<p>For scholarships, if the minimum requirements for a presidential scholarship is a 95 GPA and a around a 2100 on the SAT and my GPA is a 94.9 (because I was a bum in my accelerated 8th grade classes) and my SAT is around a 2300, could a school make an exception?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Your 8th grade classes generally do not count in your high school gpa. But, yes, some schools do make some exception sometimes. But all schools do not make all exceptions all of the time.</p>
<p>Call up the committee that handles such scholarships and ask.</p>
<p>What school is this?</p>
<p>Why are you including an 8th grade class?</p>
<p>Apply to some other schools that will give large merit for your stats.</p>
<p>If Golasgil’s school is like ours here, the accelerated 8th grade classes referred to may be HS classes that advanced students take while still in Middle School. Our D2 and S took accelerated classes in Math and Spanish and had HS credit and a HS GPA before they actually started HS. If that’s the case with Golasgil, I think those classes will indeed count towards the actual GPA. As others have said, it’s up to the individual school if they will consider you for their scholarship when you’re that close to the listed requirements. Call and ask to be sure. As Mom2CK said though, there are many universities which will offer you merit aid for the excellent stats you have so make sure you cast a wide enough net to include some financial safety schools. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>Since most schools repost GPA on a 4.0 scale (or modified 4.0 with weighted averages), that’s what colleges use. They are most likely to translate that 94.9 to a 4.0 scale as an “A” which is the same as a 95. If you’re this concerned, contact the college and ask them whether your 8th grade classes will be counted in the first place, and how they will treat your non-traditional GPA. Many selective colleges recalculate GPA for their own purposes, stripping non-academic classes, and eliminating weighting. If they do that, they are likely to strip those 8th grade classes (some even ignore 9th grade classes).</p>
<p>Be aware that most high schools have a special transcript that they send out to colleges. Ask to see a sample and see what is on there. Many times 8th grade courses are dropped on that transcript and not included in the high school gpa. At my son’s school, junior year, each kid gets a copy of that college app transcript so that they can see exactly what the colleges are seeing and what they are not, and to correct for any errors. Colleges don’t care that you took Latin 1 in Middle School. They are very interested that you have two AP Latins done in your four years of high schools but how you did it is not of their concern unless there is some interesting story to it. If you take a highschool lab course like Biology in 8th grade, it may be a good thing to have it on your transcript if you did not take an AP Bio course afterwards,as colleges love to see that Holy Trinity of sciences taken (Bio, Chem, Physics) . If you went on in Bio, it is not important. </p>
<p>Most selective colleges redo your gpa into a form standard to the way they evaluate because they are going to see grading systems from all over the place. How can you compare someone from a 5.0 scale to someone on a 4.0 one and some schools weight, and others do not.</p>
<p>If it is a private school they may very well choose to round up. Ask.</p>
<p>If this is for the UB Presidential Scholarship, I would ask when you request the application for it. I think there were a few people who said they applied despite being a few points short and made it to the interview stage because their essays were good and they were interesting people. It never hurts to ask (but don’t say you were a bum when you ask)</p>