<p>I suggest I want to do premed in an essay but have a bad HS gpa? </p>
<p>I have good test scores, but my HS gpa is probably at the 25th percentile. Oh, and I've earned a few B's in math. :(</p>
<p>Having a low high school gpa will hurt you. Do you have a low h.s. gpa?</p>
<p>Colleges know that most students major in something completely different than they anticipated majoring in as high school students, so your predicted choice of major won’t count against you. Having a low h.s. gpa could, though, hurt you.</p>
<p>It’s not ridiculously low. It’s a 3.8. </p>
<p>I understand that it’s still going to be risky, but I do have quite a few EC’s and my test scores are at the 75th percentile. I’m hoping that will somewhat offset the gpa problem.</p>
<p>I also got 5’s on a bunch of AP tests, so I’m hoping that will add some perspective to the B+'s?</p>
<p>Sounds like you go to some kind of school that attracts high achieving students, so I doubt your rank will hurt you unless you’re applying to public colleges that fill up their classes with students in the top 10% of their high school class.</p>
<p>Yeah, my school’s not bad. It’s not one of the “top 50 on the state” type of schools, but there is a group of students that performs well. </p>
<p>And my school doesn’t rank anymore. However, it used to list rank based off the unweighted gpa (which is really annoying because there actually are a bunch of people who take 0-1 AP/honors classes and have a high gpa).</p>