My Grades in High School Thus Far:
Freshman Year:
Semester 1:
A - Technology Internship
B - World Geography
B - Physical Science
B - Algebra 1
A - Teen Choices
B - Integrated Reading/Writing 1
A - Spanish 1
Semester 2:
A - Technology Internship
A - World History
A - Physical Science
A - Algebra 1
A - Culinary Nutrition
A - Integrated Reading/Writing 1
A - Spanish 1
Sophomore Year:
Semester 1:
A - Lit 115 (Dual Enrollment)
A - Art 1
A - Biology
A - Spanish 2
B - Geometry
A - Art History 111 (Dual Enrollment)
A - Technology Internship
Semester 2:
A - Lit 201 (Dual Enrollment)
P - Spanish 2 (Finished Online, as it was the only foreign language class my school offered, and I knew Spanish…)
A - Biology
A - Art 1
A - Geometry
A - COM 115 (Public Speaking) (Dual Enrollment)
A - Technology Internship
Junior Year (Current Year - Predicted Grade Outcomes)
Semester 1:
D - AP Physics
A - Art 2
P - Technology Internship (Not taken for a grade this year, excluded from GPA Calculation)
A - American Literature and Composition
A - Precalculus (MAT 121) (Dual Enrollment)
A - US History (Normal High School Class, but will be self-studying for AP)
A - Art History 112 (Dual Enrollment)
My School does not offer weighted GPA’s, so if everything goes as planned this semester, overall GPA will be 3.76 (all A’s following semester wold be 3.8 exactly. My ACT score is a 26 and my SAT score is a 1230. Will I be ok even after getting a D in AP Physics?
*I do not plan on going to Ivy Leagues or highly “competitives”, however my goal university is Regis University in Denver, Colorado or Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. I may apply to others as well. Will I be ok, or will I have to go to Community College? I plan on taking AP Econ, Dual Enrollment Stats, Dual Enrollment Chemistry, and Dual enrollment English Composition next year.
Despite what people here may tell you, you’re not doomed to community college. Don’t believe me? I’m a good example. My stats are 3.0/3.4 Unweighted/Weighted GPA and 1200 SAT; but here’s the kicker: I earned a “D” in geometry, spanish 3 (semester 1), chem (semester 2), APUSH (semester 1), and pre-calculus but I still managed to get accepted to a university. (UWF)
Physics will not ruin everything, you’ll be fine. Especially with the rest of your grades and test scores. Also, I checked the common data sets for both colleges you listed and your stats fall well within the range of their accepted students.
Get a tutor for physics. See the teacher and ask for extra credit. Say you’re ready to do what it takes to pull to a C -stay after school, do extra work.UAE the Khan academy website.
(Then drop and take regular physics second semester).
Your transcript is good (except for that D). You have a very good shot at UDenver and CU Boulder.
You’re also competitive for WUE colleges (look into then, check out the threads on them on this Web site.).
You will get a nice scholarship from Mesa with those grades/scores. And please don’t feel like CU or CSU are the only legitimate CO colleges. Mesa is the perfect place for someone who doesn’t want a large university…it has a huge range of majors, a super-nice campus and the benefit of being close but still far away. My daughter absolutely loves it.
Under course work, they require 2 years of science. Since physics is your third science class, you would still meet the minimums without it.
Under GPA, 47 percent of the class has a 3.75 or above, and about half are lower than that. The 25th percentile is about a 3.3 - if your GPA is below that, it would be a reach school for you.
You can look up Colorado Mesa and do a similar analysis.
Thank you everyone. I’ve pulled the grade up to a D-, but our grades only go in as a letter grade, so it will just show D. We don’t have normal Physics at my High School. Should I continue next semester, bust ass, and pull a C or a B to show that I’m no slouch and just dug into a hole early in the year? The rest of my grades this semester are immaculate…
Are you sure there’s no “physics” class at the college prep, on level, regular level?
Ask your teacher, and also ask whether there’s a chance you could get to a B next semester, or whether you should drop and take an easier science class.
God, I hate this country’s rampant grade inflation. Almost nonexistent at my High School. A straight-A student from a High School in Denver transferred and now he is a C and D student. :v
I would go to your guidance counselor and see if there is any science credit that you could take instead of this class. It doesn’t necessarily have to be physics.
I’m absolutely positive. I go to a high school of ~150 students. No Honors, No IB, 3 AP’s,~10 Dual Enrollment classes, and certainly no weighted GPA’s. AP Physics and Dual Enrollment flip "year-on-year-off. Goddammit, I’m perfectly capable of very rigorous courses, I’ve just grown complacent, lazy, and more and more depressed. I don’t measure my self worth by grades, but rather by if I’m doing an adequate job of doing what I feel is inherently correct for myself/reaching my goals. Which is why I am owning up to my failure and just may stick it out next semester and pull a much better grade. My question is whether or not it’s going to matter. Are admissions officers at my top colleges going to take some lightweight who took really easy classes over me even though I put in the requisite effort to get a B next semester and average my grade for the whole year to a C? Or are they just going to see that D as an irreconcilable measure of my inadequacy? I don’t need Physics for my degree anyway. Ugh, why did I do this to myself?
