There is a kid whose mom is a friend of my mom. He goes to my school, and we’re not friends but we know each other well and our moms gossip about their kids a lot. He took about the same classes as me freshmen year, or last semester, two honors classes and the rest were all regular. I did pretty well in them, getting A’s and B’s to amount to a 3.5 GPA total. He did not do well, he slacked off playing with his friends.
He got a D and then 2 B’s and 3 A’s first semester, and then two D’s and a C and then the rest A’s the next semester. The D’s he got were all in honors classes. I encouraged him to just retake the ones that he failed over the summer, and he did, he retook all his D’s on online classes and in summer school. He managed to his 2 of his D’s to A’s, and he’s retaking another D to turn into an A and doing well in that class. I think he was also retaking the class he got a C in.
I realized that those new grades replace his old grades and turn his GPA to a much higher one, and I just thought it was really unfair. I tried really hard freshmen year, and he didn’t. I know I’m coming off as whiny, but I’m just frustrated that I put all this hard work into these honors classes and he gets to retake them to get a higher GPA than me in a non-honors class. Summer classes in my district are known to be really easy.
So I guess this sounds really spiteful and I know I’m a terrible person for asking, but my question is that can colleges see that he failed his classes and retook them over the summer to get a better grade? Like do they see his transcript and see what happened? Or do they not look at the freshman transcripts and only care about GPA?
I think it depends on how your school lists it in the transcripts.
However, you need to ignore it like static and focus on getting the best grades you can, period. You can’t change what happens with someone else’s grades.
There are tens of thousands of other applicants you’ll be competing with to get a seat in a college. In all honesty, you shouldn’t be worrying with how good another person can make his application; you should be focusing on yourself and thinking about what you can do to stand out.
Is everyone else at your school worrying about this kid? No. I’m not trying to sound harsh, but you really should be trying to showcase your abilities as best you can to the schools you want to get into–and not trying to downgrade every other applicant you come across. He’s just another applicant in the admissions pool.
LOL you told him to do it. Why would it bother you
@sensation723 I did tell him to do it, but he’s just been gloating about how he was doing better than me and I just got upset. I guess it doesn’t matter anyways.
@mom2twogirls Thank you, that answers my question.
@DaedricSaiyan Thanks, that actually makes me feel better. I guess I was getting too emotional and stuck on this one guy when that doesn’t matter.
dunno if colleges really look at your freshman transcripts? I thought they didn’t care as much about freshman grades. Or maybe I’m just thinking about UC schools haha. I would just forget about that guy and focus on yourself. You probably won’t even see the guy later in life. If he’s a slacker in school and only picks up the pace when it’s crucial, that’s not a really good method to go through life. Just keep pushing yourself and do well on your SATs and ACTs.
Hope that helped, I guess that didn’t really answer your question.