<p>I know that midyears is one of the last forms filed for applications. I know that many schools don't require midyears. However, most of the top schools do require Midyear Reports. I want to know how important they are. Personally, I screwed up sophmore year, my average was high 80s out of a 100. In Junior year I started trying and started get high 90s as my average. This term, the one that goes on my Midyear Reports, I am anticipating an average around or above 100 (APs are weighted). Thats why I'd like to know just how important is midyear. Will top schools, like Ivies, Duke, JHU take midyears into serious consideration as a part of my huge upward trend, or is it of lesser importance than sophmore year grades? Will they overlook a bad sophmore year because of my upward trend and standardized test scores? Thanks for all the feedback.</p>
<p>anyone care to help</p>
<p>They'll see your first semester grades if you decide to sent them to them.</p>
<p>I have 2 As and 2 Bs!!!! I can't believe I got an A in APES!</p>
<p>ahhhh i am totally screwed, seriously. :(</p>
<p>ok...can anyone help?</p>
<p>From what I have seen, not very important at all. I have seen many people who say "I have a 3.5 sophomore and junior year but first semester of senior year I have straight As in 3 AP courses!!" Well, to tell you the truth, that barely helps you, if at all. I believe colleges look at midyears just to see that you're not suddenly failing all your courses (big red flag). I think people hype the "upward trend" way too much on CC. The overall GPA is much more important. Cornell has said that it doesn't even really look at midyear reports.</p>
<p>dam! oh well, getting good grades now def. wouldnt hurt me...</p>
<p>"Cornell has said that it doesn't even really look at midyear reports".
Where it is written? Thanks.</p>
<p>Depends on the schools. I remember reading in another thread that AdmissionsDaniel from Johns Hopkins said that midyear reports are very important.</p>
<p>Midyears can certainly help if applying to a less selective school and you had bad performance early on in ur high school career.</p>
<p>I think it's especially important if you have been deferred.</p>
<p>I'm sure your 3-year GPA is given much more weight than your grades from a midyear report.</p>
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"Cornell has said that it doesn't even really look at midyear reports".
Where it is written? Thanks.
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<p>It's obviously not written on its website or anything. I say this because a poster on CC last year didn't get his midyear report to Cornell in time, called up the Cornell admissions office, and they told him to not worry about it and that they don't really look at it anyway.</p>