<p>So, freshman year I didn't do very well, sophomore year I did better, and I totally won junior year. I have an overall GPA that I can live with, and the steady improvement looks good.
I'm applying to most of my schools early, so I know they'll get up to the junior year and I think first quarter senior year. I am doing pretty well in all my classes right now (all AP and honors) getting As and Bs. I could keep up the trend of improvement through my senior year but, to be honest, I am ready to take a break. I put everything I had into junior year and I am absolutely burnt. I'll probably be ready again next fall...
If I keep doing well until the end of this quarter, is it alright to go a little bit easier and get some Bs and Cs instead? I know it will bring down my final grades and GPA and whatever school admits me will see this, but is that going to be enough of a decline to get me kicked out or anything?
I'm really just worried about if I get accepted to any of my reaches like Northeastern, Vassar, Colorado College or BU. Would they view this slight decline as a reason to un-accept me?
Let me know!! Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>If B’s and C’s are a “slight” decline, then I question your chances at those schools. Second, you have little leeway with a record like that - schools may see you slipping back into old habits and have little sympathy. You NEED to keep up appearances until you have acceptance letters in hand, which is going to be until the end of first semester. What do you do if you get a handful of rejections, you’ve still got to do RD then, and you’ll need good grades there as well. And planning on letting things slide to the B and C range has a habit of sliding even further, into truly dangerous territory.</p>
<p>Sorry, but this is like being an alcoholic, you can’t just have a sip of laziness, you’ve proven that. If you want to be clean and sober, then it’s hard work all the way.</p>
<p>Schools do look at your GPA and your trend, so its better not to have them slip. You didn’t give us your GPA or test scores so its impossible to comment on how big an impact a couple Cs would be. </p>
<p>If you really feel “burned out” try taking on some classes you consider less stressful and cut back on the other stress points in your life (job, etc). </p>
<p>Hi friend. I totally understand how you feel because I’m literally going through the same thing. It’s like you put all your energy and effort into school and in return, school just sucks the life out of you. But it really does sound like you’re a dedicated student. Just be that dedicated student for a few more months! You’ll make it, don’t give up now. Yeah sure, you can get B’s and C’s but do you really wanna mess up the G.P.A. that you’ve been working on for the past three years of your life? I’m not trying to sound dramatic but think about it lol.</p>
<p>But I agree with the peeps above me. To release stress, take classes that you can manage so that way you can do things you like and feel less burnt.</p>
<p>Anyways, good luck on the rest of the Senior year!!! Just one more year, you can do this!!! :+)</p>
<p>Hi all thank you for saying things.</p>
<p>So if it would help, I have a 2010 on SATs and a 3.8 weighted gpa. I’m taking 3 AP courses and 3 honors this year and at midterm when I calculated my gpa I had something over a 4. My only B this year right now is in AP biology.</p>
<p>I plan to keep this up until the end of first term (literally next week). That’s all that I will be sending to RD schools, right? So really the only school that’s going to see the rest of the year’s grades are wherever I end up going? When I have acceptance letters in hand? What I meant was, is this school going to get all my final grades, see that my gpa is lower than when they accepted me, and kick me out? Do I have to maintain the stats they saw when they accepted me? I promise my laziness won’t be an addiction…</p>
<p>Oh, boohoo, poor @ebart115. He’s so “burnt” because he devoted such unprecedented effort into nine whole academic months during his high school junior year. None of the rest of us – young or old – ever faced challenges that were THAT demanding. Perhaps it’s time you recognize that the rest of your life – college, career, family, and much more – is likely to be FAR more burdensome and exacting than anything you’ve experienced in high school’s first three years . . . and it will also be unremittingly, probably continuing for 45+ years. Furthermore, there are American youngsters of approximately your age who – today – are in combat zones in Southwest Asia, not really knowing if they’ll return home physically unscarred. However, you’re “ready to take a break” because your junior year was so daunting. My advice is to stop feeling sorry for yourself, to grow up, and to realize that adult life is frequently VERY difficult.</p>
<p>CC is all about providing education advice and information; most learning takes place through hard life experiences, complemented by academic work. If you want to be successful, you will be required to perform with excellence, ceaselessly for decades. Now is the time to embrace the values that are necessary to prevail, not to give up by considering how lazy you can be throughout your senior year, but still enter an undergraduate program of your choice. Critically, quitting becomes habitual.</p>
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<p>No. For RD, they’ll ask for 1st semester grades before they make their decisions in March, and possible ask for 2nd semester mid-term grades. Even if we were talking about ED/EA schools, they could ask your GC for a flash update right before the Dec. 15 release date if you were on the bubble. You can NEVER relax, they can always ask for an update until you have that acceptance in hand.</p>
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. . . and even after “that acceptance is in hand,” universities sometime rescind a senior’s admission. While this certainly is not frequent, it factually happens. If you go to CC’s Class of '18 Dartmouth forum, you’ll find a lengthy thread concerning an accepted senior who – due to less-than-ideal senior grades – was bounced from 2018, but with likely acceptance next Fall, with Dartmouth 2019. </p>