<p>Hi. I've been a consistently good student with about a 3.5 GPA and a bunch of honors and AP courses. I've been an ASB officer since 9th grade, I'm an officer of FBLA, and very involved in DECA. I've placed regionally in both FBLA and DECA competitions. I've won many awards for outstanding leadership and citizenship. Great right?</p>
<p>However 2nd semester this year I got infected with a brain infection that caused me to miss a month and a half of school. I also continue to go to the hospital every few weeks and have to miss additional days of school. Due to the lack of attendance, my makeup work continues to pile while I also try to keep up with the work that's currently being assigned. So far my grades for the 2nd Semester of my junior year might lower my cumulative GPA to a 3.1 or so. </p>
<p>How will this affect my application? Is it better to get my counselor to try to put P for passing on any lower grades or keep the grades on my transcript? </p>
<p>p.s Sorry if this is the wrong space. I didn't know where to post it. :]</p>
<p>Dude. You got a BRAIN INFECTION. Colleges will understand if your grades suffered a little. Your counselor will write a letter to explain, and you should be fine.</p>
<p>I agree with lookbeyond.
I hope you’re recovering well.</p>
<p>Thanks alot for your opinions. I’m just worried that the colleges should have thought I put more effort into my makeup work or trying to make my grades spectacular.</p>
<p>Well, schools might look down on you for never placing at the state/national level for FBLA/DECA.</p>
<p>I kid, I kid. Seriously though, the grades will hurt if they preclude you from scholarships/automatic admission in certain schools. And a 3.5 isn’t that great either, so if the adcoms ignore the 3.1, they probably won’t be particularly impressed in the 3.5 either. The application will have to depend on the ECs/essay. Of course, if you’re applying to a selective college your ECs will shine but that 3.1/3.5 will hurt, and at a less selective one they pretty much only care about gpa/test scores and put little weight on other stuff, so who knows.</p>