<p>I messed up my junior year pretty badly (almost failed out). But I am blessed to go to a school with "NO GRADES". Plus side is that many schools (even high ranking institutions) won't look at all 4 years of grades (most only look at 1st semester senior). The downside is that I have very few options for recommendations.</p>
<p>However these will be my stats around application time.</p>
<p>SAT score: ~2040
SAT2s: Literature and Latin (TBD)
AP: U.S. History (3) and Aeneid (4)
ECs: 4 years of chorus, Co-founded a non-profit, Plays piano and sings in a band for 1 year, 3 years of Ceramics, 2 years on the school newspaper, as well as a bunch of activities that I only participated in for a year or so which I won't list here.</p>
<p>What are the best schools I could apply to with stats like this?</p>
<p>Please help especially if you're experienced with schools w/o grades.</p>
<p>Have never heard of no grades. Could that be compareable to home schooling? How do other students get into college?</p>
<p>Where are you getting this info:
Never heard that and not my sons experience. If they only looked at Senior grades, why do people get so worked up about the other years? How could you get in ED or EA when those grades aren’t even released? What is your source.</p>
<p>Sorry, I should clarify on that. We don’t have letter grades or percentages but what gets sent to the schools is about a page per class written by the instructor discussing what you’ve learned, your performance, etc.</p>
<p>OP, most schools focus on your sophomore and junior year, your 1st semester grades won’t be available for most of the process. High ranking schools tend look at everything (with some exception schools that don’t count freshman year). You really need to do some more research about the colleges you are interested in.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of schools without grades but I’m not sure how they work in the application process.</p>
<p>Although I’m not experienced with schools w/o grades, you might want to consider a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>Hi Bandgeek1, I’m only reporting the info I’m getting from my school’s college office. I think the first semester reports are completed early for seniors. </p>
<p>I want to know the best schools I have a chance of getting into. My list as it stands holds a heavy preference to schools near large cities with around 1,000-6,000 students.</p>
<p>That is really odd, my school’s counselor told something completely different. When does your 1st semester end?
I have no idea truthfully your SAT score is very good, but you said junior year was terrible and even though you don’t have grades won’t that be in your teacher’s report?</p>
<p>It’s in my reports for junior year but most schools don’t ask for those reports since it takes so long to read through all those. Main problem will be getting recommendations- I did poorly in all 11th grade courses and my teachers will mention it in the recommendations.</p>
<p>If they don’t ask for reports then why would they be written in the first place and how would they distinguish you from other candidates with GPAs?
You can get recommendations from freshman, sophomore, or senior teachers.</p>
<p>Well MOST schools don’t request it. Ex: Duke, Barnard, NYU, Oberlin, and a few others want all 4 years of year end reports. But for some reason Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and many more do not ask for all for years.</p>
<p>Does anyone know where I could get in?</p>
<p>Anyone? I’m desperate here.</p>
<p>Just apply to every school you want to apply to. You’ll only know if you can get in when they send you your admissions decision.
And if you’re a senior you should have a good idea of what colleges you would like to attend, you’re cutting it close.</p>
<p>I’m sorry wannabe – most of us have no idea what a University will do if you have no grades.</p>
<p>I’d put together a list, based on your SAT scores. Get a few safetys (in case someone looks at your JR transcript), then call every school and find out what they do.</p>
<p>If you are concerned about recs- get them from teachers in years other than junior year. Colleges will indicate if there is a need to have them from 11th grade (my D did not run into any such requirement but I have seen on CC that some tippy top schools do require from specific academic years).</p>