<p>Adcoms are saying that Junior Year will "seal the deal" for your GPA Assessment in the admissions process, previous years and Senior Year do matter but at a very low ratio, your Junior Year shows us what you can really do when you are fully aware of the fact that it will make or break your gpa and admissions decision...how true is this?</p>
<p>Junior(/Senior) Year > Fresh/Soph Years?</p>
<p>Let's hope so. For me, that's like 3.85 vs. 3.5.</p>
<p>Does your school grade with A's and B's or give number grades like 98, 97 etc..?</p>
<p>I'm also worried about that because if so, students that have schools with number grades are disadvantaged....</p>
<p>We REALLY hope so because my D's GPA has jumped. Fresh/Soph - 2.75
Now (Jr year): 3.6 with 2 APs and Japanese 3. Big difference.<br>
How much do you folks think this will matter?</p>
<p>I don't know how elites view major improvement.....</p>
<p>calmac, that is some major improvement, I agree. Anyone in here that know if any elite colleges like improvement?</p>
<p>I'm hoping not... 3.2 GPA Junior Year as opposed to 3.5 Frosh/Soph. Of course, I also had 3 AP classes including Calc and Chem, but still... :/</p>
<p>I kinda hope colleges consider Weighted GPA more than Unweighted GPA... because Freshman & Sophomore GPA combined=(3.8 UW, 4.04 W). but Junior GPA (3.7 UW, 4.1W!!)</p>
<p>I think some colleges (e.g: Stanford) don't even consider Freshman Year.</p>
<p>From what I can tell, they don't numerically weight the grades, but they take your unweighted ones in the context of your schedule.</p>
<p>That's true. Most colleges I've heard don't weight but they do give heavier consideration to harder courseloads, so a 4.0 with no APs might not be as strong as a 3.8 with 5 APs.</p>