<p>My gpas for all four years in go as follows:
9-84
10-84
11-94
12(1st quarter)-95</p>
<p>The 95 my senior year comes with 3 AP and 1 honors classes.
How much attention will colleges pay to an upward grade trend? I feel as though I'm now at the level as kids who have overall 95 averages throughout highschool, but my overall accumulative gpa (89) doesn't represent where I am now.</p>
<p>bump, anyone?</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you, although my increase was much more dramatic (3.4, 2.8, 3.8, 4.0 on weighted 4.0 scale) and many admissions counselors have told me that it is to your benefit to have an upward trend. It’s much more worrisome to have a downward trend, and the admissions officers do pay attention to what courses you’re taking, so at least they’re cognizant that you’re challenging yourself. Also, if you have fairly high ACT/SAT scores, that can only help you.</p>
<p>The better the college (lower admissions rate), the less it will matter. At colleges that don’t have thousands of top applicants, it means much more.</p>
<p>You will look better than the guy who got a 95 freshman year and 84 senior year, definitely. But like hmom5 said, the most selective colleges can pick the students who got 95 every year.</p>
<p>What about my situation? Freshman year I did pretty well (4.1), sophomore year i took a dip because of some problems at home (3.66). But junior year I improved A LOT (4.46) ans this year I’m looking at a 4.6, with a 2270 on SATs, 800 on both math SAT 2s, **** like that. Do i still have a shot at ivies etc? Really I’m wondering if my circumstances could get me a little leeway. (Btw those last 2 GPAs are top 2-3 at my school)</p>
<p>Yes, bad circumstances one year can make up for bad grades that year. As long as the bad circumstances aren’t the “well my parents and I fought a lot because they’re so overprotective” so many people like to complain about.</p>
<p>nah, nah, my sister had trouble getting pregnant and she had like a lot of medical problems. my parents had to keep driving down to baltimore (a few hours away) weekly, and it was kind of hard to cocentrate with that going on</p>
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Yes, bad circumstances one year can make up for bad grades that year. As long as the bad circumstances aren’t the “well my parents and I fought a lot because they’re so overprotective” so many people like to complain about.[/uote]</p>
<p>Can we have your source for this info?</p>