A good upward trend?

SlackerMomMD
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:08:52 +0000

I’m a pessimistic person so I’m going to say you need to take a very hard look at your grades, the Common Date Set of Berkeley, Stanford and whatever “elite” school you’re thinking. See where your grades and test scores fall. I will say if you have a 3.0-3.25 unweighted GPA, let go of the elite dream.

Like all students, it is more important for you to search for and find satiety and match schools. This is much more difficult than looking at high reach schools. Concentrate your efforts on creating a realistic list of good schools - look outside the usual suspects of top 26 schools - there are some hidden gems out there.

Remember when you apply, colleges will only have your grades through junior year, maybe first semester senior year. The projected final senior weighted GPA is meaningless.