Freshman year in high school.

halcyonheather
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:36 +0000

What classes did you get lower grades in? Your grades are fine NOW, but if you have trouble in certain classes that trend could continue in the future.

A 3.8-3.9 unweighted will not look bad on your college apps, because those are great GPAs to begin with, especially since you took pre-calc and physics as a freshman. But don’t expect your overall cumulative GPA at the beginning of senior year to be exactly the same as your freshman year GPA after the first semester.

Weighted GPA means nothing except in calculating class rank at your school. You should take the most challenging classes possible, but don’t worry about your weighted GPA as a number. Every school calculates it differently. My school doesn’t weight at all.