Raising your GPA

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>To be short, I messed up freshman year. </p>

<p>Unweighted GPA of Freshman year; 2.6250</p>

<p>I messed up first quarter of first semester, and did decent second quarter. I'm now gonna try extremely hard to raise it the remainder of the year, and next year (including senior year, but senior year you apply to colleges before the GPA of that year calculates into your overall GPA, correct?). </p>

<p>Assuming I do extremely well the remainder of this year and next year (A/B averages for all classes), does anyone know how much I can raise my GPA by?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you manage straight As until EA/ED: (2.625+4+4)/3 = 3.5417
If your school works on a block schedule and you manage straight As until RD: (2.625<em>2+4</em>2+4*2+4)/7 = 3.607</p>

<p>Though, remember that:

  1. Colleges love to see upward trends.
  2. You can take summer courses to help pad you GPA.</p>
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<p>We do work on a block schedule. That’s great! And I’ve been informed of the loving of upward trends. Ha.</p>

<p>I will see what summer courses I will take, thanks!</p>

<p>Another question: I live in Durham, NC. Does anyone know if they allow you to re-take classes you did “bad” in? I’ve heard you can from others, but I don’t know if they were in a different state or not.</p>

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<p>From what I have heard, this is a college-only thing. But fortunately, doing well in the more advanced courses can mitigate your low freshman GPA.</p>

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<p>Oh, alright. I’ve never taken a class that wasn’t honors, but I never really though honors was an “advanced” course considering how ridiculously easy it feels to me. </p>

<p>My sophomore schedule -
Civics & Economics
Chemistry
French I
Forensics Science
Microsoft Word & Excel
Animal Science
Pre-Calculus
English II</p>

<p>my plans for junior schedule:
APUSH
APES
AP Stat
AP Chemistry
debating on AP English, I feel Honors isn’t teaching me enough and I would love to be better in writing.
Physics (No AP offered at my school)
AP Psychology (debating on junior or senior year, I realize I’m thinking of a lot of APs right now so I might hold this off till senior year, but I heard it is one of the easier APs)
if I take all of those that leaves me with 2 courses to take and I’m still trying to figure that out. if I end up not having any more actual classes I want to take I’ll take French 2/AP French III or Spanish II/AP Spanish III</p>