<p>How do colleges look at your grades/GPA? Is it by individual class, semesters, years, averages...</p>
<p>If we don't do so well in a class, but get a exceptional scores on AP and SAT II tests, will that make up for the low grade in an admission officer's mind? After all, each school has completely different grading policies and whatnot; would SATs/APs set a standard for colleges to look at?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>they look at it holistically
of course if you have good grades and good scores it's better than getting bad grades and good scores
think about it as like an A in a class is worth +5 points and a 5 on the exam is worth +5 points. so if you had a B in the class but a 5 on the exam it would be 4+5 = 9 points. if you had an A in the class and a 3 on the exam it would be 5+3 = 8 points. of course it doesn't actually work that way but you see they take into account EVERYTHING.
hopefully more people who actually know things will respond; i'm just posting because this thread had 0 replies and that is sad.</p>
<p>They see your year grades for each class and your total unweighted GPA.</p>