Every year my first semester has been bad, but my second semester track record has been amazing.
Fresh:
1st; 3.0 2nd: 4.0
Soph:
1st:3.2 2nd: 3.8
Junior:
1st: 3.0 2nd: 3.75
Will colleges dislike the up and down trend between my semesters? Will a good senior first semester make up for that?
Note:
First semester of freshman year, my school had been using a new gradebook system to let us check grades. However, since I had a common combo of first initial last name, there were unique number combos. I knew my email address, but even after 5 different password resets I couldn’t log on to the gradebook. Turns out the manager entered my user name wrong and missed one number. Didn’t know my grades until after finals were done, so I couldn’t keep track.
1st sem jr:
Had to deal with headaches, heart problems, flu, high blood pressure, and hypertension on finals week. Focusing was incredibly difficult and I had missed the cutoff for rounding by a few tenths of a point so I got all Bs. I had high hopes for colleges but looks like I might have to hold back…
Do you have some kind of Extracurricular that takes up your time during the Fall? Do you get affected by health issues in the fall like allergies or some such?
Yeah I have a sport during the fall along with the other groups I’m in having lots of fall events. The ailments I got as a Jr weren’t from allergies they were mostly related to my blood pressure. @bopper
You should talk to your guidance counselor and ask what grades are included on the transcript sent to colleges. Our HS only sends final grades so the colleges would not see the semester variations.
“Had to deal with headaches, heart problems, flu, high blood pressure, and hypertension”
Next time get a flu shot. However, the headaches, high blood pressure and hypertension are signs that you are under too much stress. I think that you need to try to keep the stress down. Find some time to relax.
I think that your grades will get you into a pretty good school (not Ivy League, but that is fine – there is no good reason to go to an ivy league school). However, you are going to need your heart for a long time. Take care of it.
The US puts way too much stress on our high school kids, and each student needs to find a way to stay on an even keel.
@dadtwogirls yeah I’m definitely not considering ivies. I stand no chance as I am not a URM and I don’t have ivy calibre extracurriculars. The schools I’m considering are pretty competitive though.
@happy1 my school sends the entire transcript which shows semester grades