ED Senior Quarter Grades and AP Physics 1

Heisenbergyk
Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:04:40 +0000

If you ED your first semester Senior grades won’t be looked at, just what your signed up for senior year. If AP physics is really dreadful for you (I had a simmilar problem with physics too-- good at every science but that and got a 34 ACT) I would drop it for the lower level. Ideally the time to drop would have been before you got a 1st semester grade in it, but I would say colleges care more about you succeeding and getting good grades than having one less impossible class. As for your low freshman grades, I wouldn’t say that puts you out at all! A upward trend is a really great thing, and NU has a additional comments section for students to explain academic difficulties/ personal struggles that I would recommend using to explain what happened freshman year, which usually helps them understand your transcript a lot better. Admissions isn’t stupid: they can see your full potential from Junior and a Sophomore year and aren’t going to tear you down based on whatever happened your freshman year. Having good activities is important too at this point: your grades are fine now and I would stop worrying about your overall Gpa and be more concerned about other parts of your app because NU doesn’t admit students that don’t do anything but school work. If NU is really your top choice, I would still consider ED because RD round is becoming impossible with over 15x more applicants than ED, if you want to have a realistic shot of getting in.