<p>I just finished my sophomore year and it seems to be the case that a trend in my grades has appeared that I was hoping at the beginning of the year wouldn’t happen. But, oh well, c’est la vie.</p>
<p>For the first semester, all my classes are an Okidoki soup of A’s and B’s. Suddenly, a couple of C’s and D’s invade my grades in the second semester and the A’s and B’s become lower-A’s and lower-B’s. </p>
<p>The bad news is that my unweighed GPA stands at an 86.625% (100 scale). I made my own excel sheet for my grades, and I calculate that even my optimistic grade forecasts for each of my classes next year will not have any hope of getting my unweighed GPA up to a 90 by the end of junior year, but the good (or meh) news is that my weighed GPA should stand above a 95. </p>
<p>So basically my grades are like:</p>
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<p>I’m not sure if I should attribute it to outright fatigue during second semesters. And if this must be the case, how do I justify my trend due to fatigue to colleges?</p>
<p>I was honestly about to ask the same question, except the opposite. </p>
<p>My grades every time every class increase second semester. In fact, if a college were to only look at my second semester grades I wouldn’t even worry. how would a college react to this trend?</p>
<p>uhmm don’t your grades look something like this then ^^^ since they get high first semester and then drop second semester?</p>
<p>Fatigue is not a good thing. If I were you, I wouldn’t mention it in your essays. The only things to mention are perhaps family deaths, divorces, major illnesses, and the such in explaining poor grades. Apart from that, there’s no need in pointing out poor grades. Colleges are probably not going to look favorably on grades that dip half-way into the school year. But since it’s only sophomore year, just focus on doing as well as you can from now on and also work on other aspects of your app - clubs, testing, etc.</p>