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Applying to College
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<p>Hi, everyone! I was hoping I could get a little information on how it works when applying to college if you transferred schools while in high school.</p>

<p>Up until 11th grade, I was in the same school district. I attended public school, including high school for 9th and 10th grade. In 11th grade though, I transferred out of public school and enrolled in online schooling for health reasons.</p>

<p>I was wondering how it works for the GPA. My new school says that they only report the GPA I have gotten for their school and not for my previous school. I'm pretty sure that I have to request a transcript from my old public school to be sent to the colleges, but how do I calculate my overall high school GPA? Do I take my public school GPA and my new school GPA and average them together? Or should I look at schools that only fit my new school GPA? </p>

<p>I'm sorry this might be a difficult question to answer, but my public school GPA was a lot lower because I missed a lot of school and now it is much higher. I just want to know what kind of schools I should be looking into and to do that I would like to know what my GPA is.</p>

<p>Thank you so much for any answers!</p>

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<p>You will have to request a transcript from both schools you have attended. </p>

<p>Now I would imagine you wouldn’t just average the gpa’s. For example, if your average after 4 semesters is 3.0, then you add 2 semesters of 4.0, your gpa is not 3.5. Instead, it would be a 3.33. You need to average the gpa’s from each semester. </p>

<p>Good luck with everything! I’d also think that you could maybe get cut a little slack for your grades because it was due to illness. Apply to some reaches in addition to matches because you never know what will happen!</p>

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<p>My overall unweighted average for 9th and 10th grade is an 87 and I’m hoping that this year it will be between a 95-100. I don’t have access to my semester grades from my old school and my new school doesn’t do semesters. So how would I do that? </p>

<p>Thank you for all of your help. It is very much appreciated :)</p>

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<p>Hi. I changed schools and didn’t average them together. Many schools recalculate your GPA anyway so I just submitted both.</p>

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<p>Unweighted … weighted … 87 … 3.0 … 3.33 3.5
Since different high schools do it differently, different colleges calculate differently.
You should be looking for schools that fit with, among other things, your general school and standardized test performance (standardized tests are recognized by many as a better predictor of college grades than high school grades are).
So, with your two-year average of 87 out of 100 (I’m assuming) and a predicted two-year average of 97.5 out of 100, your 100-point scale GPA at graduation will be 92. If your standardized test scores are about the same as that, you should apply to most any state school or below, but not Ivys.</p>

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<p>^but they won’t be looking at her gpa from graduation. Again, an 87 from two years plus a 97 from one year is not a 92, it’s a 90.33. </p>

<p>I disagree that we can predict where you can apply base on your gpa. A 90.33 with a strong upward trend and an explanation for the slightly lower gpa would be sufficient for any school in some cases–given stron test scored and ECs. However, an ivy is obviously not a necessity. I’m just saying that we really can’t predict where you can apply based on your gpa.</p>

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<p>Thank you guys so much for your answers! You have no idea how much I appreciate it.</p>

<p>Here’s a little more about me:</p>

<p>These are the schools I really like:
-Brown University (top choice, ED)
-Tufts University
-Northeastern University
-Boston University
-New York University
-SUNY Binghamton
-SUNY Stony Brook</p>

<p>And here’s some information about me:</p>

<p>Location: New York
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White</p>

<p>GPA: I guess between 3.5 and 3.7? (school does not weight or rank)
ACT: hopefully 31+ (taking it in June with writing)</p>

<p><strong>I plan on writing about how my illness has affected my school performance in my essay</strong></p>

<p>Classes:
-Freshman Year: Science Research (AP Weighted), Honors Biology, Honors Global History (two year course), Honors English, Honors Spanish, and Algebra
-Sophomore Year: Science Research (AP Weighted), Honors Earth Science, Honors Global History, Honors English, Honors Spanish, Geometry, Photography 2, and Psychology
-Junior Year (transferred schools): AP Psychology, AP US History, AP English Lang, Algebra 2, Spanish 4, and Physics
-Senior Year: AP Government, AP English Lit, AP Economics, and Trigonometry/Pre-Calc</p>

<p>ECs:
Extracurricular Activities:
-Freshman Year: 40+ volunteering hours at various places and two science fairs (not competitions)
-Sophomore Year: School newspaper copy editor/editorials editor, two science fairs (one competition), poetry club, pre-med club, and 80+ hours of volunteering/tutoring in other various places.
-Junior Year (transferred schools, not many extracurricular activities available): Biology Club (as well as an editor of the BioClub newspaper), Photography Club, School Newspaper (writer, possibly an editor senior year), science competition (haven’t gotten results yet), and another 40+ volunteering hours. I also have a few small jobs, including head photographer of products at a local company.
-Summer: Went to a prestigious creative arts camp for 8 years and took a creative writing course at Summer@brown in 2011. I’m going to volunteer all summer this year.</p>

<p>I would like to major in either Psychology or English. I have a very strong interest in both.</p>

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<p>I guess I’m just trying to figure out my GPA to try and estimate my chances of getting into the schools I listed. I don’t want to apply to too many out of reach schools and I know that the ones I listed are harder to get into than most.</p>

<p>Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated :)</p>

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