I’m at the end of my sophmore year and I’m worried about my gpa. During my freshman year I got straight A’s along with 1 B which was an 88 but I ended the year with a 4.01 gpa. This year I’m in 4 honors classes but I have B’s in 3 of them and a C in the last one along with A’s in the 2 other regular classes I am in. My school is magnet school so each of our regular classes have a 1.1 multiplier to our gpa and our honors classes have a 1.15 multiplier. I know GPA plays a huge role in college admissions but does anyone know how low my GPA could possibly be and how badly it would affect admissions?
Seems like it would been somewhere in the low 3’s, which isn’t too hot. Going to a competitive magnet school may explain some of the seemingly poor performance gpa-wise, but it’s still probably considered low. If you pick it up junior year (the most important for colleges) you can offset it a little
If we are looking at unweighted GPA, usually an A- would be 3.7, B+ would be 3.3, B is 3.0, etc., so go based off of this as opposed to weighted GPA which uses a multiplier. Without knowing specifics about courses and grades and your school, it is difficult to determine what your GPA would be with the provided information. I would definitely work hard junior year to attempt to compensate for the lower grades for college admissions.