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How much weight do colleges put on Senior grades in High school?

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Antoneo

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I have overloaded myself with stuff this year. AP's, additional sciences, and joined my track team for another year. All this has cut into my grades a bit. I'm not doing horrendous like it seems like I'm partying but not as well as my other years. Now I was wondering, do colleges place a considerable amount of weight on senior grades? I have about 88 average (maybe 86 by the end of senior year 🙁) and am applying to Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Rochester Institure of Technology, Cooper Union, and Polytechnic in Brooklyn, NY.
ARG!!!! I hate myself for not putting more effort into my work.
 
when i was in high school (last year) i heard they look more at your junior year then senior year

but i don't know if there's any truth to that
 
In 4 years, nobody will give a fvck about your high school grades. Getting a job is a matter of selling yourself, not your college, so in the grand scheme, it doesn?t matter, unless you wont be cool enough or something if you don?t get in to one of these colleges. If that?s the case, and getting into any of these colleges depends on excellent grades, then you better keep the grades up, as the colleges will look at your whole HS career.
 


<< How much weight do colleges put on Senior grades in High school? >>



We talkin' punds or kilograms?
 


<< when i was in high school (last year) i heard they look more at your junior year then senior year

but i don't know if there's any truth to that >>


Yeah that's true and I am pretty sure I will get into one of these schools hopefully RPI. If I get accepted and I send in the Midyear Report with grades from my first term of Senior year included, will they reject me if I dropped like 2 points? Anything like that happened to anyone here?
 
They put little weight on especially the second semester senior grades, because by that time you are already accepted usually. Of course, if you fail or do uncharacteristically horrible, then they MIGHT reverse the acceptance, but that is highly unlikely.


I'm in my second year of college now, and it doesn't really matter AT ALL what grades I had in HS, except for AP credit
 
Try and keep your grades up. If you're overloaded, talk to your teachers, see what they suggest. Guidance counselors can help too.
 


<< In 4 years, nobody will give a fvck about your high school grades. Getting a job is a matter of selling yourself, not your college, so in the grand scheme, it doesn?t matter, unless you wont be cool enough or something if you don?t get in to one of these colleges. If that?s the case, and getting into any of these colleges depends on excellent grades, then you better keep the grades up, as the colleges will look at your whole HS career. >>



if i was an employer, and i had two otherwise equal job applicants, do you think i would take the one from some community college, or the one that went to harvard?
 
dude, i should smack you for worrying about 2 points. Pst......Im freeking getting a D in 3 classes (according to my midterm warning)

STUPID COMMIES, STOP SCREWING WITH ME
 


<< Try and keep your grades up. If you're overloaded, talk to your teachers, see what they suggest. Guidance counselors can help too. >>


Thanks but I think it's too late to drop a class🙁. It usually doesn't look good to colleges because then I look like a quitter. Guidance yeah.... but they are usually overloaded. I go to a underfunded school (Bronx Science) and I really wish they would receive more money. Arg.. I guess if I managed my time more efficiently I would do a bit better. Good thing Christmas vacation starts next week. I have to catch up on a lot of stuff.
 
I graduate from college in April. Things I have learned from my past 4 years:
1. HS grades help you get into college, then you quickly forget most aspects of HS.
2. As long as you didn't drop considerably (like someone would definately raise an eyebrow in reaction to) they aren't going to rescind their offer. My school made me send a final transcript as well. Like A average dropping to a C average.
3. Some say knowing what you want to do as a major right away is necessary, some don't. I wish I would have known earlier. I could have been more focused (since focus is more difficult with so many distractions) and done a lot better.
and,
4. School name matters a lot of you want to go into the corporate world.
The last two are primarily bitching and moaning comments since I can't find a frickin job.

All this knowledge and some other odds and ends that don't directly apply, like when you're DD and someone says they're going to puke, you pull over right away, not at the next exit. But all that is irrelevant.
 
beer and pizza make kami fat 🙁


oh wait...we're not talking about "the freshman 15"? (it's totally true btw)

sorry for the OT post 🙂 first thing that sprang to mind when i glanced over your topic
 
You're first semester of senior year is important, but you'll get your acceptances for college before you even finish the 2nd semester anyway.
 
I applied and got accepted to Penn State before my first quarter grades even came out. Once I got the acceptance letter, SEVERE senioritis took over...didn't do sh!t the rest of the school year. All that mattered was that I didn't get any D averages...no biggie.
 
if i was an employer, and i had two otherwise equal job applicants, do you think i would take the one from some community college, or the one that went to harvard?

I say if someone that went to community college instead of harvard and ended up with the exact same education, the community college student either worked harder or was smarter to begin with.
 


<< if i was an employer, and i had two otherwise equal job applicants, do you think i would take the one from some community college, or the one that went to harvard? >>




Actually,if I were an employer, and had to otherwise equal job applicants, I would take the one that would be more willing to work longer hours, more wanting to prove themselves, more willing to try and please, and most of all, willing to work for less money 🙂


Anyway, I doubt a Community College student and a Harvard student would be going for the same job. I just dont see that happening.
 
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