<p>hey im a freshman and my 1st semester just ended...my grades werent very good...
Honors English- 96
Honors World Geog.- 91
Tennis-100
Arts-97
Spanish2- 96
Health-94
Honors Biology-88
Honors Geometry-88</p>
<p>... im concerned about my math and biology grade.. i will bring them up to an A next semester but what should i do about these 2 bs.. they are still going to be on my H.S transcript but is there any other way i can do something so they wont look very bad?</p>
<p>First, you have great grades. Second, colleges put little weight on freshman year. Third, are you seriously concerned?</p>
<p>i took advanced (spansish 2) spanish frosh year without a good middle school teacher, went in unprepared, didnt work hard enough, and got a b. i am retaking the class this (soph) year. bad idea, just live with the b's it'll be alright if u just work hard and dont let it happen much more</p>
<p>Like averagemathgeek said, colleges don't care much for freshman year grades. They realize that that year (and especially the first semester) is a transition to the high school environment. Still, B's are by no means "bad" grades. Also, even if your freshman grades are lower than what you want, colleges want to see an upward trend in your grades (ie. you do better as you get older)</p>
<p>with THOSE grades, the only way to cover them up would be to cheat and earn all 100s. yup, thats the way i see it</p>
<p>must be a joke</p>
<p>"First, you have great grades. Second, colleges put little weight on freshman year. Third, are you seriously concerned"</p>
<p>yea everything he said... Plus fourth colleges will not even see these semester grades and will only see the final grade you get for each of these courses at the end of the year.</p>
<p>One piece of advice RELAX... High School should be more than just 4 years of preperation for getting into a top college. (although to many people here that is exactly what it is). I reccomend leaving here and not coming back for two years. That is just my advice though.</p>
<p>"Plus fourth colleges will not even see these semester grades"</p>
<p>I don't know how your transcripts work, but at my school, the transcript includes grades from each semester. Even the self-reported coursework pages that some colleges have in their applications ask for semester grades.
But as I said before, theres nothing wrong with OP's grades</p>
<p>Tanman, sucks for you. Mine just have the 2 semester grades.</p>
<p>wow that really sucks. fro my school they only give one grade for each class, the grade you get for all 4 quarters averaged together. (sometimes the final is averaged in as well) And I am sorry if my comment was a bit harsh above as this is a high school life board heh, but it just annoys me how many people on this forum are obsessed with basing every aspect of their high school life from freshman year on what colleges will think.</p>
<p>in our school we have 3 6-weeks per semester and to get the semester avg. they add up all the 6 weeks avg. plus the finals and divinde them by 4</p>
<p>Don't burn yourself out. You're only a freshman and your grades aren't anything to laugh at.</p>
<p>Considering how close you are to an a...just a little more effort will get you where you want.</p>
<p>freshman year...are you serious?</p>
<p>lol...I was worry free my freshman year...</p>
<p>stop stressing over nonsense and enjoy the Holidays</p>
<p>haha thats right!!</p>
<p>and yes.. i was really close to getting an A.. the final screwed me up and that really sucks but ill try harder next semester...the irony in this thing is that i got 2 bs even though they were close to an A, they are still Bs :-(</p>
<p>I have a rule of thumb: you can get up to five B's in high school without it costing you at the top schools. It stands to figure that first semester/9th grade is going to be a tough transition semester for many students. No matter how you slice it, those 88/89's are always going to be a ***ch.</p>
<p>Don't worry. Of the thousands of colleges out there, you should easily get into all but a few dozen of them.</p>
<p>In the long run, nobody will care whether you earned an 89 or 90. So sit back and relax, knowing that you are a shoo-in for all but a few dozen colleges.</p>
<p>kid, join some clubs and do sth social. the books arent everything</p>
<p>story i heard over the (chinese)news:
some kid, ranked 400 in his high school, was given a full scholarship to harvard university. he was no academic genius, but he had a thing for inventions, patening <em>some number</em> of <em>some type</em> of inventions.</p>
<p>*sry cant remember details. my gpa sucked (3.59), so did my ecs but i still got into cornell</p>
<p>wow.. gh0st thats great.. what kind of clubs did u join and what else did u do for ec activities?</p>
<p>Just get a 92 in them next semester, college won't see grades by the quarter, they only see final averages</p>
<p>That's it, you're doomed, never going to get into Harvard with TWO 88's. You're so dead.</p>
<p>jk</p>
<p>Seriously, relax a little, freshman grades don't count much anyway. Work a little harder the rest of the way and you'll get into great schools.</p>