<p>How do colleges see your senior year grades? Doesn't your transcript only show your freshman-junior year grades? If this is the case, are colleges only able to see your grades through the Midyear report your counselor sends?</p>
<p>Your first semester senior grades are reported on your Midyear Report, and your grades for the whole year are reported on the Final Report (submitted after admission). For schools like Duke that require first quarter grades for people applying ED, you will have to submit those as well.</p>
<p>But the college won’t actually see the grades? Just the updated version of the GPA? Sorry to be a bother but the waiting scale for GPAs at my school is so weird that it’s hard to discern grades from that alone…</p>
<p>An actual mid year transcript is supposed to be submitted with the midyear report which would show your individual grades, not just gpa.</p>
<p>I have heard of admissions officers calling up guidance counselors in the middle of the year to find out how a student is doing, even before they receive the mid-year report. This is particularly done if a student is on the edge of being admitted - if they are doing well, it puts them over the edge. If they are screwing up, it dumps them into the pit.</p>
<p>Also, there are cases of colleges withdrawing offers of admission if a student screws up the second half of the senior year. It has to be a serious screwup, but it does happen.</p>
<p>Moreover, senior year is a great time to earn lots of AP college credit at no cost to you (except possibly the costs of the tests). You save $10,000 of college costs by continuing to work hard in AP classes.</p>
<p>Premed789, I think it depends on if you’re doing ED or normal decision…regular decision, i think most schools would factor in the midyear report for admission (could someone else confirm this though?). </p>
<p>Also, does anyone know when the midyear reports are actually due for universities, or does that depend on when your highschool first term ends? That might also affect whether or not universities see any senior grades for admission.</p>