<p>I'm applying to Biomedical sciences programs in the fall, and I'm deciding if I need to refer to my GPA trend at all. Right now, I'm leaning towards no.
overall: 3.56
Major: 3.68</p>
<p>My freshmen year I got a 3.65 both semesters, and then sophomore year I got a 3.0 and a 3.45. My Junior I took mostly upper level major classes and got a 3.74 and a 3.94.</p>
<p>So I know overall, my GPA is in decent shape, however when I list my GPA from the last two years it comes out to a 3.51, which doesn't really represent my trend over the past two years (good in upper level classes, B's in intro). I come from a pretty good school, so I think that might work to my advantage.</p>
<p>Thoughts? Should I let it rest, is it worth mentioning? </p>
<p>you don’t need to mention in your SOP something that they can observe in just looking at your transcripts…save that precious word space for, well, your statement of purpose :-)</p>
<p>no, the numbers just show that you have good semesters and bad semesters. there isn’t anything to say about that as it’s barely a trend. it’s not like you start with a sub 2.0 gpa and gradually increase it to 4.0. that would be some story to tell. but in your case, no. unless you had traumatic experience which caused your 3.0, you should focus your SOP on explaining how unique and passionate you are. like aubstopper said, they can observe your gpa and your grades on your transcripts, you don’t want to waste your space on your SOP talking about how many A’s you got. same logic applies, you don’t want to ask a professor for LOR only because you got an A in his class because the only thing he can talk about is that you got an A in his class which is already shown on your script. most of the times SOP has very limited word counts so you should be short and precise about what you want to tell the adcom</p>
<p>on the other hand, your major GPA/ upper lvl GPA hopefully will be a lot higher than your general GPA if you continue your 4.0 semester. that’s good because a lot of schools do want to see your major GPA so you really got nothing to worry about at this point beside keeping up the good work</p>