<p>“So honors will help me if weighted and unweighted gpa are reported.”</p>
<p>If your school notes on the transcript that the course is an honors or an Advanced Placement (AP) course, it will help you, no matter what. I imagine that most schools incorporate that data into the name of the course, such as Honors English 10, or AP English Language and Composition.</p>
<p>Harvard will look at your grades as well as the courses in which you earned your grades. They will also look at your school profile. School profiles routinely include information on the breadth and depth of the school’s curriculum. Thus, the school may list the AP courses offered there, along with at least a summary of the rest of courses offered.</p>
<p>Harvard (and other selective schools) will look to see whether you consistently challenged yourself with courses that represented the top of your school’s curricular choices.</p>
<p>Getting mostly As and a B here and there by taking all the toughest courses will typically be considered more favorably than getting all As and taking a less rigorous courseload.</p>
<p>However, getting a 2.37 isn’t going to get one into any selective school.</p>
<p>That being said, if this was your freshman year, if you really did have extenuating circumstances, and you really prove it by excelling in your sophomore, junior, and first half of your senior years, the upward trend will count for a lot and will significantly diminish the horror of that first year.</p>
<p>You will also need great standardized test scores and a bunch more stuff, and even then, remember, around 19 out of every 20 applicants are rejected at Harvard.</p>
<p>Also, looking at your posts here, if this is at all representative of how you usually write, you will need to improve your composition skills. I know that Internet fora are usually an informal means of communications, but really…</p>