<p>Hey guys so I'm aiming for Georgetown U, and I really messed up my freshman year due to personal issues and I had trouble with the transition. My GPA was a 3.3 (i know, awful). I really improved a lot during sophomore (4.1 W. 3.9 UW) and junior year though (4.25 W, 3.8 UW), I also took 4 AP's during 10/11 grade so I've really gotten better.
Will Gtown just see the cumulative GPA, which would end up being around a 3.6/7 or do they see each year independently? Will they forgive it or is my application now damaged?</p>
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<li><p>You will send colleges your HS transcript, think about how it looks.</p></li>
<li><p>Use the Search function on this forum for either ‘upward’ or ‘trend’. You will find lots of threads that ask what you did because its a FAQ. </p></li>
<li><p>Please take some time to read sticky threads, current threads, and use the Search function.</p></li>
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<p>They’re given your weighted GPA, but they often recalculate your GPA to an unweighted or something on their scale to competitively scale students. (e.g. A 5.6 on a 6.0 scale will not be seen as better than a 4.6 on a 5.0 scale)</p>
<p>Actually, they’ll see whatever your particular high school sends them–ask your guidance counselor to show you the form of transcript that is used. (But I’m 99% sure that each year’s grades would show on any school’s version.)</p>
<p>Assume that Georgetown (and other colleges and universities) will see whatever your high school sends them on your transcripts. Not all high schools’ transcripts look alike, but you can ask your guidance counselor what your school’s looks like, and what information is reported on it.</p>
<p>No matter what kind of GPA is reported, assume that Georgetown (and other colleges and universities) won’t just look at your GPA. They’ll read your transcript. They’ll look at the kinds of classes you took and the grades you received. That matters more than the mere number that is your GPA. And since you’ve done well after a rocky start, this works to your benefit.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, another number may work against you: the number of students who apply to Georgetown. In 2011 almost 20,000 people applied for freshman admission to Georgetown; about 3500 of them were admitted to make a freshman class of about 1600 (<a href=“https://gushare.georgetown.edu/PlanningAndInstitutionalResearch/Public%20-%20Website/CDS_2011-2012.pdf?uniq=-wv5gve[/url]”>https://gushare.georgetown.edu/PlanningAndInstitutionalResearch/Public%20-%20Website/CDS_2011-2012.pdf?uniq=-wv5gve</a>). Georgetown certainly could fill an entire entering class (perhaps several times over) with only applicants who never had a bad year in school. This isn’t necessarily what they’ll do. They probably will take some applicants who had a bad year because there is something about those applicants that makes them more appealing to Georgetown than some of the students who never did. But if you’re going to be one of those fortunate applicants, you’ll have to figure out what it is about you that will make you appealing to Georgetown, and you’ll have to do a good job of highlighting it in your application.</p>
<p>(x-post with MommaJ)</p>
<p>Colleges will see what your high school sends them. What they do with it differs from school to school.</p>
<p>thanks guys :)</p>