Gpa

Applying to College
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<p>Okay, I know that I’m so annoyed about the whole concept because of my averageish GPA but here we go…</p>

<p>I don’t understand why your GPA holds such an importance…it just seems strange to me how people may have a perfect GPA but not take the tough classes…how are colleges supposed to judge accurately? This year I’m doing an independent study and that doesn’t go into my GPA, so my GPA is brought down (assuming I would get an A) because I have B’s in other classes. And lastly, if you are a student aide at my school, some credits get added into your GPA and it makes it a tiny bit higher.</p>

<p>What I’m trying to say that everything seems so subjective (also TEACHERS, a lot of the classes at my school have extremely difficult teachers/easy teachers teaching the same class), and there is such a large emphasis on your GPA.</p>

<p>More personally…
I have like a 3.6ish GPA (prob going to be a 3.5 by the end of the year), 4.1 weighted. I feel like I ****ed myself over. Senior year, I’m probably going to get one B at the most…but I don’t know if that really matters…with some decent EC’s and an SAT hopefully over 2200, will my GPA really hinder me? (I don’t want to go to Ivy’s, but still considerably good colleges).</p>

<p>Thanks and sorry if it sounds like I’m whining here!</p>

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<p>I understand with the annoying GPA problem, but a lot of schools tend to calculate their own “GPA” by figuring out what your school offers, what you have taken, the difficultly of the courses you’ve taken in relation to what your school offers, and how well you’ve done in those classes. </p>

<p>If I were you, I wouldn’t stress too much. If you’ve shown that you’ve taken challenging classes, proven yourself competent at them compared to someone else in your grade who hasn’t taken the most difficult class/yet gets A’s on all of their class/subsequently has a ridiculous GPA, the colleges will understand (excuse the run-on sentence). </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks so much. Yeah, I don’t know, it’s really hard for me not to stress about these things, but it’s like…at this point I can’t change it I guess. I just can’t help thinking that I would have that upward trend, higher GPA, blahblahblah if I hadn’t done independent study (which I do enjoy) and just taken the lower physics class.</p>

<p>Also does anyone know how colleges view independent studies? I just couldn’t fit the drawing class in my schedule but I do virtually the exact same thing as them…just slower…</p>