<p>Hey guys, I am entering my Senior year in high school, and my transcript is not usual, and I want to know how colleges will look at this. Please read the entire post.</p>
<p>Freshman Year GPA: 2.5 (all regular courses)
Sophomore Year GPA: 2.7 (all regular courses)
Junior Year GPA: 3.9 (all regular courses)</p>
<p>Senior year course load: AP Chem, Regular Lit, Regular Calc, AP Psych, Regular Spanish IV.</p>
<p>SAT: 2050</p>
<p>Played baseball Freshman year and Junior year, and will be playing in the Spring.</p>
<p>So, clearly I did not take school seriously Freshman and Sophomore year, and I got my act together Junior year. My SAT score is solid, so clearly I am a bright person. Do you think a college will look at me as the person I am now, or just reject me because of my horrible GPA Freshman and Sophomore year? To me, this looks like a kid who clearly matured after his Sophomore year, and got his act together. It looks like a kid who is at this point in time, a hardworking, bright person. These are the schools I was looking at, and would love to get into.</p>
<p>Rutgers New Brunswick (In-State)
Syracuse
Fordham
Boston University
Northeastern
UDel
Penn State UPark
TCNJ</p>
<p>Would I be able to get into any of those schools? If so, which ones? Thanks a lot I really appreciate any input you have.</p>
<p>Does “regular courses” mean that there were no Honors or AP classes during the first three years of high school? What is your overall GPA at the end of 11th grade excluding classes like PE?</p>
<p>And yes, that means no honors or AP. My school calls them academic courses. But my question basically is, will they look at this as an obviously changed person because of my Junior year GPA and my Senior year course load, or will they reject me due to the fact that I there may still be a little bit of the person I was Freshman and Sophomore year inside of me?</p>
<p>Your grades will follow you through the admissions process. Some schools will like the upward trend. Most will think you got serious when it was convenient. Look for schools that rate scores as most important. What can your family afford?</p>
<p>My family can afford basically anything. I don’t mean to be cocky, but that’s the truth. Would it make more sense to go to a community college, then transfer? My brother transferred from my local community college to the Stern school of business at NYU. But yeah, basically, do I have any chances of making those schools? I would assume my cumulative GPA is like a 3.0. 2050 SAT, clear upward trend, two APs senior year. Also, how important are senior year first semester grades?</p>
I agree with you. Maybe in one of your essays make that point and show how and why you got your act together and how you know you will keep it together. I’m not familiar with those schools for knowing how well you’d do at them specifically, but I’d guess that in general you’re fine if you make your case well enough and write really good essays.</p>
<p>Fordham seems like a good bet to me as they are on the us news a+ schools for b students AND you have an upward trend. Also I think your scores are at around 75%+ for them, however I have no knowledge of the others tbh.</p>
<p>I think you need to cast a wider net. Most of those schools place particular emphasis on the rigor of your coursework, which you don’t have in any meaningful sense. I would say they’re all reaches for you.</p>
<p>Penn State has a chart on its website in which you can look across the GPA column and down the SAT column and see what percentage of people in your situation were admitted there. You’d have a great shot at a smaller, satellite state school in PA and then move to University Park in junior year. That’s a very popular process.</p>
<p>I think TCNJ might be a problem for you, and I know, personally, several people who were either rejected or waitlisted at Delaware this year with similar scores and much higher GPA/rigor than you have. Since you’re full pay, you may have some success, but I would add some absolute safety schools to protect yourself.</p>
<p>my answer is this: WHY DO YOU NEED MORE ANSWERS?</p>
<p>first of all, if colleges did care, then does that stop you from applying to any?! if you want to apply to college, apply to college. if you don’t, don’t. don’t worry about how they might perceive your application. just write up the best application you possibly can and trust in yourself when you send them in. there’s no point in worrying about this. it’s the past, it’s not going to change.</p>
<p>@NerusBreakdown- Wanting to know your chances is perfectly reasonable.
That being said, I have no idea for most places. I’m sure you’d be fine for Fordham though, so don’t worry about that.</p>
<p>What are you even saying? I want to know if I should go to a community college for two years, then transfer, or if I can go to a good college straight out of high school. That’s a huge part of college confidential.</p>
<p>You do not have to make a decision about community college at this point.
Go ahead and apply to colleges that interest you. You know going into it that your transcript is unusual, and you have some strengths (SAT score, junior year grades) to potentially appeal to some colleges.
Is there any school that you view as a safety, or is this a list full of reaches?</p>