<p>I'm a senior student now, and my level of classes has always been the highest ones accessible at the respective grades. But during my sophomore and junior years, I had a lot of health problems and some lack of motivation, so I ended up with a D in English 3 Honors last year and total I have a rather unimpressive weighted GPA of about 3.7, and I'm ranked 102 out of 637 in my class. Hopefully I can offset the GPA with my qualitative essays and recommendations, and I'm currently making up the credit for that D in night classes, though I'm not sure if that will actually overwrite my grade.</p>
<p>I'm currently taking AP Calculus BC, AP English 4, AP Economics (1st semester), AP Government (2nd semester), AP Biology, and AP Japanese 4. If I manage to get all A's in these classes during the first semester, will colleges still consider them after I apply? I know admissions officers like to see improvement, but I've always heard this mentioned in the context of sophomore to junior year. Specifically, do colleges just throw out your report if the GPA doesn't meet a certain requirement, giving you no chance even if you show tremendous improvement with the same level of classes during your senior year?</p>
<p>Please be honest, since it's better I find out now so I can rethink my priorities.</p>
<p>OTHER INFO:
Dream schools: Yale, Stanford
Target schools: UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Wisconsin Madison
Safe schools: as of yet undecided</p>
<p>I scored 2230 on the SAT, and I plan to submit three SAT-IIs that I have scored high 700s or 800 on. I scored 4 on AP World History, US History, and Chemistry. I scored 5 on AP Physics and Music Theory.</p>