<p>I lived in France from age 7-16, so my 9th and 10th year grades don't have Honors or APs since those don't exist in France. Therefore my GPA isn't high when it is cumulative (2.9) but if you look at my Junior year of HS it is 4.1. And my senior grades are looking the same so far.</p>
<p>I'm applying out-of-state.</p>
<p>I took 2 AP exams last year: Psychology and French, and got 5 on both.
I am taking AP European History this year, and will be taking the AP Test for it, and other than that i'm taking ALL Honors classes.</p>
<p>Subject test:
Literature: 640
French Language: 800</p>
<p>I'm the photographer and web designer of my school newspaper, I babysit and do french tutoring, I do community work for the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity, but have only done so since about one/two months. I play the piano and do portrait photography. I've been in clubs such as FBLA and the French Club and have also been a lead actress in drama class.</p>
<p>My essays have info about my living in France, the culture and traveling experiences I had (I traveled throughout Europe a lot), and in them I tried to show how motivated and dedicated I am to my education, even though my 9th and 10th year grades are pretty low, I've improved so much and have practically all A's and B's in my classes now since Junior year. And also how passionate I am about life in general.</p>
<p>I want to major either in French or Psychology.</p>
<p>UW only looks at your unweighted gpa, so weighted grades for what would be ap classes are irrelevant in that particular area.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest with you, your GPA in france is incredibly low for admittance to UW. Your gpa you listed for your junior year is weighted, so it doesn’t tell me much unless I know your unweighted gpa. </p>
<p>An upward trend in grades is a good sign, I don’t know if it’ll save that 2.9 gpa however.</p>
<p>Luckily the UW doesn’t only look at gpa…you’ve volunteered a lot which is a huge plus. I would focus on that</p>
<p>The unweighted 4.1 is probably 3.8? I’m not sure yeah…
Yes the cumulative GPA worries me a lot…especially since they dont take counselor statements, cause my counselor explains the low GPA in it.</p>
<p>Yes classes were very different and more challenging, there are no MC tests or anything like that there and you do not choose your classes you take the same general ones each year they just get harder. The system is just entirely different and the grading scale as well (0-20)</p>