High School Sophomore Grades – What do I do??

RMNiMiTz
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 02:47:18 +0000

@thumper1

Seriously…you are worried because your GPA dropped from 4.0 to 3.88?

Sorry… but I think you need to take a chill pill.

Normally I would agree with you here, but since OP wants a top school, not just any normal school, I would have to say it does matter.

@lynnie99

I’m now worried that I won’t be able to get into one of the top schools

I have to say that a drop of .12 in GPA is actually quite a bit (especially when it comes to class rank). At my school, such a drop could mean between 10-15% of class rank changes. Had it been a drop from 4 to 3.98 (a .2) drop, it would have been negligible, but any drop over .1 in your GPA can matter, especially to top schools.

If OP wanted to apply to a state flagship (even if he is international), such a drop wouldn’t matter (there are plenty of good state schools out there also), but I believe that at the very top, such drops can mean the difference between acceptance and rejection, with so many top applicants vying for those schools.