So I am a senior from Texas. Over my high school career I have taken about 15 AP classes and averaged an 85ish. in all of them. I took an SAT the beginning of junior year and got a 1280 (New SAT). I plan on taking it again, and expect at least a 100 point improvement. However it is the first semester of Senior and I am ending the first half of AP Calculus with a D, same with AP Bio. I got busy with college Apps along with college visits and SAT prep, I also straight up got lazy/burned out. I am applying early to SMU, Baylor, and TCU, and I expect that most likely I will get in. However my dream schools are BostonU and Boston College. I wanted to know if I I finish out the second half of the quarter (ending in December) with all As, if that will compensate for my low first quarter grades. My school has a weird schedule where each quarter is a semester.
Basically, if my scores are around 1400, and my second semester (second quarter grades) are good, will it compensate for a TERRIBLE first semester( quarter)?
With all those APs. what were your actual scores exactly? a 1280 SAT just doesn’t look like a kid with 15 APs. As a senior, you “plan” to take it again? Do you have an actual time frame? What is your cumulative GPA? In another thread you had a 1450 in your SAT in Dec 16 with a GPA of 3.5? SO now it is under 3.5?
Hey Sybylla, so junior year I expected I would get a 1450 on the SAT, cause like that’s what I was getting on practice SAT’s. And my Weighted GPA is a 4.11, but my unweighted dropped to a 3.1 because like I was receiving B’s. I am taking the December SAT, I was supposed to take the November one but I was stupid and I didn’t sign up in time (I thought college board deadline was in CT instead of ET) My SAT was a 650 in reading and a 610 in math, I expect math to go up because I was behind in math when I had originally taken the exam.
Don’t apply early to colleges that require a test score.
BTW, good test optional colleges include Dickinson and Wake Forest but your current GPA make then reaches.
What’s your budget? Have you run the NPC on these Universities?
Boston U and Boston College are VERY different Universities, what attracts you to then?
Why not Northeastern BTW?
Terrible first quarter grades make it look like you can’t handle more rigorous college level courses. But bringing it up second quarter shows that you have adjusted and are ready to do well in college.
It would have been better to take less APs and gotten A’s on them than to take so many and get Bs.