<p>Just how important are they for colleges?
I heard that they usually just check to make sure u are doing decently (As Bs and occasional Cs okay) and that ur not slacking off with easy classes. Is this true?
Do UCs look into senior grades? and if so, to what extent?
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>It depends on where you're going. Usually, colleges expect you to do as well senior year as in the rest of your high school years. </p>
<p>The "extent" they check up on a person is mainly the midyear report, which gives your midyear grades. Also, the end-of-year or final transcript grades.</p>
<p>It's fairly important. A continuing upward trend is good -- and many colleges base the applicant's potential academic performance in college on how well they do senior year. For example, if a student has a 3.6 average for the first three years of high school and then gets a 3.8 or better for his first semester senior year grades, then his chances to be accepted are increased accordingly. Yes, senior grades are important -- and so is the lack of "senioritis" or "senior slump." Colleges and universities are now deliberating if an early-accepted student slides so badly as to rescind the acceptance and to place the student on its wait list of its regular decision candidates. There is growing pressure to make sure that high school seniors honor their unspoken contract with the college that has accepted them to maintain their current academic status.</p>
<p>Another thing that can happen if you are going to receive a merit scholarship which is based on SATscores/GPAs a slide in your GPA could result in your losing the scholarship</p>
<p>do colleges really rescind their acceptances if they see your final grade drops?</p>
<p>There have been cases where the drop has been so severe that the student is placed on the waiting list. When you apply early and have been accepted, you make a tacit contract to maintain the quality of your academics at or near the level at which you were accepted. It's not the college's fault that you slipped. You didn't keep up your end of the bargain and neither should they.</p>
<p>An example of a severe drop that will probably result in a rescinded admission:</p>
<p>First three years plus first semester senior year: A average
Second semester senior year: C/B- average</p>
<p>yea but lets say that you do really well ur so/jr years and then first semester you get 3 b's and 3 a's, but 2 of the class you're taking are the hardest in the school (ap euro hist, ap english literature)? even if they're more difficult classes than the AP calc bc, ap bio, ap eng lang, and ap ush classes you took the yr before?</p>
<p>what? lol that has to be the most incoherent post i've ever seen.</p>
<p>For the first semester of your senior year - should be about as good as your other years (or better of course). The second semester - haha, GRADES, ha thats funny! As long as you pass dude</p>
<p>yea, i mean do they even check the final grades?</p>
<p>you bet colleges look at final grades. If you have an A average and then all of the sudden start getting straight C's second semester your acceptance could very well be taken away from you!</p>
<p>I know a kid who was applying to those SUPER-competitive 7 year meds and he had STRAIGHT A's for 3 and a half years then got an F second semester. The colleges didn't even question it. The second-semester senior year grades mean close to nothing. I agree with vladimir, just make sure you PASS!</p>
<p>Senior year grades are really important for college. Most kids tend to get what is referred to as "senioritis" and slack off because they feel like senior year doesn't count. However, if you are able to maintain solid grades during twelfth grade, it shows colleges that you didn't just work hard during previous years to gain acceptance to a prestigious university. It shows that you are really motivated and you actually care about learning.</p>
<p>They are really important if you do regular decision, but UNC even considered them important enough that they make it very clear in their acceptance letters that your admission is counting on the fact that you finish the year strongly. Plus, why sell yourself short? There are thousands of scholarships that may ride on your senior year grades.</p>
<p>blah, this means i have to work this semester lol</p>
<p>if i keep reading these threads im gonna kill myself before april</p>
<p>well what hard classes. What if I finish the year with B- or C in my AP Calculus class. DO you think they would realize that this is just a hard class?</p>
<p>2nd quarter i got a 78 in ap calc and 77 in ap eco. first quarter i had an 83 and 91 respectively. It wasn't that I stopped trying, but in calc the material got harder, and the teacher can't explain anything. in eco the teacher graded all the homeworks at the end and counted them as roughly 30% of the grade. </p>
<p>I would hope they realize the hard classes. Having bad teachers senior year sucks...</p>
<p>Where did you apply Socko?</p>