Horrible High School GPA...?
I am going to graduate high school with a 2.5 cumulative GPA. I took Honors English my first two years, AP English the last two years, Honors Chemistry as a Junior, and AP Government as a senior, but STILL ended up with a low GPA. I want to become successful later on in life because my parents are really struggling and I want to find a career I both enjoy and I can use to help support myself and my parents. But with such a bad GPA, I feel like no colleges will accept me. Could it be possible to apply to a state college near home, then raise my GPA and transfer to a better school? Or will colleges just shoot me down with a low high school GPA? Advice would be much appreciated! :(
How can I explain my low GPA?
You can't really explain your low GPA. Aside from a disability or health-related reason, colleges would probably rather hear you put your best foot forward and present yourself the best you can instead of explaining away your grades. If you say it was for work-related reasons, they may frown upon you putting work before school and may see it as you not being mature enough to manage your time well. I'm definitely not saying I think that's the case -- I understand that times are tough and you may not have had it as easy as kids who never had to lift a finger throughout high school. It's really not fair. However, no one said admissions officers were compassionate. They'll see your history and wonder whether you'll make the same mistake again when it'll be easier to make that mistake being completely financially independent (I'm assuming you're not a transfer) and responsible for yourself. They'll assume that since, in their eyes, you put work first in high school, you'll do the same in college and won't excel. If I were you, I'd leave that part out and try to work really hard on the non-grades parts of your application. Ask for recommendations from every teacher that you think would give you one and pick the best ones to send in. When it's time, brainstorm ideas for your essay, then write an outline, then carefully craft it. Take days or even weeks to do this. Then, have as many people read and critique your essay as you can. Take prep courses for the ACT/SAT. Retake it if your score wasn't too good. Ask around to see what the best prep courses in your area are. Take as many practice tests as you can before the test. Know your weaknesses, and practice at improving them as often as you can. And basically, just do what you can to prove to the admissions committees that despite your grades, you are different. Explain the fact that you deserve to get in not with an excuse but with yourself and your other credentials.
There's nothing to explain.Explanations are useful when there's something that, when brought to light, will help the faculty see your application in a different way.It sounds like your poor GPA is exactly what it looks like. If you worked hard on your projects, great, then describe it as you normally would, through your statement of purpose. The rest will come from your recommendation letters.Students think they can significantly change their admissions outcome by "writing" a better application. That's not reality. The application is designed to accurately reflect your past performance. Your record is your record, and there's little point (or impact) in trying to "finesse" your way to a more attractive application. By the time you're sending in your applications, your record and application content is largely set, and there's usually very little you can do to improve or decrease your admission chances.
A low GPA grade is only one letter in the whole essay of your life, but the most important one that will determine the admission chances when you apply to the college. So if you still have the chances to improve your high school GPA rates there are plenty of the opportunities: Go to summer school, work independently with a teacher to repair a grade, pull up middle school A’s, apply to places that drop freshman year grades from your GPA such as San Diego State or Cal Poly.As a rule the documents where students try to explain their insufficient GPA is personal statement or the statement of purpose, but sometimes it is not exactly the best place to put the excuses, in fact, specialists advice to abstain from making excuses in such admission documents, it is better to write the low GPA waiver or the letter explaining low GPA. In the statement of purpose, it is better to focus on your plans, it should sound upbeat, full of inner energy, determination and plans to solve the problems of your industry in the future. Before you started writing a letter:Get higher scores for other tests: f.g LSAT required for law schools, MCAT for medical, etcMention your work experiencePrepare the reasons for the explanation low GPA explanation letterConsider applying earlierApply to the numerous schools especially those that accept low GPAsPrepare a stunning personal statementUse the opportunities to write the additional essays for focusing on your strengthMake the early submission of your applicationIf you are on the wait-list submit the letter of continued interestSo you started a letter? Let’s see what reasons qualify for the good reasons to explain your low GPA:Personal ProblemsFinancial ProblemsHaving to work instead of studyingResearch conductingI wrote the article where I explain how to write about them and what advice to keep away from as well, you are welcome to read it here GPA Explanation Letter: 3 Tips to Explain All I hope it will be helpful for you specifically. Good luck!
Can someone please explain my GPA?
Your weighted GPA (4.59) is your GPA, but with boosts from AP classes and honors courses. For example, my GPA is something like 4.11. I have an A in Honors English (4-->4.5), an A in History (4), an A in PE/Health (4), an A in Religion (4), an A in French (4), a B+ in Honors Algebra 2/Trig (3.5-->4), and a B+ in AP Biology (3.5-->4.5). I'm not sure if all of the numbers are right, but that gives me a 4.11 or something. AP is +1, honors is +0.5. Unweighted is without the extra boost from AP/honors. Percentile means the amount of people you scored higher than. You've got awesome grades. All As, I'm jealous... I screwed up first semester. EDIT: For the Valedictorian thing, I would hope it would be the non-weighted, because just because someone takes more AP courses to show off it doesn't mean they're a better student. It might be the weighted, though, or maybe a combo of the two? I think it varies school-to-school.
How can I explain to my mom that I worked hard?!?
How can I explain to my mom that I worked hard?!I don't care if she takes my cellphone, computer, TV, etc...I can live without those things. I just don't want my mom think I'm a failure. The quarter is almost over and the problem is I have a HORRIBLE grade. These are my grades: Tech Education-A+ 98% Social Studies-A- 90% Math- A-90% Chorus-A 95% Gym-A- 90% English-A- 90% French- 83 B Science- C+ 77% This is my WORST report card. I've tried so hard...but my science teacher hates me. I know I shouldn't blame my teacher for my failure but she's to blame. Every quiz I take I get points off from LITTLE errors and when I look around people get it right even though they're missing half of what the question is being asked. I study so hard (2 hours) and I still fail. What can I do? How can explain it to her? Sorry if doesn't make sense guys. Thanks, ♥Merisa
How do I explain my low GPA to interviewers?
As in with any job interview, always focus on what you do have, not what you don't. But flat out be honest, just do it in a positive manor. Everything that didn't work out in life is a learning experience. First try to answer every question with your strengths, since it wasn't your grades, don't mention them, in fact they shouldn't even be in your resume. Also, since your strengths are experience, put that first on your resume, load the resume with your work experience, mention the schooling, but at the bottom, also remember, you graduated, low grades or not, that's more than many and enough to get you a lot of jobs. Most just want to know you graduated. In all my years of work (20+), I've never been asked my grades. However, if you are applying for jobs where they care, or they ask. Flat out say, yes, I had a lower grade average than I wanted, because...... (insert reason, ex. was focusing on training outside school, jobs, etc.), but I've learnt from that experience valuable skills and am now better equipped to successfully multi-task and have discovered what I truly want to do in my career. Since I've focused my training on my career goals, all my subsequent training has been outstanding and I have excelled. Something like that, where you don't deny or back down from the question, but turn it around to be an actual positive thing, as in you grew from the experience or you learnt now what you should be doing and are doing it well, that type of answer should dazzle and rightly so impress any employer. I'd hire someone with that kind of answer. If someone answered and said I did poorly because.... and gave some excuse or blamed someone else, I wouldn't hire them. (ex. if you instead said, the school messed up my exams, or I couldn't get to my classes because I was sick, etc. those sound like you are whining and no employer wants that.) If faced with any interview question where your answer is less than amazing... admit it WAS a weakness, but you have turned that into a strength because now you have done the following.... Those are always best to handle difficult areas on a resume. Remember, no one is perfect, even the best qualified people have areas of improvement. Believe in yourself, present confidence at all times and others will believe in you too.
If you get low marks simply because you didn’t focus on studies and involved in other activities which were not fruitful then there can be two ways :First, you can say I believe more in practical learning and since exams were mostly theoretical I have not fared that well but I have in and out knowledge and understanding of whatever I have learned in all these years and most importantly I know how to use these learning in a practical situation. For this sort of answer you should really be knowledgeable and be prepared to answer next technical or syllabus based question..but believe me, if you can answer next question then it will validate your point and impress the interviewer.second way If you have received bad marks only in one yr. or so and rest of you record is good then you can justify that by giving an honest reason for the same and also stating that I have learned from my mistake and worked on them and regain my position.The point here is to prove that your low marks do not make you less skilled ,you have valid reasons for the same and you are willing to work on yourself..Refer this : How to handle unpleasant Interview Questions
Could someone please explain to me how I can calculate my GPA?
as an international prospective student I have been having a problem with understanding entry requirements to universities in the US, I would like to know if GPA is when you take in your grades for all your subjects add them together and divide them by the number of subjects you do therefore getting your average or is it per subject? I dont know if this helps in my IGCSE I got 1 A, 6 Bs and 1 D.