Ranto a question for you!!!!?

I certainly don't want to say it is impossible -- but the elite schools may already be out of your reach. By "Elite", I am talking about schools like the Ivy League, Duke, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, Cal Tech and a few others.

But don't stop working to get those great grades, because:

1. There is still a chance at those schools if all the other planets align. Some schools may not look at your Freshman grades, so your overall GPA could be high enough where you will be considered.

2. If you improve, then there are plenty of great schools that would still be interested in you -- including the better public universities, private universities just below the elite schools (e.g., Syracuse, Villanova, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Brandeis, etc)

(3.4 * 2 semesters + 4.0 * 2 semesters) / (4 semesters) = 3.7. So assuming you have at best a 3.4 right now, and you get nothing but A's from now on, and you take as many classes in the next two semesters as you did in the last two semesters, the highest GPA you could get would be a 3.7.

(3.3*2+3.9*2)/4 = 3.6 for the other situation.

But since you apply to colleges before you get senior year grades back, the best you can have is (3.4*2+4.0*1)/3 = 3.6 by then.