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What GPA do colleges look at? How do they calculate GPA? & How to get into an Ivy League school?
Okay, so I just started High School as a freshman. I am planning my future and I want to get into an Ivy League school. Any tips on what I should do to get in to an Ivy League school? I've been researching online and I just wanted to know more information. I am worried about how my GPA will turn out when I am a senior. 1st quarter has just passed and I got mostly A's 1 B and 1 C. Will this affect my overall GPA? What GPA do colleges look at and how is it calculated? By every quarter of the 4 years or by semester? What can I do to get a 4.0 GPA overall for when colleges look at my transcript? Also, any ideas on what clubs look extremely well in my college application? Also, would a sport help? Should I also run for Student Council in my school (president)? Will losing look bad or good since I did run? PLEASE HELP ME!!! I know my heads all over right now. I just wanna plan now and I'm really nervous for my overall GPA since I got 1 B and a C on my first quarter grade.
I am Pre-IB and am planning on taking the IB program in my school in 11th grade. I
am in all Honors classes and in some AP classes in Freshman year with the exception for PE, Foundations of Art and Spanish 1. I am planning on taking Spanish my whole 4 years of High School. I am currently working on SSL hours (community service hours). I have not joined any clubs yet and was wondering if there are any specific clubs that may impress colleges. I've also been trying to prepare myself for SAT's in any way possible. I am 2 years advanced in Math and many other honor/AP classes. Are there any sports I should excel in that Ivy League's might be looking for? Possibly volleyball? or maybe a specific sport for girls that they are most interested in? I know they don't have sports scholarships, but I was just wondering if they did have any woman's sports team in their colleges.
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- eriLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Everyone applying to the ivies has the highest grades in the hardest classes and very high test scores. You need all that just to compete, and then you need to find a way to stand out above all the top students in the world, because that's who's applying. If you want an overall 4.0 when you apply to colleges, the only way to do that is to never get a grade below an A. Colleges ask for unweighted GPA. And even that certainly doesn't mean you'll get into a top school. Nothing you've mentioned will make you stand out, and you don't even appear to have a good reason to attend one. Why should they let you in instead of someone else?
- 5 years ago
You want a four-yr university measure to use to scientific colleges. They don't ask or care what your top college grades have been. You do not must get into an ivy league for university to use to at least one for med college. You simply must get into any well university and take the premed categories. The ivies flip down countless numbers of four.zero scholars and valedictorians each and every yr - there is not any minimal GPA and a best one may not always get you in both. A scientific measure is an MD, now not a doctorate - that is a PhD. If you wish to regard sufferers, you cross to med college to get an MD. If you wish to do study, you cross to grad college to get a PhD. Either method you continue to want a bachelors measure first. Bachelors is four years, MD is an additional four years, grad college could be four-eight for those who did that as a substitute. The ivies have a few well med colleges - like Harvard and UPenn - however there are non-ivies which are simply as well if now not larger, adding Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Washington University St. Louis. The ivies don't seem to be the pleasant for the whole thing.
- 10 years ago
I'm a football player. For any athlete to get a scholarship to college they need to have a required GPA or SAT score or both depending on what level. The NCAA clearinghouse is the organization in charge of that. They judge it by your core GPA. Which is like English Classes, Science Classes, Math Classes.... You get the point. It doesn't include Art, Gym, or Band. Stuff like that.
