<p>Are sophomore grades important??
Aren't they pretty worthless in comparison to junior grades???</p>
<p>I have the following unweighted grades:</p>
<p>Freshman = 3.7
Sophmore = 2.0
Junior = 4.0</p>
<p>Will the sophmore grades hurt a little with other stats are good?</p>
<p>Will they hurt you? Of course they well.</p>
<p>Will junior year grades be looked at more heavily, will Colleges take note of your improvement? Yes.</p>
<p>I'm in a similar situation to you.. had around a 3.7 freshman year, dropped to maybe a 3.0, then up to a 4.0 junoir year, and hopefully finishing off my junior year with around a 4.1-4.2.</p>
<p>Hopefully someone with more insight will reply to this topic beacuse I'd like more info as well.....</p>
<p>My weighted grades are something like:</p>
<p>Freshman: 3.9
Sophmore: 3.0
Junior = 5.25</p>
<p>but dont colleges mainly consider overall GPA for admission</p>
<p>Well yeah, but what constitutes your GPA are your scores in various courses, which all in all, are seen on your transcript.</p>
<p>The talk about importance of grades in different years of high school is inflated. It seems that it has gotten to the point where people think nothing matters but last two terms of junior year.</p>
<p>Yes, colleges do consider junior year important, more so than freshman year. But one must remember that for this to seriously become a large factor in admission, the improvement of grades should be tremendous, and explanations should be given for a slow start.</p>
<p>In general, the overall GPA is looked at. Unless there's an obvious declining/increasing trend that bears significance, adcoms won't really care.</p>
<p>In this particular case, I think that your sophomore year will hurt a lot, unless you have a valid reason for that drop. You seemed to know what you were doing freshman year, then just decided to slack off or something. And remember, your overall GPA is really what's going to matter in the long run if you don't have a GREAT reason for your sophomore year.</p>
<p>no offense, but Sophmore = 2.0 is pretty low. Unless you have a legitimate excuse, it will really hurt you. (depends on what type of school you want to go to). That's not B level, that's C.</p>
<p>5.25 for junior year?? what kind of school do you go to?</p>
<p>our gpa is calculated out of 4.0 and +.5 for AP. There is no way you can get a 5.25 taking 7 classes.</p>
<p>they give +1 for Pre-AP
and
+2 for AP here</p>
<p>we have 7-point scale here...</p>
<p>93-100 A
85-92 B
77-84 C
70-76 D
00-69 F</p>
<p>so its not that hard to get Cs,Ds,and Fs here</p>
<p>We have the 7 pt scale too. I thought a lot of schools did. And we don't have any PRE=AP classes, just .37 added for every AP you take and make an A in. And only 8 AP classes offered, not even AP Chem.</p>
<p>yea at my school we don't even weight grades.. i'd love to have weighted grades and then be considered at the top of my class because then my 3.78 would be like a 4.53 according to some of youre school's weighting thingys,, but colleges re-configure GPA's so weighted doesn't really matter...</p>
<p>My school doesn't weigh grades either, which means my 4.0 with 4 AP classes is the same as the 4.0 someone has with advanced stichery, office aiding, study hall, and music appreciation. We also don't have valedictorian/salutatorian.</p>
<p>It is impossible to get a 5.25.!!!! EVEN IF YOUR SCHOOL COUNTS THEIR GPA A DIFFERENT WAY, YOU WILL STILL HAVE A DIFFERENT GPA ON YOUR COLLEGE APPLICATIONS. THEREFORE, HAVING A 5.25 GPA AT YOUR SCHOOL DOES NOT HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANCE ON YOUR COLLEGE APPLICATION. YOU WILL PROBABLY BE IN THE LOWER 4.0 RANGE, OR MAYBE LESS.</p>
<p>No, according to variance's scale, it's possible. You can take 7 APs in 1 year and get 14 GPA, right? That's really strange, do they just average it all at the end or something?</p>
<p>When people say "add 0.5 for each AP class", it means this:</p>
<p>(assume an A is a 4.0, and you get an A in all classes)</p>
<p>AP Calc BC = 4.0 + .5 = 4.5
AP English Lang = 4.0 + .5 = 4.5
AP Physics = 5.0 + .5 = 4.5
Latin 4 = 4.0 = 4. 0
Orchestra (or somethin) = 4.0</p>
<p>4.5+4.5+4.5+4.0+4.0 = 21.5 divided by number of classes = <strong><em>4.3 GPA</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>NOT</em></strong> 4.0 average +3(0.5) = 5.5 GPA</p>
<p>--Sorry, perhaps this seems rather unnecessary, but I think there's a lot of people misinterpretting what other people are saying due to drastic differences in how GPAs are calculated.... or maybe I'm just stupid and just wasted 5 minutes of my time explaining something that everybody knows :)--</p>
<p>But according to variance's scale, you add 2 whole points for every AP class. So let's say someone took 7 AP classes in a year at his school.
It would be
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
4.0 + 2 = 6.0
Add it all up, get 42, divide by 7, and get a 6.0 GPA.</p>
<p>A 2.0 looks pretty bad, to be honest.</p>
<p>I'm so thankful my high school uses a logical 100-point scale. We don't bother with any weird letter grades or GPAs, we just receive our grades out of 100 points and average them together with certain weightings.</p>
<p>I dont think most schools will go crazy enough to start looking at individual grades/semesters...</p>
<p>Either way,NC standard weight is:</p>
<p>+0 = Standard HS Course
+1 = Honors/Pre-AP/Pre-IB/Magnet/IB SL Course
+2 = IB HL/AP/College Course</p>
<p>The UNC system recalculates the weight to this model..
And they use this weighting for admission purposes...
Unweighted GPA is not considered..</p>
<p>Ex. UNC-CH's average WGPA is 4.3.</p>
<p>Variance:</p>
<p>Soph year is the second most important year on your transcript. Some schools don't even consider Frosh grades -- for example, Princeton, & the UC's. If you have a good excuse for the dropoff, have your GC explain it.</p>
<p>I was told that the importance is:</p>
<p>1) Junior Year
2) 1st Semester Senior Year
3) Sophomore Year
4) Freshman Year</p>
<p>The schools I am applying to say they look at all 4 years.. So does that mean that they will all be weighted equally and that they just use overall GPA???</p>