<p>First post so bear with me.
Little bit of background: I'm a senior and I'm currently going to school in Florida. I'm a mediocre student, but i'm now realizing the extent of my situation. I have a 2.57 unweighted GPA (3.1 weighted). I have not taken the SAT or the ACT. I feel confident I can score well on SAT/ACT but my GPA is terrible. My question is how much damage control can I do in one year? If I made a complete turn around and got As and Bs instead of Cs and Ds for all 4 quarters? I want to get into FAU but my chances are looking grim and I do want to avoid CC. I don't have much Extra Curricular either but I am the youngest in my graduating class, i'll be graduating at 16 could that help at all? Thank you and sorry, this post is all over the place.</p>
<p>Yea it’s going to be hard unless you pull a 2000+ on your sat sorry but colleges do not look at senior year. Hope you can go somewhere however you should have done better earlier instead of senior year</p>
<p>Very little can be done (I am sorry to say). People who plan to improve there GPA tend to forget that schools usually only see your first quarter grades from senior year because the deadline for applications is before first semester ends. Same with EC’s there is not really time to do anything before you apply, so they see what you did in 9th-1th grade. I suggest you sign up for the September SAT and the October ACT at the very least so that you will have two scores to pick between. You being the youngest in your grade will not help, it basically means nothing and your parents could have chosen to have you start school a year later. I don’t know enough about FAU to help with chancing. Though if your stats make it a major reach and that is really where you want to go I recommend you look into attending community college and then transferring.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how much senior grades will help, but the DrDavid is incorrect in saying colleges don’t look at them. Many colleges in fact consider them more important than junior year grades. Why? Because they can weed out all of the slackers who think senioritis starts in the fall.</p>
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<p>Most colleges do not see or consider senior grades (at least around here), so I’m not sure how much that will help you. However, if you score really well on the SAT it will definitely help you some, but I don’t know how much.</p>
<p>Senior year won’t make a difference, trust me. Get a good score on the SAT. I’m being completely serious, that is your only hope. Good luck, bro</p>
<p>Pixels thank you for catching me on this what I meant to say is it has little impact my apologies.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply guys I guess i’ll just have do GREAT on the sat or CC it is…</p>
<p>its the Sept. ACT and Oct. SAT</p>
<p>You should check out what kind of transfer agreements CCs in your state have with the flagships</p>
<p>There are good schools out there that will take you entirely on your ACT/SAT score. </p>
<p>I too have a terrible gpa. right around a 2.0. I only got a 25 on my ACT but one of the schools I visited said I was guaranteed to get in… they hardly even mention my gpa, basically only said “well, yeah, it could be better…”</p>
<p>That being said, look for schools that have auto admission for ACT/SAT scores. Most will probably be out of state…</p>
<p>If you have a story to explain why you’ve slacked; tell it in your essays.</p>
<p>Do work hard your senior year. It might not matter to whatever school you’re immediately going to, but if you want to transfer after your freshman year to a higher tier university, they will see those senior grades in their entirety, along with your freshman/sophomore college grades (do exceptional here as well!)</p>
<p>that will show a potential transfer school that you are capable of excelling in college, and you have grown from your past grades.</p>
<p>I would chose CC as the absolute last option, personally.</p>
<p>Here’s another thought if you don’t get into the 4 year school you want and don’t want to start at a CC.</p>
<p>If you do great during your senior year, you could then take a gap year and find a job/internship/volunteer position that relates to your desired major. You could then re-apply next year, when they could include your full senior year in their decision, as well as gap year activities.</p>
<p>For those more in the know, would this up the odds of getting into a better school?</p>