<p>ok, so i willl be a junior next year, and i kind of messed up freshman and sophmore year bec. i thought they didnt matter. I ended up with a 3.6 at the end of sophmore year. Also out of six classes, four were honors/AP and 2 were CP classes. How much will my GPA hurt me, do i still have a chance of getting into stanford or at least a decent UC like Berekely or ucla? will it help if i get a 4.0 all junior year and first semester senior year? please help, and by the way this is my first thread on this site. Hooray!=)</p>
<p>Try to come up with an essay explaining why you weren’t doing so well those years.
Of course, thinking that it didn’t matter is not really a good excuse for them.</p>
<p>While lower GPA will definitely hurt for UC’s and other public schools (they tend to sort applicants by GPAs first then read the essays), some private schools look for souls</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>