<p>Hi
Im a rising senior</p>
<p>I heard that many schools like ivy see downward GPA trend as a bad thing.</p>
<p>However, if you got 4.0/4.0 in your fresh, soph year and got like 3.9 in junior year, does it still count as a downward trend? just curious</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>No! A slight variation in grades does not constitute a downward trend. That would be more like: 4.0, 4.0, 3.5. 3.3. Even then, with harder classes as you progress through high school, it is not uncommon, nor is it a downward trend to receive a couple of B's. Keep up the good work... you have a great GPA!</p>
<p>3.9. It's ok. (Hopefully) you're taking more difficult courses, and as you go up classes get harder and they would understand.</p>
<p>Unless it's like 4.0 to like a 3.0, 2.5..</p>
<p>So you got one A- instead of all As? I don't think colleges will see that as a huge problem...</p>
<p>No I actually got 2 A- s, A-s suck</p>
<p>Wait, I actually transferred from public to private school in my junior year.</p>
<p>My public school did not have A- and A+s (Therefore 4.0 max GPA)
but my private school did have A- and A+s (Therefore 4.33 max GPA)</p>
<p>does 3.9/4.33 look really bad...
Idont know how this will work out when i apply for college</p>
<p>bumpkkdddfdfgdgf</p>
<p>NO it does not. Are you honestly complaining about A-'s?</p>
<p>To be perfectly honest with you arinkk, the impression you give off — and I don't know if it's true, but this is how you sound — is that you're just trying to impress US with your grades and your high standards. You sound like you just want to hear "no, don't worry about it, you're a shoe-in for Harvard."</p>
<p>Now I don't know how it works at your school, but grading is so subjective where I go to school that there is often very little or no substantive difference between an A and an A-. Different teachers grade differently, and so at some point you just no longer have any control over the exact specifications of your grade. If you honestly think that you should never be getting any A-s, then your standards are unreasonable and unachievable.</p>
<p>By the way, perhaps you are taking classes that are too easy if you are getting these kind of grades. Maybe you should take some AP's next year...</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>this is what's wrong with cc</p>
<p>khaki,
Im sorry if it made you angry.. but i didnt mean to show off myself.</p>
<p>I was just saying 3.9/4.33 sounds obviously worse than 3.9/4.0</p>
<p>Anyway, again, I didnt mean to show off myself...</p>
<p>and yes, Im taking enough AP courses, thank you for advice</p>
<p>arinkk - My 2 cents.... Basically as I see it you have a 4.0/4.0 from your first two years of high school where that was the highest GPA available and now as you have ended your junior year you are at a private high school which offers a maximum GPA of 4.33. My question is how do they calculate your cumulative GPA that will be provided with your application? I would look at how your overall GPA that is being submitted compared with what your GPA would have been if it were calculated singly with either of the two school's methods. If your GPA would be different using either school's method, then I would approach the Guidance Councilor to shed some light on how your numbers have been affected by going to two different High Schools. Four years ago, my son had a note included by the GC because the HS got a new principal and over the summer, while students were out, certain students got AP's added to their junior year curriculum which was not previously allowed. All the other juniors did not know about the new opportunity and did not get to register and do the summer work. Therefore could not take the AP. That year when the guidance councilor was going to have to answer the question of difficulty of applicants schedule in context of what is available at the school, the GC had to add a qualifier indicating that, though S's schedule was not the most difficult taken, it was the most difficult schedule allowed at the time of his registration. Never saw the note, but S was happy with his acceptances.</p>
<p>I certainly understand your concerns. The mixed numbers could be confusing. Schools do have different GPA structures. DD (and S's) school has A-'s but not A+. D has 4.0/4.0 though has about a 97 average overall for her 30 classes to date (10/year, with maximum AP's and honor's classes possible). 4.0 does not really reflect what her grades are but that is our school's method and at least it is able to all be viewed in a single context. It is due to HS's different methods is that cause colleges ( I know UPenn told us this directly when we visited with son) to outright ignore your HS GPA and calculate it themselves using their own method. This method at least equalizes calculation differences. What it cannot equalize are the offerings of different high schools.</p>
<p>Good luck. Do the math and see if a note makes sense.</p>