Is a small drop such as .03 or .04 from sophomore year to junior year gpa is a bad thing in terms of college admissions, especially to higher tiered ones. If so how bad it is??
My grades from sophomore year are all A’s but I have 1 or 2 B+'s this year in some of my AP classes.
Have you examined it for statistical significance?
@JustOneDad For specific college admissions or cumulative gpa?
Collections of numbers have their own significance built in.
With a .03-.04 drop in gpa this year alone, my overall gpa would drop around .01 - .02 or at most .03.
I’m more so wondering if a gpa that’s around the same or ever so slightly lower is a bad sign to colleges, as opposed to high upward trends.
Changes in GPA calculations that result in a few hundredths difference don’t matter. You are still the same student.
So even though my first B’s came in junior year, it’s not as bad as it is?
Do you feel that Junior level courses began to test your limits?
Yeah, I took 4 APS including physics, bc calc, English, and psych. The rest were honors. 7 classes total
@JustOneDad is being too subtle; it is statistically insignificant. There are many things which will cause anxiety in the college application process. Stressing over a 0.04 reduction in GPA should not be one of them.