2.8 GPA someone please help

Nocureforthis
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:27:48 +0000

thanks for all the input, keep it brutally honest. If it matter, I will have higher grades in the courses related to the college i am applying to i.e. A+ in physics which is dragged down by a B+ in USH. Johns hopkins also used to accept a lot of kids from our school, 20+ or so per year that applied. I do believe i have what it takes to write an outstanding essay, however I’m also wondering how much this improvement will matter in the end. Obviously junior year is the most important, if not hardest year, will i still be judged on the 4 year standard? If my GPA were to suddenly rise to a 3.7+ in junior year, is there any hope that colleges would only then judge based on the improvement, or will i be dragged down? I’ve also been looking through the applied/accepted on the site and have noticed a few kids got in with far from ideal GPAs and test scores. For example:
740, 650, 610, 3.4 GPA and another person with a 3.6 GPA. I’m sure there are more, but obviously there are also a lot of people who got rejected with similar if not higher grades. Also the two main schools i was going to apply to are CMU and JHU, the others were just dreams. Once again, all advice/input is welcome. I’ll chance back