Low GPA junior year, slightly higher GPA senior year?

<p>I'm a horrible student, and my GPA is a 2.3. It's mainly due to really bad freshman year grades, so my grades are improving, but this year I'm doing great. I'm looking at As and Bs, and calculated that if the semester ended now I'd have a 2.5 gpa which looks WAY better than what i got going on right now. But do colleges even care? I'm guessing that when my school sends my transcript that they'll send my current grades too, but will it be factored in my GPA? Because a 2.5 looks so much better than a 2.3.</p>