<p>Our school district's fall semester ends relatively late; this year, the end date of the semester was in mid February and we just received report cards for the fall semester. D1 mentioned that one of the school counselors said that colleges end up not considering midyear grades from our school/district because they come in so late relative to the application season. </p>
<p>I'm going to find out if the other GCs can confirm this, but I am wondering how colleges handle admissions decisions for students from high schools where the grading cycle runs late. Are these students judged on nothing later than junior year? Do colleges wait for the midyear reports before making final decisions for kids who are on the bubble? Is this an advantage (for kids with serious senioritis)/disadvantage (for kids who are on an upward trend)?</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Some absolutely want to use midterm grades to make final decisions, and therefore they may even wait. After all, those decisions aren’t out yet, are they?</p>
<p>Depends on the school. For some schools, they may not care, for other schools, they may judge the rest of the application and then if they like it put it in a “holding pattern” to wait for the mid-year grades to give a final decision. It just depends on how much time they have to wait for the grades, and what their individual admissions process and schedule is like.</p>
<p>Many RD schools don’t really start the RD admissions cycle until after EDII admits are finished, which can be in mid-Feb. So I would think that most schools not on a rolling admissions cycle will consider the mid-year report, even if it doesn’t arrive at the admissions office until mid-late February.</p>