<p>What system do they use? What classes do they include and which do they not care about? What is my UW GPA in the eyes of Penn? Here's my schedule and classes: </p>
<p>Freshman:
English 9 CP: A-
World Honors 9: B
Biology Honors: B
Geometry CP: A
Intro. to Business (.5 credit): A+
Advanced Seminar: B
Concert Band: A
Instrumental Tech (.5 credit): A
P.E. (.5 credit): B</p>
<p>Sophomore:
English 10 Honors: B-
American History 1 Honors: B+
Chemistry Honors: C+
Algebra II CP: A
French I: A
Concert Band: A+
Instrumental Tech (.5 credit): A+
Health (.5 credit): B-
Driver Education (.5 credit): A-
P.E. (.5 credit): B+</p>
<p>Junior:
AP English Composition: A
AP US History: A-
AP Psychology: A
Physics Honors (AP not offered at the time, don't judge): A
Pre-Calculus Honors: A
French II: A+
Concert Band (.5 credit): A+
Instrumental Tech (.5 credit): A+
P.E. (.5 credit): B+</p>
<p>I'm applying ED to CAS, so my senior grades probably won't matter...</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how they recalculate your GPA (if they even do that), what matters is the holistic impression they get of you as a student. That’s why you have a regional admissions counselor who reads your application, so they have context in which to read your application. At my high school school, students had much lower unweighted GPAs than other schools because it was more competitive and they gave out few As (the unofficial valedictorian did not have a 4.0), but the school consistently sends around 40-50 students to Ivy Leagues/Stanford/MIT/Duke/UChicago. GPA varies so much school by school you really can’t compare it well at all.</p>
<p>In addition, I’ll venture to say that ED might be really rough for you. Your junior grades are clearly much better than your freshman and sophomore grades (well done on that), but there are just, well, half as many of them. I think if Penn is interested in you at all, they’re going to want to wait until they can see your grades from senior fall.</p>
<p>If I were your college advisor, I might suggest you apply to Penn RD, and try some rolling-admission or EA applications if you’re bound and determined to apply somewhere early.</p>
<p>I’m applying to Penn early because it’s my first choice. I honestly don’t want to apply anywhere else for ED/EA. Couldn’t they just defer me if they’d be interested in seeing my senior grades?</p>
<p>They could defer you, yes. They could also deny you, and then they’d never see those senior grades. If you apply RD, then you know they’ll see your first semester grades.</p>
<p>Really, there’s no way of knowing what you should do here. There’s no definite right answer. It may be that if you apply early, they’ll appreciate your willingness to commit. (I kind of doubt this, because I think Penn has more than enough applicants who are willing to commit, but I don’t actually know.) It may be that if you apply regular decision, they’ll think a little better of you because you’ll have more high grades to show them. (I kind of think this is more likely, but I don’t actually know.) It may be that it won’t make any difference in your eventual result either way. </p>
<p>I would think that if you didn’t get in ED you wouldn’t have gotten in RD. If they want to see your senior year grades they will defer you, but I don’t think one semester will be that dramatic of a change.</p>
<p>Yea. I know my chances are virtually zero. I ****ed up my freshman/sophomore year. But, I’ll attempt to transfer if I’m not accepted. I just really want to attend Penn. Hopefully my essays/ECs/SATs will strengthen my application.</p>
<p>maybe to add my own experience, my grades were all virtually the same throughout high school, and i was deferred…i assume it had nothing to do with seeing my senior grades since they were all consistent. i was accepted RD, didn’t send update letters or anything.</p>