My GPA weighted throughout high school was a 4.0 in freshman and sophmore year an a 4.5 junior year but unweighted it is about a 3.5 throughout all three years. Will colleges see this as a constant GPA or will they consider it an uptrend?
<p>Usually an upward trend refers to getting higher grades later on in high school. Taking harder courses and receiving the same grades does now show much improvement, but at least it isn’t a decline!</p>
<p>A slight and mildly significant upwards trend</p>
<p>what happens if you have a decline? I have one freshmen year average is 85.0 then 83.83, then 78.80. unwieghted.</p>
<p>i took 2 aps junior year which was a big hurdle for me</p>
<p>what if you have a steady GPA (like mid/high B) and then ur senior year you have an upward spike? how does that look?(asssuming that the college will see your 1st semster highschool grades)</p>
<p>This was my upward trend
3.61 weighted freshman year
4.8 weighted in soph
5.0 in junior</p>
<p>reason why freshman sucked was because I was given crummy teachers and I couldn’t really adjust well with the amount of work. That is a upward trend.</p>
<p>Why do colleges like upward trends?
what’s the catch?</p>
<p>do they despite downward trends?</p>
<p>I am the perfect example of someone with an upward trend. </p>
<p>Freshman Year: 90.8 (I slacked off)
Sophomore Year: 97.4</p>
<p>IceHockey, the problem with your upward trend, is that only your weighted GPA rose, which means you’re taking more difficult courses with each successive year. This is good but colleges look more at the unweighted GPA than the weighted one. It’ll be noted by colleges but it won’t be too significant. </p>
<p>Chanman, colleges like to see upward trends because it shows that a person is capable of working harder and changing their habits. Look at my upward trend. Tell me, it doesn’t signify anything. And yes, if you have a noticeable downward trend, it will be frowned upon.</p>
<p>Colleges realize that some middle schools do not always do the best job in preparing a student, sometimes a student goes from a small school to a giant one, sometimes freshmen do too much with sports, ecs, etc, and colleges realize that it might take some time to get into the groove, so upward trends show that the student is working harder, is “getting it” and is serious</p>
<p>it worked somewhat backwards for me. I joined the school (boarding school) with no friends so I just studied to pass the time. as i grew more acustomed to the school i started doing lots of sports, clubs, hanging out with friends, etc. </p>
<p>the school really became a part of me as i went on and i stopped be such a book worm, thus the downward trend. plus, i’ve been taking cosistently harder classes each year. regular -> honors -> aps -> almost all aps.</p>
<p>hope colleges will recognize this</p>
<p>ead - declines look pretty bad. Even if your classes have been progressively harder. Colleges would rather see you get an A in a regular course than a C in an AP. However, your course selection will not go unnoticed.</p>
<p>harry - that doesn’t really count as much of an upward trend, considering how your senior year grades are only one semester. However, it shows that you were able to organize yourself - with applications, classes, and activities - very well, which is worthy of commendation.</p>
<p>ug, So the kids taking easy courses who are getting A’s will be seen in a better light then a kid taking aps and getting Bs?</p>
<p>yeh 
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<p>No, colleges look at difficulty of schedule, that seems to be pretty important, all A with say ceramics, isn’t very impressive, as a full load of honors and APs with a few Bs</p>
<p>How would this look
UW- 3.66
3.82
3.76</p>
<p>W-4.0
4.35
4.42</p>
<p>citygirls, funny you should say that. Ceramics is one of the hardest classes at my school to get an A in!</p>