5 higher than it was which is a significant increase!</p>
<p>If anything, it will remain the same or go down. There is nothing higher than a 4.0 (unless your school does that weird 4.5 thing). I also had a very high GPA my first semester but it has gone down since then. </p>
<p>And to get into a good law school, anything above a 3.5 is fine. LSATs count too for that.</p>