<p>This Fall I will be high school senior. I decided to go to college by junior year. Even though I get 4.0s constantly (since junior year), my overall GPA is 3.15 (because I screw in my first two years of high school).
My Junior year marks the beginning of everything. I got a 3 on APWH. I took community college classes over the summer(2014) and got A's on all college classes, resulting in a 4.0 GPA.
I have sign up for 4 AP classes with half a day schedule (so only 4 classes for my senior year) while the other half will be attending a community college (2 semesters throughout my senior year). I know I can handle this.
But some applications start as early as Fall, so colleges will not see the rest of my academics, so will they consider that my junior year is the beginning of my succession? Like 9th and 10th grade were terrible (I didn't want to go to college back then) but they should really analyze me as a person. lol
What other things can I do before applying for the fall? Other than good grades. </p>
<p>If it was your first 2 years of high school that got you the bad grades, and you are getting high grades now, then you have a very steep upward trend that will prove that you grew more determined over time, so the academic part of your application isn’t hopeless. The thing is, not wanting to go to college during those two years doesn’t seem like a good enough excuse for getting bad grades, and I wouldn’t recommend saying that on the application. Do you have a more specific reason why your grades were bad during those years, or were you just slacking?</p>
<p>Have you taken the ACT? Colleges look at test scores and extracurriculars as well as GPA.</p>
<p>@splinshints bruh?? who are you to tell me that it is not an excuse. If I have to say I will because it’s true. I never thought that I will tolerate college work during my first two years, so i felt hopeless during 9th and 10th grades. And I did slack, it is the same thing.
Don’t come around here and say that it’s an excuse; I wouldn’t be making stuff for my future!</p>
<p>You tell him. </p>
<p>@barcakid39 what @splinshints is saying is true. Colleges won’t accept that as a valid reason, so unfortunately your first two years will be held against you. Im not saying its not true, but it won’t be a valid reason from their perspective.</p>
<p>@guineagirl96 I guess I will take that colleges won’t recognize or take the time, but splnshints didn’t have to assume that I was slacking or that it is an excuse…</p>
<p>It does not matter what we assume. It is just the impression the adcom will have as well. What you said is not really a good reason. Usually, poor grades in freshmen may be forgiven as some schools don’t even include that in their GPA recalculation. For those schools, your GPA would be around 3.36. If you keep doing well in the first semester of senior, you may bring that up to above 3.5. That should be your goal and your targeted schools admission range.</p>
<p>@billcsho thanks, and yea u right a 3.5 is about the highest that I can get if I maintain a max gap. Also, I did not know that admission officers include the senior semesters when calculating, I thought that it was from 9-11th grades.</p>
<p>@barcakid39, If you apply RD, you may send the transcript with the first semester senior grades.</p>
<p>OP, you need to seriously calm down. For the most part, everyone posting in response to your post is really trying to help you. You sound very defensive. You reacted very strongly to someone suggesting that you were slacking off. The fact is that you were not living up to your potential until it became meaningful to you. You had a right to slack. But it had consequences as you see now. Teenagers (and adults) have problems connecting the dots sometimes. Let it go and keep up the wonderful progress you’ve made. You will get into college. Shine when you get there because now you know how important your best efforts are to you, your loved ones and to the community. Su se puede!</p>
<p>@barcakid39 woooah hold on. I know it’s hard to tell one’s tone through the internet but I was in no way trying to say anything negative about you slacking. You might have read it in a really bitter, rude tone, but I was simply trying to ask a yes or no question, and I definitely wasn’t assuming you were slacking–if that was the case I wouldn’t have asked the question. To be completely honest, I am sympathetic with slackers and I am a bit of one myself. Also, the word “excuse” is generally used in a negative manner so I understand why you might’ve thought I was attacking you, but in its literal definition, every justification you could possibly give to explaining your bad grades can be called an excuse, be it a good or a bad reason. I simply meant that you need to have a stronger justification for those two years in order to make more sense to the admissions office.</p>
<p>there is a lot that goes into an application besides your grade point… ACT/SAT and EC’s are also important. You should post those so we have a better scope of the situation</p>