<p>Freshman: 4.0/4.0
Sophomore: 3.8/4.0
Junior: 3.3/3.8 <----Four Bs first semester and 1 b second semester (all APs)
Senior: 4.0
Total: 3.9/4.0 WGPA:4.4/4.5</p>
<p>Luckily for me because I got a 5 on my Calc and Stats AP tests, two of the four Bs Junior Year first semester turned into 5s making my GPA around 3.7. But assuming that it stayed a 3.3, how bad would that look to a college?</p>
<p>The first semester of Junior year was really tough for me and second semester took a lot of work out of me. Is my "downward" trend bad enough that schools will reject me as a result of it?</p>
<p>With a 3.3 first semester would a "lower" high tier school like Hopkins G'town Rice still consider me or would they be automatically thrown off? </p>
<p>I know that my GPA isnt the only factor but assuming that everything else was up to par, how much of a negative effect would it have on me?</p>
<p>How would your AP test score affect your GPA?</p>
<p>Of course this hurts. Junior year is easily the most important year. How much it hurts depends on the strength of the rest of your application. Think of it this way, there’s a legion, and I mean a legion of 4.0 students out there vying for seats in those colleges. What do you have to compensate? If you’ve got something, then you shouldn’t worry much. If not…</p>
<p>Your total GPA is a 3.9…You had a rough junior year. Honestly, it isn’t a big deal. Colleges don’t look at JUST junior year. It’s cumulative.
Wait…what grade are you even in? You are all done with Junior year and done with the fist semester of senior year but haven’t applied to schools yet? What?</p>
<p>I recognize that it will hurt ( I hoped to have made that clear) but my question was to what extent it would hurt. Furthermore, perhaps I did not specify this well enough, but I was trying to find out if the downward trend itself would play a major role in admissions. I have heard tons of people say that colleges hate downward trends but I am not sure if my pattern fulfills all the requirements for a downward trend. My GPA went up from sophomore semester 1 to semester two as did my junior year semesters and my senior year GPA was higher than my junior year second semester GPA. Do you guys think my GPA would be called a downward trend? If so will it have a significant impact on my admissions process.
To clarify the AP to Grade relations question - my teachers have a policy that states that if you are within 1% (sometimes two percent) of an A during the semester, meaning 89% or at times an 88%, and you receive a 5 on the AP test, then they give you an A for the semester.</p>
<p>JayJay: I can see how this is a bit confusing. This is actually a close friend of mine’s situation. What he is doing is actually kind of cool. He doing this program where he works for Congress as a paige for this second semester senior year, through the summer and through what would have been his first semester senior year. He did not apply to college this year because he knew he would not be attending. He essentially is taking “a year off” and then applying to college the year after.</p>