<p>Oh no! Better go run a warm bath and slit my wrists since my life is over! Give me a damn break-_-</p>
<p>Then why are you yourself acting like your life is over</p>
<p>I’m just trying to see my GPA/where I stand so I know how much damage control I need to do. I lulled of last semester and my actions have consequences.</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Yes, you still have a chance to get into an Ivy League school.
[</em>]You don’t need to do anything to “make up for it” because honestly, your grades aren’t that bad and it’s only your freshman year.
[<em>]No, you probably won’t be able to make that a 4.0 again, but grades are just a small portion of your application. Top universities really don’t care about “top academics” as much as you think they do. I think most colleges will end up getting all of your grades, but it depends on the school.
[</em>]A 94% is a good grade; I can’t imagine how that would hurt your situation.
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There’s really no way to do “damage control.” Strive for those 4.0s in the coming years if you want, but don’t beat yourself up if that does not become a reality because that’s very hard to do. It’s much better to have strong ECs now and good essays/teacher recs/familiarity with interviews when the time comes for that stuff… </p>
<p>Most important thing? Have an open mind about college. I get that it’s of paramount importance to you to get into Columbia, but there’s nothing you can really do to guarantee your acceptance there and you seem far from doing anything that will guarantee your getting rejected. Moreover, there’s no guarantee that going to Columbia will lead to success and happiness, while you’re there or after you graduate.</p>
<p>You sound really worried from your original post but there’s really nothing to be worried about.</p>
<p>@The Atlantic</p>
<p>Attention</p>
<p>Hmmm. So you’re complaining that I want attention, yet you choose not to ignore this thread, thus granted me the attention that you chide me about. Your conclusion might be a bit faulty. You’ve outlived your usefulness ITT, assuming you had any in the first place. </p>
<p>P.S. Currently, you’re inducing a feeling of sucking the life out of people, so there’s accuracy.</p>
<p>I didn’t pick up on that felling. And something tells me you know exactly where you stand GPA wise, and are basically looking for people to tell you what you want to hear: "Don’t worry, about a thang, cause every little thing is gonna be alright… You have a bright future…you’ll do better…etc.etc.</p>
<p>But you taint your relevance when you ask us how much a 94 will hurt your chances, making you seem like a ■■■■■ or that you’re fishing for compliments.</p>
<p>So sorry if I <em>#</em>!@ you off, but I had to expose your attention seeking sham of a thread.</p>
<p>Asta La vista baby</p>
<p>You’ve been terminated</p>
<p>Dang I can feel the hate all the way around the US…</p>
<p>@TessVonBede: Listen, quit acting like you have to do summer school and take ten AP classes in the future or whatnot to have a chance to get into Columbia. First off, your grades are great, really. Second of all, colleges don’t usually look at freshman year grades as much…yes, Ivy-league schools certainly do, but they aren’t as important as soph/junior year. And since your grades are great, even more reason not to worry. So just buck up and do better next year.</p>
<p>I think it’s perfectly logical to think that competitive schools need top academics. I think it’s perfectly natural to know that a C isn’t a good grade. In my case, I think it’s fine to wonder how much damage this will cause. As you know, a 94 isnt a 100, which could hurt my GPA even more. Like I said my school doesn’t really have a counselor. If you werent trying to perform an amateur psychoanalysis, maybe you’d notice that.</p>
<p>But what’s on your transcript? The final grade (which isn’t a C), or each trimester grade? My school just puts the final grade on there, not every grade for each quarter. If they just put the final grade down, then they won’t know you got a C for the trimester. I don’t know how your school works though.</p>
<p>Tess your grades are good and I highly doubt you’d be penalized for them. Just make sure your SATs are up there.</p>
<p>Well someone is defensive…</p>
<p>A natural reaction against someone offense…</p>
<p>The thing that bothers me about threads like this is that the people making them can never see the big picture because they like to make themselves sick crunching numbers and worrying over little details. The big picture is that your chances at top schools are pretty low regardless of your grades, and it’s not as if you would be some kind of shoo-in if you had an unweighted 4.0. Accept this, and your anxiety levels will drop significantly.
No, a C is not an awesome grade (it would be a decent grade if there weren’t grade inflation, but there is). And I don’t like it when people act as if freshman grades don’t matter at all, because they count toward your overall GPA and they do matter at some schools, and if you can’t do well in freshman classes there’s no reason to expect you’ll do well in harder classes later on.
But there’s nothing you can do to change the past, and taking summer/online classes says a lot more about your privilege than it does about your intelligence. Take them if they interest you but realize they’re probably not going to have any extreme effect on your admissions chances.</p>
<p>@kypdurron
Speaking of things that should have been terminated…</p>
<p>A 79 with inflation? Yeesh. </p>
<p>This thread is currently pointless. Nothing more can be gained because anything useful from this thread has been extracted. OP is over analyzing. It’s your freshman year. Your average is still an A. Do better next year. </p>
<p>End thread, please.</p>
<p>Niquii, as my debate coach always says, repetition is teaching.</p>
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<li><p>It’s understandable for you to be worried if you don’t have a counselor to put things in perspective, but the only one who can tell you how a 94% will impact your transcript is someone at your school. Admittedly, I don’t know much about the various ways schools record transcripts as I was homeschooled and we just put end-of-class letter grades on the transcript, meaning you’d have a 4.0 so far by that method. I haven’t heard of a high school putting percentages on a transcript, but what do I know? I can speculate just as well as you can. Ask someone at your school. Ask the principal if necessary. Until then, you don’t know what you’re talking about and you have no reason to be upset.</p></li>
<li><p>Listen to halcyonheather. If you have a 3.0, you probably won’t get into Columbia. If you have a 4.0, you probably won’t get into Columbia.</p></li>
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<p>Yes!!! Halogen Is also a homeschooler!!!</p>
<p>We are coming in a small but growing number</p>
<p>Wow, this explains a lot.</p>