Freshmen Year GPA

DadTwoGirls
Wed, 22 May 2019 03:21:49 +0000

The biggest issue is not the impact that this will have on college admissions. Colleges and universities know that kids are, well, kids. Different people grow up at different rates. Your freshman year of high school will be much less important than your sophomore and junior years of high school in terms of being accepted to a very good university. If you do well for the next two years, then college admissions folks will see that you turned yourself around and became a good student starting with your sophomore year.

However, what matters is that you understand why you got a 2.9 GPA, and that you have a practical and realistic plan to do better next year. You need to learn to take every class seriously, and to keep ahead in your homework. You also need to know what to do when a class is particularly difficult. Usually this means seeking out extra help, for example by talking to your teacher about how to get extra help.

It is also possible that you might be behind in some areas. For example, what you study next year in math is likely to depend upon and expand upon what you studied this year. Similarly, assuming that you are studying a language, they will assume that you know what you were supposed to learn this year when they start teaching next year’s classes.

If you can do well from now on, then you will have good chances of being admitted to many very good universities.