How do you boost your GPA?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Current Schedule:
AP Spanish Lit (2yr course)
AP US History
AP English Literature
AP Art History
Physics (Regular)
Pre-Cal (Regular)
Psychology/Sociology (half semesters)</p>

<p>With my freshman, sophomore, and the first semester of my junior year, my cumulative GPA is 3.31UW. This absolutely sucks and I was very disappointed when I found out. I know that my freshman year really killed me. I'm hoping my W GPA will be a bit better, but that's only for ranking, so it doesn't necessarily make my UW look better. Plus, I completely bossed out my 3rd quarter this year. </p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Spanish Literature
AP Government
AP Environmental Science
AP Studio Art
AP English Literature
AP Calculus AB
Economics (Regular)</p>

<p>How would I be able to get my GPA up to about a 3.6 before I apply to any colleges?
Would I need to get a 100 in every class for that to be possible?
If you need any more info please respond.</p>

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<p>100 in every class? What?</p>

<p>Just get all A’s. Simple.
/thread</p>

<p>Just kidding. Um since you will be applying to colleges before your senior year is over, I wouldn’t expect a major change until the end of the year. But we don’t know how your school calculates GPA</p>

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<p>lolwut? 100 in every class? Just get the A dude/dude…et?</p>

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<p>4.0 is a 90 here, so as long as you can pull off As in every class, you should be fine. Getting good grades is all a matter of not wasting time (ex. spending hours of your should-be-doing-homework time on Facebook), not procrastinating, caring about and putting effort into your work, paying attention in class and taking good notes, and studying really well for tests/exams (although this list is very subjective and is different for every person, this is what I find works most ubiquitously).</p>

<p>What kinds of grades are you getting right now? I’m guessing mid-high 80s based on your GPA.</p>

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<p>^not necessarily. I procrastinate all day, don’t study or take notes, and get straight A’s.</p>

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<p>^That’s because you go to a school with 4 AP’s where half the kids don’t know what a college is. xD I kid, I kid.</p>

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<p>jeeeeeze y are the ppl on here so anal about GPAs ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>

<p>just try ur best to get straight As…but dont put too much pressure on yourself</p>

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<p>GASP you just dropped the atom bomb Matt.<br>
Banned for doing that MattNC. Yeah I just brought that to this thread</p>

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<p>ouchies. At least you get the opportunity, that thread was quite chaotic.</p>

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<p>I know right. I had to abort.</p>

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<p>@stef1a
I’m currently getting all A’s. My quarter average for the past 3 quarters has been 95+ With the highest ones coming out of my AP courses.
It’s just my 9th grade year killing me. AND my sophomore wasn’t so hot either. I am showing an upward trend though.</p>

<p>@eastafrobeauty
I’m so anal about it because it’s the only thing that is making my application look bad.</p>

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<p>Get straight A’s and take AS MUCH classes and electives as u can.</p>