4.07 GPA after Sophomore year

[Anonymous]

Base school plus magnet.

How is this?
Not a troll, in all honesty.

[Anonymous]

3.55 done with high school. Onto trade school

[Anonymous]

Should have taken PE pass/fail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Base school plus magnet.

How is this?
Not a troll, in all honesty.

What is this?

[Anonymous]

These days 95% of all kids have over a 4.0. In fact, 4.0 is equivalent to a 3.0 before grade inflation.

[Anonymous]

Prepare for your future as a proud parent of a janitor! Maybe a trash collector, or working along side migrant workers on a farm. With those grades, all hope is lost!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prepare for your future as a proud parent of a janitor! Maybe a trash collector, or working along side migrant workers on a farm. With those grades, all hope is lost!

I hope this is not sarcasm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Base school plus magnet.

How is this?
Not a troll, in all honesty.

How is this - in terms of admissions to UVa or UMD?

Bad.

But say u are ok applying to GMU and some other state flagships like Ohio State or some privates like Rochester Inst of Tech - you will get a admit

[Anonymous]

What is the REAL GPA? The GPA you posted is weighted with either HONORS or AP bumps

[Anonymous]

Op here,

Gpa got updated :

Unweighted gpa as sophomore is 3.79

All Student Cumulative - 4.1

Now I didnt even have to ask here.
It is bad.

[Anonymous]

Email the counselor and ask what the school profile shows for the low and high range GPA for your child's year. It will give you an idea. At our HS, more than half had over a 4.0 at graduation and the highest GPA was a 4.6+ in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Email the counselor and ask what the school profile shows for the low and high range GPA for your child's year. It will give you an idea. At our HS, more than half had over a 4.0 at graduation and the highest GPA was a 4.6+ in FCPS.

Thanks- will find this out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

Gpa got updated :

Unweighted gpa as sophomore is 3.79

All Student Cumulative - 4.1

Now I didnt even have to ask here.
It is bad.

No. It’s not. GPA jumps a lot junior year when kids start picking up a full load of AP classes— if they do well. Also, for reference, that was my completely unhooked DD’s GPA after junior year. Took a lot of foreign language (7 years worth just in HS) and 4 years of orchestra— which is a lot of unweighted credit. Admitted to WM ED. While not an Ivy, it has certainly a great destination for her. Take a deep breath. It will be okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

Gpa got updated :

Unweighted gpa as sophomore is 3.79

All Student Cumulative - 4.1

Now I didnt even have to ask here.
It is bad.

No. It’s not. GPA jumps a lot junior year when kids start picking up a full load of AP classes— if they do well. Also, for reference, that was my completely unhooked DD’s GPA after junior year. Took a lot of foreign language (7 years worth just in HS) and 4 years of orchestra— which is a lot of unweighted credit. Admitted to WM ED. While not an Ivy, it has certainly a great destination for her. Take a deep breath. It will be okay.

Wow .
Thanks gives me hope.
How did she get 7 years worth foreign language credit? Was 3 years in middle school?
Congrats on your daughter’s admission to WM. Thats a great school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

Gpa got updated :

Unweighted gpa as sophomore is 3.79

All Student Cumulative - 4.1

Now I didnt even have to ask here.
It is bad.

No. It’s not. GPA jumps a lot junior year when kids start picking up a full load of AP classes— if they do well. Also, for reference, that was my completely unhooked DD’s GPA after junior year. Took a lot of foreign language (7 years worth just in HS) and 4 years of orchestra— which is a lot of unweighted credit. Admitted to WM ED. While not an Ivy, it has certainly a great destination for her. Take a deep breath. It will be okay.

Wow .
Thanks gives me hope.
How did she get 7 years worth foreign language credit? Was 3 years in middle school?
Congrats on your daughter’s admission to WM. Thats a great school.

Nope. No MS foreign language. 4 Years of Latin in HS— but her Latin teacher had her skip level 4 in favor of AP. Then picked up a Romance language junior year. Did year 2 between junior and senior and went into year 3 as a senior. So did 8 years and got class credit for 7. The Latin helped a lot with the second language and with doing level 2 over the summer (as did it being summer 2020, so not much else to do). And, spent summer 2019 doing a third foreign language through an NSA critical languages program and did not get class credit. Also did 11 humanities APs and 0 STEM APs (and only 3 years of science) but her primary EC, besides music, was heavily STEM based.

Now a double major in IR and a non-Romance critical language. Loves what she’s doing. Loves WM. And living her best life. In fact, overseas this summer doing language immersion. I’m guessing she got into WM because she looked different on paper than her peers? WM likes different/interesting. And, because she was clearly doing what she loved. She knew exactly where she was heading early. I stepped back and let it happen. Very thankful it all came together in college admissions.

Anyway, don’t get hung up on a number. Especially at smaller schools, she’ll get the chance to show them the person behind the number. And there will be a great school where that person fits.