Hello, if I put this in the wrong place, I’m sorry. I am worried about scholarships and also one final school I still have to submit an app for. I just need someone to tell me how bad this is.
I’m a dual enrollment student, doing full time high school and college credits at my CC. after calculating my GPA, I will have a 3.6 GPA for this semester, 1 B (5 credit course) and 3 As. I previously had a cumulative 3.9 GPA so I don’t know how to figure out my new cumulative GPA because that was my high school calculated GPA with less credits per class. I’m guessing it brought it down to 3.7 now. Which is devastating to me. I feel like I won’t be able to find any scholarships now (external and institutional). A lot want at least a 3.8+. The final school I’m applying to is Lafayette College. I didn’t think I had a good chance before, now it’d be a miracle if I got in.
I guess I’m just asking for some type of support, and if you have any pointers for figuring out my new GPA, that’d be great. I looked online and couldn’t find anything for my situation.
Why don’t you ask your GC at your high school or a counselor at the college to help you figure out your new GPA? You can’t change things. You just persevere and hope for the best. Meanwhile, I assume you have applied to some safety and match schools. No idea about the rest of your stats, but have you consdered Dickinson? My D had a GPA of 3.75 and a high tests core. She recieved a very good scholarship from Dickinson. If you like Lafayette, I think Dickinson shares many similarities. Now stop feeling sorry for youself. You may not get into Lafayette, but then again, you may. Your grades are good. There will be plenty of colleges that will want you.
P.S. A lot of the LACs like demonstrated interest. Be sure you are showing it.
Lafayette looks for more than just your GPA, IMO. I would look at similar LACs to it as well- maybe Lewis & Clark, Elon?
You should ask your guidance counselor.
Your high school may give you credit for the college classes without counting them toward your high school GPA, in which case you would have two completely separate high school and college GPAs. Colleges will still consider all your grades, of course.
If the college classes are counted into your GPA, you can calculate your unweighted GPA the normal way as long as you know how many high school credits each college class is worth. (Keep in mind that high school credits, i.e. Carnegie units, are not the same as college credit hours. Most high school classes are worth one Carnegie unit, whereas most college classes are worth three or four credit hours.) For weighted GPA, if your school has it, you will also need to know how the college classes are weighted compared to AP and honors classes.
My high school said 1 college credit hour = 0.2 high school credits, so my nine four-credit-hour college classes were only worth 7.2 high school credits. This means they didn’t affect my GPA as much as the same number of high school classes would have.
Crudely, if you had 3.9 for six semesters and 3.6 for one, your GPA should be about (3.9*6 + 3.6)/5 ~ 3.86. I’m assuming that you earned the exact same amount of high school credit hours each semester, which is probably not the case.
Thank you everyone, I recently found out that I did indeed make all As this semester. Phew, that worry is gone now.