<p>I was lazy throughout my entire Freshman year. I was a brilliant kid, but sooo lazy.
I received 2 Bs and rest As both semesters</p>
<p>Next year, my sophomore year, I became interested in going to an out-of-state college. So, I tightened up on my academics and diligence.
I received 1 B and rest As both semesters.</p>
<p>Now, it's my Junior year. Everyone says this year will make you or break you for college. Since I'm scared crapless, I'm praying for Straight A's although I have AP USHistory and AP Bio as my first AP classes EVER...History is my only B so far(i'm like 1.8 percentages away from an A).
As this first semester ends, I hope to succeed in receiving straight A's.</p>
<p>Does anyone want to relate or share their Junior year in the past or so far?</p>
<p>I feel like I'm in a similar boat. I tried in school my frosh/soph years, but wasn't all that motivated and pretty naive. My brilliant plan was to get into a good college by avoiding the hardest classes in order to preserve good GPA. I felt like I'd risk my GPA if I wanted to take a harder class. However, just this past summer, I actually realized that colleges want to see you take harder classes, so I signed up for Honors/AP classes this year, for the first time. And it's awesome, not necessarily because it looks better to colleges, but because I'm having more fun in them and have met people that I hang out with in them. </p>
<p>So yeah, I've found APs to be pretty awesome.</p>
<p>I got screwed with a horrible AP Bio teacher, a terrible AP US History teacher (that was fired after the first semester) and a Pre-Calc teacher who decided to finish the book in March and move on to Calculus for the remainder of the year.</p>
<p>Your grades sound fine. Don't stress out if you get one of two B's, especially if they're in an honors/AP class. Try to focus more on the actual AP exam because that's where colleges can see how much you actually learned. Your class might be really easy or really hard, depending on your school, so the tests matter more since they are more objective. Besides that, don't forget about EC's and try to do things you actually like to do rather than what you think might look good.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I received a B+ in 1st semester of Spanish 2 and 2nd semester of Honors Geometry so my chance at a perfect 4.0UW is shot. However my weighted so far is 4.0, and I'm taking 4 AP classes this year (my Junior Year) so my GPA should shoot up a bit after this semester since I'm receiving all A's.</p>
<p>Period 0: Vocal Ensemble (A)
Period 1: SS&C (science) Honors (B)
Period 2: English 5-6 Honors (A)
Period 3: APUSH (C)
Period 4: Concert Choir (A)
Period 5: Spanish 3-4 (A)
Period 6: Intermediate Algebra (C)
Period 7&8: Golf (A)
Same grades 2nd semester, except I didn't have Golf.</p>
<p>Honors Anthro: B+ (A by end of semester I hope)
Spanish 3: B- (Probably can't get an A)
Chem: A
APEng: A
Calc: D+ (Probaby C or B by semester's end)
AP World: A</p>
<p>I just got my report card for this quarter...Physics (A), Ap Euro (B-), Chorus (A), Pre-Calc (A-), English (A), Psychology (A), Spanish III (A), Gym (A+)</p>
<p>just wondering..how is your schools grading system? For an A our school is 93-100, but I know others have an A is 90-100.</p>
<p>junior year in 5 ib classes and 3 aps (2 online) i got all As and 1 B.......
sophmore year i had 3 aps and 1 ib and i got 3 As 3 Bs but i barely did hw or anything...
freshman year i did nothing and got 5 As 1 B in 1 AP, 4 honors classes......
gpa comin into junior year 3.65 uw..5.05 w....should rise a lot this year</p>
<p>My grades as of right now..
AP US - A
AP Bio - A
AP English - A
intro comp (grad requirement) - A
AP Environmental Science - B (omg.. this class has got to be the hardest AP class ever)
AP Calc AB - i hope its still an A. I bombed a major test right before thanksgiving break due to sleep deprivation. :(</p>
<p>Junior year is so ******* hard.. severe procrastination + 5 APs = hell.</p>
<p>I really wanted to do well this year, because I slipped up last year a bunch (3A-s, 3 B+s)
So far, for first quarter:
AP Lang (A-, 90)-->I hope to get this up to an A, eventually
Math 12H (A, 95)-->want to make this an A+
French 4H (A, 95)-->want to make this an A+
AP Econ (A-, 92)-->want to make this an A/A+
Health (A+, 97)
AP Statistics (A-, 93)-->want to make this an A
AP Physics (A-, 93)-->would like to make this an A</p>
<p>my goal is to not have any A-s, because if I accomplish this it might pull up my GPA to top 5%. All I know right now is that I'm in the top 10% but I think its the lower end because my GPA went from 4.3 my freshman year to 4.1 last year, and I wanna push it back up a little. </p>
<p>But, I want to know....how much does senior year count for? Because I actually hate my classes this year---they're nearly all math/science, but in order to take the ones I want next year I have to take these. Next year though, I'll be in all classes I love save for Calc Honors, but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get very good grades.<br>
Do colleges count them in your GPA? or at least look at them?</p>
<p>Sorry guys that I haven't been keeping track with this topic. I thank all for replying so far. </p>
<p>BigB_85-Thanks, I wish the same for you buddy :)</p>
<p>rusoboy23-Sorry to hear the situation under your circumstances. At least you didn't have to put up with him after your first semester</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe- =( It happens to many. Most of my friends are going through the same. Junior year is just VERY difficult. Regardless how brilliant someone is, Junior year will pose a challenge to him or her.</p>
<p>emily4264-At my school only Honors English uses the 93%+ system for A's.</p>
<p>Thanks for all this perspective on junior year ^.^ I thought only a few schools limited AP to freshman year. In our district you can take prerequisites in middle school.</p>
<p>[edit] Lasko is replying to the previous version of my post, where I listed some of my current courseload. On a second read through, that post sounded a bit self-involved, so I changed it ^.^</p>