<p>I take the most advance classes available to me at my school, I am around the top 5% or 10% at my school, and I have a couple of activities under my belt. </p>
<p>The real worry comes with my GPA and class rank. My GPA uw is a 2.68. Weighted, it's a 3.3, but that isn't great either. My class rank is completely wrong, due to the fact I'm a transfer student, and most students have more class/credits than me due to block scheduling. My counselor assures me that am I in the top 10%, and when compared to others with my gpa, I am ranked in the top 5% (most people use music classes to bump their gpas up. I haven't.)</p>
<p>All these explanations are nice and dandy,and my counselor with be sending two letters to all of the colleges I apply to (about my troubles with Narcolepsy freshman year/class rank situation, and her recommendation), but these are still major worries for me. </p>
<p>The colleges I intended to apply to seem like far off dreams, and well I need someone to be frank with me about what colleges I have a better chance of getting into.</p>
<p>My roster this year is:
Honors Trig
Honors English
Honors Physics
Honors Chem
AP US History
Honors Calc AB
French 3</p>
<p>Next year, I plan to take:
AP Psych
AP Chem
AP Calc AB
AP English
French 4</p>
<p>(the above was an example of my courses, just so you get a general picture.)</p>
<p>I think if you do very well on the SAT/ACT it could alleviate your bad grades a bit. Also, go for straight A’s this and next year to help even more. I don’t really know what else to tell you. There are colleges for EVERYONE though, just maybe not your favorite ones. I’m sure you will get in somewhere.</p>
<p>I came from a school that ran a 7 period day, full year courses. My new school runs a block schedule and semester classes (except for AP). So basically, kids have around 8 classes or more each year. I came sophomore year, so everyone had about 20 classes while I had 10 on my record. So, when calculating class rank, they have a higher advantage, so my counselor had to estimate. I then looked around my friends for someone who has a similar gpa, and compared. He was in the top 5%, and my classes that I had taken were worth more credits.</p>
<p>I’m sorry but this still isn’t making sense to me. I thought the point of a rank was to compare you to EVERYONE in your grade, not just those with similar GPAs to yours. Unless by GPA you mean number of courses or something like that.</p>
<p>definitely take AP classes next year, and kick butt on your SAT by studying A LOT - aim for over 2200 if you can, and your lower GPA will not be as detrimental to your college decisions. </p>
<p>apply all over - especially the state schools, but don’t be afraid to reach for the smaller private ones - GPA isn’t everything. You said you’ve struggled with narcolepsy - so highlight that in your college application - the challenges you’ve faced, how you overcame them, how its changed you today. show the positive and unique aspects of your life.</p>
<p>The issue is that I can’t be compared to the rest of my school. I wasn’t compare just GPA, I went off my grades, their grades, their level classes, and my level classes. Transfer students can’t really catch up to students that have been there since freshman year since the rankings/gpa/anything really goes by Grade X Credits. Since they have more classes, people who have a similar profile are much higher than me.</p>
<p>I actually don’t know what a “good” GPA is at my school, I would ask my friends in the top 20s to get a gist of great ones, but facebook is being weird.</p>
<p>Stop; breathe. You are not doomed. First, you still have lots of opportunities to increase your GPA. Second, colleges won’t just look at numbers to predict what kind of person you are. In fact, your counselor’s letters will also affect the evaluation of your grades. </p>
<p>Keep dedicating yourself and improve your grades; get the best SAT/ACT score that you can and enjoy your final high school years.</p>
<p>distraught, if this is your junior year, then you better try your best to get as good a grade as you can because most colleges only look at the grades of the 2nd and 3rd year, even though they also look at how difficult your classes are and what classes you are taking in the first semester of your senior year …</p>
<p>do your best and then just let it be, whatever will be will be …</p>
<p>So, uh yes. It was the weighted one, contrary to what I posted before. The 19th person in my class has a 93 or a 3.7. This cheers me up in an odd way.</p>
<p>^The fact that your school uses a 0-100 GPA changes everything. Don’t make simple conversions of your grade to a 0-4 scale and then compare it with GPAs of students from other schools. Keep a good performance and stick to a good class rank.</p>
<p>Trust your counselor about this. You aren’t the only student to transfer into your high school from one with a non-block schedule. Your counselor has worked with students like you before, and the colleges have seen transcripts of transfers like you before. Things are going to work out for you just fine.</p>
<p>Wait, isn’t the whole point of taking rigorious courses to show colleges that you are able to get a good GPA WITHOUT having easy courses (such as music, or more credits in this case) to bump it up?</p>
<p>^ The way I always saw it is a 93 is an A-, or a 3.7. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>Regardless, I don’t really understand this thread. Are you complaining that your courses are too hard so your GP is suffering or what? I am actually just trying to understand what’s going on.</p>