<p>Can I call this trend downward or upward or both?</p>
<p>Freshmen:</p>
<p>Geometry: A/A
Civics: A/A
English I: A/A
French I: A/A
Physics: A/A</p>
<p>Sophormore:</p>
<p>Pre-Calc/Trig: A/A
World History: A/B
English II: A/B
French II: A/A
Biology: B/B</p>
<p>Junior:</p>
<p>Calculus: B/A
US History A/A
English II: B/A
French III: B/A
Chemistry: B/A</p>
<p>The semesters go 4.0, 4.0, 3.8, 3.4, 3.2, 4.0.</p>
<p>I hear a lot of upward trend but most of this looks more downward--any opinions?</p>
<p>umm... is there any good reason for it? Because it looks a little like slacking and then getting a reality check... like the soph sloth if you pulled off a 4.0 for all of your senoir year (so that semester you send in would be a 4.0), it could be upward.</p>
<p>I was in the same boat as you (I went through the exact same trend you did). I had straight A's freshmen year, slacked as a sophomore and first semester junior, and had straight A's the rest of that year.</p>
<p>Then I started slacking again as a senior... <em>cough</em> But I got into most of the schools I applied to, so I'm happy.</p>
<p>Unless you're going for HYPS, you don't need to worry about your grades that much.</p>
<p>I am applying to Stanford. </p>
<p>The reason for my grades isn't slacking, I had serious family problems.</p>
<p>I honorably bump.</p>
<p>I think it is more helpful if you tell us whihc classes are honors/regulars/APS.</p>
<p>Freshmen:</p>
<p>Geometry: A/A (Honors)
Civics: A/A (Honors)
English I: A/A (Honors)
French I: A/A (Honors)
Physics: A/A (Honors)</p>
<p>Sophormore:</p>
<p>Pre-Calc/Trig: A/A (Honors)
World History: A/B (AP)
English II: A/B (Honors)
French II: A/A (Honors)
Biology: B/B (Honors)</p>
<p>Junior:</p>
<p>Calculus: B/A (AP)
US History A/A (AP)
English III: B/A (AP)
French III: B/A (Honors)
Chemistry: B/A (Honors)</p>
<p>u were calculating ur unweighted gpa which is obviously lower than ur weighted gpa. most colleges look at weighted gpa.</p>
<p>Well, my weighted GPA is 4.0, but a lot of the colleges I've looked at say that the GPA is convereted to an unweighted scale.</p>
<p>If you had serious family problems, make sure to write the admissions committee about your problems and why your grades suffered as a result.</p>
<p>Thanks, I'm planning on it.</p>