impact of low soph gpa?

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<p>I wasn't sure where to post this but I was wondering how much weight colleges put on sophmore year. I know that soph and junior year are the two that they really look at. I had a 3.6 sophmore year due to personal issues and teachers that I dodn't like (not such a good reason lol). Is it possible to make up for this with a stellar junior year gpa? Right now it is a 4.5. My dream school is Princeton but I am thinking that even with great EC's and recs there is no way to comeback in time for ED next march. What do you think, is there any chance?</p>

<p>junior year:
AP Language and Comp.
AP US History
honors- Algebra, Chem, Spanish</p>

<p>PSAT (sophmore year) 200, hopefully it will go up when I take it this year</p>

<p>freshman gpa- weighted 3.74
sophmore gpa- weighted 3.6</p>

<p>EC's- president Model U.N. club (since soph.), Key Club publicist, work with Autistic children 8hr. a week
Summers- 2004 volunteered 30 hrs. at rec. camp, babysat autistic child every day 9-5 2005 Exploration at Yale (pediatric health, college writing w/ written rec.)</p>

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<p>anyone?...</p>

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<p>When we are talking about low... we're talking about 3.0 and lower.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I wouldn't worry. My GPA got a bit lackluster in junior year due to a teacher that HATED me and tried so hard to ruin my life...so I know how you feel. I'm not even making that up. This teacher was really kind of butch and she hated "girly girls" and I was the only girl in the Honors class who was popular, always did her hair, dressed well and hung out with the "cool" kids. So basically she tried her best to make my life miserable. She actually MADE FUN OF ME, in class. In front of my face. She made me cry like 10 times. IT WAS AWFUL! I worked my BUTT off and ended up with a B+ in her class when I really deserved an A.</p>

<p>My freshmen and sophomore GPAs had been close to a 4.0, but with that stupid B+ my junior one went down to a 3.7. (I had another B+ that I deserved... :/) Anyway, I ended up with a 3.9 cumulative, and my senior year is looking good, so I'm not too worried, and I don't think you should be either.</p>