<p>I’m a US student (Connecticut) and I’ve had a bit of a strange academic history. I lived with my mother for my Freshman and Sophomore years and during that time I got very mediocre grades- a lot of C’s, mostly. I moved in with my Dad this year, my Junior year, and recently got my first quarter grades back- my lowest grade right now is a B+ and I’m taking multiple honors classes, I don’t know what my GPA is exactly but so far this year it’s very high. I intend to continue getting high marks this year and next year, and I also want to take some AP classes next year. I have a solid set of extracurriculars that I’ve been actively involved with since freshman year (debate team and I did eurochallenge which is a macroeconomic club my freshman and sophomore year). I suppose my question is, if I really excel this year and next can I get into UBC in spite of my bad academic performance as a freshman/sophomore?</p>
<p>Edit: Forgot to mention when I moved in with my Dad I began attending a different school, my mom lived in a pretty wealthy area and my dad doesn’t really so the school I go to now isn’t supposed to be as good from what I’ve heard. Also I’ve done well on the PSAT but I don’t have exact numbers off the top of my head.</p>
<p>IDK if this is too late or not, but Canadian universities don’t look at you’re grade 9 or 10 grades. They look at the 12 grade year most and 11th grade a little. Canadian universities sort of figure that upon graduation, a student could be completely different than in 9th grade. Just a perk of canadian schools. I for one failed year one of high school in the us due to leukemia, and grade 10 was pretty rough too. My grade 11 i had a 3.95, same for grade 12, and i got into UBC, McGill at Toronto. I got into lots of US schools too though.</p>
<p>McGill does look at Grade 10 stats. </p>
@canadagoose don’t know if this is too late either, but thanks, I got in recently. Kinda funny to go back in time and see what I said last year.