please help! looking for possible safety schools

mom2collegekids
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:09:23 +0000

I would talk to the GC about possibly weighing your GPA and putting in on your transcript.

You have this really good ACT score, but your unweighted GPA is going to hurt you. Your ACT is 96th percentile but your GPA drags that down. It might suggest to a school that you score well on tests, but don’t work hard in school (which isn’t the case.)

Since you’re looking for safety schools, those schools haven’t seen your transcript yet, so the GC request might work for those. Explain to your GC that schools often used weighted GPAs for admission and scholarship consideration, so by not weighting grades, the school may be actually hindering their students.