<p>Ok. <em>big breath</em> The deal is... I have a lot of other information that, on hindsight, I feel like I should've included in my applications.</p>
<p>I had extremely poor GPA my sophomore year (5 C's!), but have been surely and steadily improve since then. I feel pretty strongly that I can get straight A's this semester, and I am taking the hardest courseload available (all my classes are AP/IB except for my Adv journalism/school newspaper class). Actually, I've been taking the hardest courseload available since my freshman year. I have had a lot of honors/AP/IB classes which is why I have a pretty big difference between my weighed grade (3.94) and my unweighted grade (3.3). And frankly, I feel that it is my GPA that will get me rejected ultimately. My SATs aren't stellar 2400s/800s but they're not bad. 2230/790/770.
Should I send all my colleges an extra essay accounting for my sophomore year/increasing trend, even if it's past the deadline?
Or would they not even take it?
Or is it unnecessary/not worth it?</p>
<p>Also, I had a huge passion involving website designing/programming since I was young; I started tinkering with website since 4th/5th grade, and have been making website since then. I've made several websites for other people/companies and had a personal website, but since then, all these websites have disappeared, including mine (I had no money to keep funding it). I wanted to include my website experience in my applications, but didn't know how to, as I have no real substantial proof that I had done them.
Should I still include them, even if I have no proof?
Is it worth writing another essay about it? Because it was also a part of why I, er, underperformed my sophomore year.</p>
<p>Sorry that was long. :( But yea, I'm also scared now that I thought of these too late, and I should've included these in my applications.</p>
<p>I am kinda in the same boat as you. I screwed around freshmen and sophomore year but brought my grades up junior year. No It's not worth explaining. Adcoms will see your transcript and the trend in your grades.</p>
<p>I also like to make websites and I just directed them to my personal site. Perhaps you could get a porfolio site up real quick.</p>
<p>It's worth explaining if your explanation is something more than "I played Halo for 232 hours and didn't do any homework all of sophomore year". If something happened that affected your grade that semester - your mother died, your best friend was suicidal, whatever, then yes, you should explain it, especially if it's a blip in the radar. At least that's what I did.</p>
<p>you got 5 c's freshman year but have a 3.94 weighted? THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT I HAVE and i've never gotten c's. well...sigh. i hate my school so much. </p>
<p>i think you should send an essay. what's the worst that could happen? really!</p>
<p>:| Well. Pretty much ALL my classes were honors/AP/IB. I took the hardest classes/courseload available. So I guess the 'boost' came from that.</p>
<p>And note the huge difference between my weighted and my unweighted. ... 3.3 .... <em>runs away from my GPA</em></p>
<p>:| I'm actually scared that they might think bad of me trying to explain my grades. Like, they might think I'm just trying to pull up a million unreasonable excuses... Which sometimes I think I am, cause I should just... done my best, regardless. >_<! I was so immature...</p>
<p>But I guess I'll just write it first and then call them if I can send an extra supplementary essay over...</p>