I’ am applying to Columbia, Cornell and penn which are all IVY league and I’m also applying to NY and Arizona. My GPA is a 3.60 and by the end of the year if I keep my grades up like a plane to I will have around a 3.74, which I know is a stretch for Ivy league schools but I’m still going to try. Anyway I don’t have the 3.74 yet, I have a 3.60 which is what I have to use when applying to all these highly competitive classes, so I was wondering if these schools take into fact that I My GPA will be higher by the end of senior year then it is now or will they only use my current GPA to accept or reject me. I know that when Colleges accept you, they ask you to send them your senior transcript after senior year, that scares me because it means they based their dissuasion on your current GPA.
They will use your current GPA. You had three and a half years to raise it. It is what it is.
If you apply RD they will see how you did first semester and an upward trend is a positive – but they will make an admissions decision before your final GPA is calculated.
Your final semester does not matter unless you take a gap year.
For just as many, it will go down. Senior slump!
But if you work hard and bring it up, and if you find yourself on a WL, you will have a chance to show them that improvement.
But the schools use only what has actually happened to date – no crystal ball projections.
Agreed. They are not going to play the wishing-and-hoping game.