<p>al6200:</p>
<p>Mid-year reports (senior year course selection and performance) is one of the most important parts of the academic review of a student's application. The mid-year reports are a record of one's most recent academic achievement and therefore is the best predictor of how a student will succeed in college. Therefore they carry as much, if not more, weight than the review of one's junior year.</p>
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al6200:</p>
<p>Mid-year reports (senior year course selection and performance) is one of the most important parts of the academic review of a student's application. The mid-year reports are a record of one's most recent academic achievement and therefore is the best predictor of how a student will succeed in college. Therefore they carry as much, if not more, weight than the review of one's junior year.
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<p>Thanks, that would make sense that the most recent years would get the highest emphasis.</p>
<p>Hi daniel, I’m a rising junior living in california and I am very interested in JHU. I was wondering how I would be able to compute summer courses taken for enrichment purposes (not because I failed) such as physics, calc, etc would be computed into my gpa for admissions, thank you.</p>
<p>LOL! Y!A and CC are two COMPLETELY different things! and the official answer is that they review every part of the transcript, but do not use freshman grades when recalculating. So in theory they do matter but not just as much</p>
<p>Hey, when I was a freshmen I honestly didn’t care about school and got a 2.667 but ever since then I’ve gotten straight As. How would that look on my transcript?</p>
<p>@swimfishie
They would not be computed into the statistical GPA we compute. However, as I have previously mentioned, the statistical GPA is not what we base decisions on. We evaluate rigor, course selection, and grades for all of an applicant’s transcript. You will need to make sure that you have a transcript sent for any summer work you have completed. </p>
<p>@exemplix
It would not look good. Though freshman year grades are not calculated in our statistical GPA that does not mean they do not matter in the review of one’s transcript. With a weak freshman year, applicants most have a significant and consistent upward trend in grades and rigor to be considered competitive.</p>
<p>But do you think a 2.7 to a 4.0 is a good upward trend? And for my.transcript I didn’t take the most rigorous courseload available but I definitely felt challeneged and worked for it, so how does that all come into consideration?</p>
<p>I do not answer questions related to one’s chances for admission nor will I respond to questions about one’s particular circumstances in terms of the admissions review. As I said previously, if one has a weak performance in their freshman year they will need to show an unpward trend over their next three years of high school. The upward trend will be taken into context of the student’s full application including their grades, their course selection from sophomore to senior year, the rigor of their courses, as well as all other parts of the application. Just improving from a 2.7 to 4.0 means nothing without the context of one’s entire application.</p>
<p>Finally, rigor is of utmost importance in the review of one’s application. The Admissions committee expects applicants to be taking the most rigorous courses available to them in their school. Rigor is not based on whether a student felt challenged in a course, but rather the level of the course taken.</p>