<p>My gpa is a 2.9 and i am a rising senior. What grades do I need to have to at least get a 3.3-3.5? thanks</p>
<p>I think a 3.3-3.5 is completely out of the question, even if you were to get straight As you would still not be able to get anywhere near a 3.3. A little over a 3.0 is more realistic and where do you plan to apply to?</p>
<p>A 3.3 is possible, if you get roughly a 3.7 this year.</p>
<p>Whether you can do it in time to apply to college…probably not possible.</p>
<p>EnKoduah, this is a question I’d give to my seventh-grade math students. (And Elleya is mistaken. A 3.7 would balance one year of a 2.9 GPA, not three years.)</p>
<p>Assuming that you have averaged 2.9 over the first three years, and that will take the same number of classes in your senior year as you did during the first three years, your GPA after four years will be (2.9*3 + X)/4. If you want a cumulative 3.3 GPA, you need a fourth-year GPA of 4.5; if you want a cumulative GPA of 3.5, you need a fourth-year GPA of 5.3.</p>
<p>To make matters worse, you need two semesters of 4.5 or 5.3, respectively, to accomplish that. College admissions will be long over by the time those second-semester grades are in the books.</p>
<p>You need to be working on a list of realistic post-high school options. You *will *have options, but the won’t be all the same options as students who are graduating with a 3.5 GPA will have.</p>
<p>Looks like it was math bringing that GPA down…</p>
<p>Try temple university, I know people with your GPAs that have gotten in.</p>
<p>I think Temple would be a reach for this poster without hooks. Maybe not an impossible reach, but a reach.</p>
<p>See item C11 of Temple’s common data set, pp. 8-9 here: <a href=“http://www.temple.edu/ir/factbook/documents/Common_Data_set_2011-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.temple.edu/ir/factbook/documents/Common_Data_set_2011-2012.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>Yes, there are some Temple freshmen with GPA in that range. But not very many. And I suspect many of the freshmen who do have those grades can dunk a basketball.</p>
<p>*Looks like it was math bringing that GPA down…
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<p>lol</p>
<p>Right now, you have 3 years of a 2.9…so</p>
<p>2.9
2.9
2.9 (it doesn’t matter if each year was a bit different) </p>
<p>to bring up your average, your senior grades have to also 'bring up" each one of those years…which is why Eleya is soooo wrong. Use Sikorsky’s equation in his post to figure things out. </p>
<p>if none of his makes sense to you, look at it in terms of money…if for each of your 3 years you earned $2,900 and you wanted to end up with an average income of $3,500 for four years, then you’d need to earn $5,300 dollars during the 4th year so that you could “put” $600 towards each of those first 3 years…and that would give you the $3,500 average.</p>
<p>That said…you have another problem. You apply to college when you don’t have a full year’s of senior grades…so at most, you’ll only have ONE SEMESTER of senior grades that will have to “improve” 6 other lower semesters. That isn’t likely going to happen to any real substantial amount.</p>
<p>What state are you in? </p>
<p>How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>What are your test scores?</p>
<p>Those answers will likely determine where you should apply and get in.</p>
<p>Alright guys, my bad, sheesh. Forgot that the OP had an extra year of 2.9’s dragging them down. Was drawing on my experience of going from a 2.9ish to a 3.3 this year with a 3.6.</p>
<p>I GET IT, MY MATH WAS WRONG. (not my strong suit either, lol…)</p>
<p>you can always go to a city college first…</p>