Unweighted GPA Importance

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>^^you're ordering is about right, its the same for almost all schools. Princeton and another Ivy (Yale??) don't look at freshman grades. Senior year is more important if you're applying RD. Even for EA, first term of senior year is very important. </p>

<p>Senior year is not as important because its only 1 term. You obviously can't weigh one term equally to your whole junior year. Remember though that admissions is generally a holistic process so you can't give definite weights to each years.</p>

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<p>Godfatherbob, that actually IS the way it is at my school. Believe me, it irks me to no end to see the slacker kid next to me with a 90.1% wind up with the same A that I get, busting my butt to get a 98. And numbers/percentages are not reported on report cards or anything-- colleges really only see the letter grade (devoid of +/-).</p>

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Believe me, it irks me to no end to see the slacker kid next to me with a 90.1% wind up with the same A that I get, busting my butt to get a 98. And numbers/percentages are not reported on report cards or anything-- colleges really only see the letter grade (devoid of +/-).

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<p>The people who get all the 98's get the LORs that say "Johnny is the best Chemistry student I've had in 15 years."</p>

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<p>haha well, I hope it pays off somehow :)</p>

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<p>plus, when they rank you...won't the percentages matter then?</p>

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<p>imabum, not to some schools
i know one dat looks at letters only
even for ranking
so there would be like 5 #1's</p>

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<p>imabum, they just rank based on the letter grades at my school.</p>