<p>how much do you believe it is possible to raise my GPA from a 3.5? I'm in my junior year, looking to do some last minute bumping. I'm currently taking two AP courses, one honors, and two regular courses (all but one of the advanced courses offered; the advanced course I neglected to take was AP Physics, which has no pertinence to my interests/prospective majors). Next year I intend to take 5AP courses and one regular course, again all but one of the offered advanced courses. If I was to get all A's in these courses, which I believe is very possible as my gpa has been dragged down by a few less than choice grades, how would this affect my GPA? Also, will colleges note that I took a plethora of the offered advanced courses? Thanks!</p>
<p>colleges don’t look at senior year grades at the time of application. they’ll only see the rigor of your courseload. the only way to raise your GPA as much as possible is to finish this school year off with straight A’s.</p>
<p>what scale are you using? is the gpa weighted to account for those AP classes?</p>
<p>and yes, colleges feel it is an obligation to look at whether or not you challenged yourself as much as possible in your environment. this means they look at your participation in extracurriculars, volunteering opportunities, internship or job opportunities, and, perhaps most importantly, advanced courses your school offers… or so they say…</p>
<p>the current GPA accounts for previous AP courses I have taken. as far as extracurriculars, I have a LOT of community service/charity stuff under my belt and a couple of sports. I’m trying to ascertain if I’d be able to get into a pretty decently ranked college with the extracurrics and gpa, if it was to improve.</p>
<p>Unweighted, you can get it close to 4.0, but never perfect. Weighted GPA, which is looked at as well as your school’s AP offerings, varies. Mine is a 6.8 weighting with A+ in Ap equals 6.8; A+ in Honors = 5.8; 4.8 in CP…You can get some crazy numbers. Assuming you have 32 courses throughout high school, this calculation is unweighted and lets assume 3.5 is just freshman and sophomore years. That means that you can get a max of 3.75 in unweighted GPA. Not bad at all! AP courses will help. I was just accepted to princeton, and I can tell you that GPA means little compared to maximizing performance. I got A+'s in all my courses, but I’ll admit that we only have 3 AP courses in the entire school. We are a small school. I had to go online to get AP Bio! and AP Chem! As long as you maximize your opportunity and IMPROVE, you are still in the runnings for Ivies, provided you have everything else in the package.</p>
<p>Congrats! I wish you well! My brother applied to Princeton last year but didn’t get in. 
Now he goes to UT Austin and is planning to major in Comp Sci</p>
<p>Congrats to your brother! UT is a great school!</p>
<p>@PrinceDonTiger –*I’m going into the second semester of my junior year at the moment. Does this change your calculations at all or no? I’m not going to rely solely on my gpa to get into the schools I want, but I know it is a decent factor and am trying to bring it up at the last minute. Congratulations on your acceptance to Princeton, that’s huge!! May I ask what your SAT score was? Feel free not to answer. :)</p>
<p>@Caboose619 –*Thank you for you kind wishes! I’m not quite sure what to say I will and won’t get into, because people get into amazing schools with gpa’s lower than mine and less AP courses. Ah well, hopefully they’ll notice!</p>