<p>Freshmen GPA- 3.4
Sophmore- 2.7
Junior (first marking period)- 3.4/3.5 </p>
<p>I do plan on getting my grades up so hopefully my junior average GPA will be around a 3.6/3.7. But have I ruined myself already with the terrible sophomore year? Do colleges care that after a terrible year, I improved a lot?</p>
<p>They’ll notice the improvement, but obviously you’ll have competition who got 4.0’s all the way through. What happened with the 2.7?</p>
<p>Sophomore year was very…turbulent (or the opposite, really) emotionally.</p>
<p>I went through the same thing. Sophomore year ruined my GPA, now I’m working hard to get all A’s junior year to show major improvement and commitment.</p>
<p>I can relate to this. Sophomore year I had a 3.0 (A’s balanced out Cs). It kind of depends on where you want to go. I had an admissions officer at Brown tell me, “Well, I don’t want to discourage you from applying. But C’s are pretty bad… You should find some other colleges that are okay with C’s…” Yeah, ouch. (I had 2 major surgeries sophomore year.) However, I have received 3 college acceptances already. Soo, it just depends on where you want to go.</p>
<p>That’s bogus. I only got one C in my life. And actually if I had the regular 100-90-80 grading scale it would be a B. I REALLY hope schools consider our tougher grading scale.</p>
<p>Well I’m not planning on applying to schools like Brown. Mostly I’m going for top OOS schools so…idk. A lot of schools (according to the info on College Board College Search) on my list only accept 10% of people with a GPA as low as mine so fgbdfjkgdfgdfg.</p>
<p>Maybe if you can somehow make up for it with SAT scores/ECs, then maybe. I kind of gave up on schools at the very top after I was told that. I mean, I had 2 C’s (each semester) for 1 year. It shouldn’t penalize me that much, but somehow it does… The only top school I’m applying to now is Brandeis. <em>sigh</em> she kind of destroyed my hope. I used to think if I explained (not in the essay), that I might have a chance. </p>
<p>But yeah, I understand your frustration.</p>
<p>Rachel and everyone else, just remember there’s always a chance to transfer junior year OR apply to your choice school for graduate school. :)</p>