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[quote=Anonymous]NP.  It's all cumulative for the four years in FCPS so every grade counted.  The college or university won't even get to your record to see if you ascended or descended in grades until your cumulative is good.  The applications go in a file and the GPA and School go on the front (because an A from one school is not an A at another school) and the SAT or the ACT score.  That's it.  At most SLACs, your file will get 6 minutes review, top - that's if they even open the file.  So you have to have a strong cumulative (which means keep those 9th grades up!) to get the admissions officers to even open the file.  only then will they note if Johnny's grades improved over the four years or went down.  Our DC's grades went on a gradual descent over the 4 years due to SN issues, but because DC started strong, was able to do well in college placement.

I do know of one young man who did not get into Annapolis due to a C in freshman year band.  He had to go with ROTC at USC but his dad, a naval officer was devastated.
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