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Ok so I know this is totally random but I’ve been
Having horrible anxiety about this for forever. Do colleges looks at your final grades on your transcript or your grades each year and each quarter?
Having horrible anxiety about this for forever. Do colleges looks at your final grades on your transcript or your grades each year and each quarter?
Hi! I work in admissions at a pretty prestigious private east coast university! We look at whatever your high school reports. Some schools submit grades on a semester schedule (most do). In that case, we look at each semester. Don’t fret too much about a bad semester, though. We like to see an upward trend, and also that you take challenging courses that you seem interested in. Grades are only one part of your application, we review the ENTIRE thing to get a sense of you as a person. I promise, admissions reps are real people too and we know life happens.
Omg thank you. For me, the grades on my final transcript are good (1 b) but there are some quarters (we do ours on a quarter scale) where I had a c and d but overall in the class I got an A. I’m just worried that they are going to see those grades. Also I have a 3.42 unweighted and have 2 more years, do you know how likely is it that I can get it to a 3.8-9 unweighted if I do really good in my classes from now on? Thank you so much!
@777Q Our range is about a 3.8-4.0!
@….??? All great questions!! I actually enjoy seeing range in grades. Why? Because it shows me when the student earns an A they worked for it! To me, that’s huge. From what you described, I think only your final transcript will be reported, but check with your high school’s college counselor, they will be able to answer that question. A 3.42 is a very solid GPA to have as a sophomore. You can easily calculate this online using “online high school GPA calculator”. This can predict what you’ll need to increase your GPA. Remember, grades matter, but course rigor is what is really important. When I see a student with Bs but who took AP (or equivalent higher ranked classes) i know the student challenged themselves!
@Cassie:) It’s nice to hear that. I’m a Junior in high school, who dreams on attending MIT, but I feel embarrassed to sometimes say that out loud, because of my grades from my freshman year (quarantine online year). I had severe panic attacks during that year, to the point where I had to visit the emergency room a few times. I had intense brain fog that led to me fear it and only focus on my anxiety. My sophomore year was when this ‘harm OCD’ hit, but I was able to keep my grades pretty good. This year, as a Junior, I’m trying so hard to get my GPA up from a 3.2 to a 3.8-3.9 (if possible). I have already increased it to a 3.4 from getting all A’s last semester in my classes (they’re all advanced advanced and include Dual Enrollment). This semester, I have doubled my college classes to not only feel challenged, but to show my dream university-MIT-that I have the ability to make such grades. I’ve been in a lot of extracurricular activities and have attended things that I’m passionate about, but I still have doubts of whether or not this will be enough to get accepted; I still would have to get a extremely high score on my SAT too. I feel incredibly doubtful to apply for scholarships, because I fear that they will look at my GPA and immediately reject me, because it’s not ‘competitive’.
@Peter ! *in general, I’m trying to increase my gpa to a 3.8-3.9. For this school year, I’m just trying to get it as high as possible so I can achieve a 3.8-3.9 at the end of my Senior year.
@Peter ! It’s awesome you have that goal! There is no reason to hold yourself back!! Try to remember that college admissions is a gamble, no matter who or what your application looks like. There are so so so many factors that go into an acceptance that are completely out of your control. Put your best foot forward and remember that you are amazing, regardless of the outcome
@777Q Thank you so much that is so sweet!
I’m in a class with a majority (basically all) people a grade younger than me because I messed up my schedule. it will be like this next year too, because the class that i’m in next year my grade already took this past year. I messed up , and now my friends ask me about it and treat me like younger than them and like below them kind of. and they’re not bad friends, but it is embarrassing bec what i did is just not normal. i’ve tried to keep it on the dl from people because they judge. I know i’m probably overthinking it but i’m scared my friends are gonna leave me because all they talk about is the class that they’re in that i’m not in and leave me because I’m behind. it’s really stupid that i’m not really a part of my own grade anymore, and it ruined my school years that i am currently in (at least that’s what it feels like). basically im scared that i’m going to be lonely the rest of these years and sad and it’s all because of a choice I made, even though i hope they wouldn’t do that.:(
Kinda spiraling. In one of my classes there was a girl that was a senior and I was a junior. We got put in a table group of 4 next to eachother for a unit with my friend also there and some girl that I knew from orchestra. I’m now scared if I was too close to her like physically. I never touched her obviously bc that’s weird. I think I was talking to my now gf at the time or maybe even dating her I’m not sure. There was this time we had to play quiziz on our Chromebooks and we got randomly selected in a group together with me her and one of my other guy friends. I’m worried that what if we were too close physically, what if my arm was touching hers or something. I know that my friend Jack was in the middle so he needed to see the screen and I also wouldn’t have went super close to her. I’m writing this bc I’m just super worried. I never talked to her outside of that class and really outside of that unit when everyone moved tables again. Whenever our teacher did demonstrations I feel like I looked at her too much and now I’m scared, even though I just look around but I feel like my eyes went to her. I would never cheat on my gf so this whole situation is bothering me. I also one time just curiously checked if she followed me on insta and we didn’t have eachother added and I saw her bf on her profile and I was like “aww that’s cute”. What if I was acting on attraction in the classroom, I’m scared
Hi all it’s been a bit since I’ve posted. I’ve been doing ok ish Today has been weird, idk if it’s cuz I upped my vyvanse to 20mg and it’s making me anxious or if everything is just colliding rn It feels like idk myself anymore. I’ve been flipping between ROCD, soocd and tocd the last couple of days/weeks. Rn I just feel horrible and idk why but I’ve been on my period for 11 days now. My period usually lasts 7. When I’m not on birth control. I’ve been on birth control since October of last year and hadn’t had a period till coming home end of April/early may and now it’s back again. I’ve been ranting to chat gpt (Ik it’s bad, I just didn’t know who to turn to) Rn I’m just really in my head about my gender and I’m anxious and crying and I just don’t feel good. Context for tonight’s thought I was doing my skincare, I’ve been trying to develop a routine cuz I’m bothered by the texture on my face and how it makes my makeup look. I’ve always felt less pretty than other girls tbh. Anywyas. As I was doing my skincare I had this thought just happen across my mind of “what if I dislike my skin and face so much cuz I’m trans? What if the reason I’ve been depressed lately is cuz I’m slowly becoming dysphoric and hating myself?” When in fact I think the issue is: I haven’t seen my bf in a month and a bjt. I’ve been bleeding for 11 days. I’m in summer classes and stressed about the comjng semester and how much work I have to do to catch up cuz I’m in pre med and I’ve been fucking slacking lately and I truly hate myself for it. I miss being hugged by my bf. I’ll admit I need a good dicking down tbh. My brother is a whole other story while I’m home. I just feel. Gross and bad. And I’m worried I’m trans. I’m worried I’m a lesbian or smthn. I’m worried I don’t love my bf deeply enough and it’s all just circling in my head a lot and I just feel like curling into a ball. I’ve always been a tomboy, I mostly hung out with boys cuz the girls never liked me. I was weird. I loved dragons. I had imaginary friends. At one point as a kid I tried a different name, I think it just didn’t fit and I grew out of that and just went back to my normal name. But now I’m worried I just repressed that. But I see a lot of girls who also went through the same thing and are also just women. But I’m so scared that I’m “not letting the TV glow” like that trend (that shit made me so anxious. I have trans friends and I love them but im scared of it for myself) I feel still sorta tomboyish but dress feminine, once in a blue moon ill dress semi masculine and now I’m worried that means im either trans or a lesbian who wants to be masc. but I’m not. I don’t think I am Idk who I am anymore. Idk if it’s just ocd or if im actually discovering smthn Im just anxious as hell tbh. So I don’t think that’s the case. I’m just sitting here. Looping in my head. My typical “drown out the noise” tv shows won’t load properly cuz of our new wifi and it’s really irritating me. What if I’ve been lying every time I try to do a “are you trans/genderfluid/non binary?” quiz. What if I’ve been lying to my bf. My friends? My family? I keep thinking to myself, if I wasn’t with my bf would I dress the same? Yes I would. I’d still wear my cardigans. My sweaters. My dresses. I’d try out new styles like I want to rn with him. I’m just worried that teying smthn would make me realize smthn about myself but I don’t think it would. Idk. I’m just in all these irrational thoughts. Jumping to conclusions Any advice would be appreciated. I mostly just needed to vent about this.
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