<p>If you’re really worried re-do your junior year.</p>
<p>Of course, the things you can do to become more competitive are strengthiening the rest of your application. Get higher SAT scores to balance your comparatively low GPA (which isn’t low in the real world, just on CC), get strong letters of recommendation that attest to your ability to succeed in higher level classes.</p>
<p>And don’t apologize for your GPA in your essay. It will make you sound like a whiny brat, no kidding. If you had a 3.2 or something, I could see explaining the circumstances, but apologizing and agonizing over a 3.76 (and even over a 3.5 unweighted average) will make you sound like a neurotic overachiever. I don’t think you need to explain ANYTHING with a 3.5 unweighted GPA! And like you mentioned, you don’t have any serious hardships – you switched schools, which is stressful but will be shown by your two different transcripts. You definitely don’t want to write “I just focused too much on extra-curriculars in my junior year” because they will wonder if you will do that in college. And if you had some psychological issues, that’s different, but it seems that you haven’t been diagnosed yet, so you’re just speculating.</p>
<p>Really, just chill. It’s a 3.5 unweighted average - that means ostensibly that this is a 3.5/4.0, which is a great GPA.</p>
<p>the GPA is horrendous in comparison to those of my overachieving peers. I hope I still have a decent rank, but probably not. I don’t even know how to work that AI thing correctly anymore… I got a 5, 6, and 8 depending on which stats I thew in.</p>
<p>i am in the same mess as you were right now, i did horribly on 1st semister of junior year, i don’t think there is any hope for me.</p>
<p>how do you re-do your junior year??</p>