<p>So it is approaching the end of senior year in high school and my grades are the worst I've ever had. I'm going to a college that I want to transfer out of - will my grades affect me particularly? Will they weigh them more because they reflect the latter part of my high school career (which is thus closer to my college career)? The thing is that I know for sure that I'm going to get near a 4.0 my first few semesters. Will my latter school see the inconsistency as a disadvantage?</p>
<p>My worst grade is a 65 in AP 3D Studio Art and a 65 in AP Calculus BC. I know the standard answer is that I should do the best I can from here on out because colleges still look at high school transcripts, but how much do they care about this? Do they care about a stupid art class that I regret even being in? Do college students even take art their freshman and sophomore years if it isn't their major?</p>
<p>NOTE: If anyone goes to Baruch, and can give me some specific advice about ANYTHING (not just this), please PM me or post here.</p>
<p>It means you’ll have to have a really, really high college GPA to make up for your high school record. Those grades mean that you’ll have to show universities how you turned yourself around in college. It would also help if you have very high standardized test scores as a counterweight to those grades. One thing you can do now is get a high score on the relevant AP exams. If you get a 4 or 5 on an AP exam, it can prove to some schools that your class was unusually hard, or that you at least did study and pay attention to the subject matter.</p>
<p>OK. Does art class matter, though, or do colleges only look at the core classes in transfer admissions? That is, given a 2400 SAT and a 5 on the calculus BC exam…which are both anticipated (I’m retaking the SAT in June…will be the only senior in the testing room lol…and calculus is really easy) and obviously more “core” than a class that is unrelated to what I do in college…</p>
<p>And when people say what you just said, do they really mean it, or are they only speaking in theory? Is it realistic that I get into a top school from a bad one given all the things you listed (plus good ECs and essays)? Or will I always be at a disadvantage given my pathetic high school record/ECs?</p>