Upward trend, but still nervous?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>This is my GPA sequence (weighted):</p>

<p>Freshman --
3.33
3.45</p>

<p>Sophomore --
3.5
3.9</p>

<p>Junior--
3.91
4.0</p>

<p>Senior (predicted) --
4.17</p>

<p>My cumulative GPA without the senior year grades is a 3.68 weighted, and this really scares me. Do you think my huge upward trend will excuse my lower grades early on or no? My dream school is Rice. :/</p>

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<p>What’s your unweighted GPA? That’s probably more important because every school weights differently.</p>

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<p>I know that UCs have created their own system for weighting GPA, but from my understanding, most colleges only care about unweighted GPA.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t give out UW GPA, but I’m sure it is not terribly far from my current GPA. Honors and APs are both given a .33 boost.</p>

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<p>Basically what others have said, unweighted is what matters more. Do you know what your unweighted GPA is, if not can you estimate it?</p>

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<p>It’s not hard to calculate your unweighted.</p>

<p>Add up all your grades from every year, letting A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. If it’s a half credit class, then divide those by two.
Then divide by the total number of credits attempted. (This is the same as the number of credits earned unless you’ve failed a class.)</p>