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Junior and Senior grades
Dear College Peas, I’m very worried about my high school transcript. I did very well freshman and junior year but I completely destroyed my GPA sophmore year. I plan to make all A’s senior year. Is it true colleges focus more so on junior and senior year grades? -Alex Dear Alex, Grades are important because they demonstrate your ability to handle academic work. Colleges don’t want students who can’t handle the work. If you plotted your grades on a graph you want them to be consistently high, or consistently trending up after a low point early in your high school career. So, if you bombed sophomore year, make sure your grades increase a little each semester since then and make sure you have a strong ending which is first semester, senior year. Colleges will put more emphasis on your later grades than your earlier if they see an upward trend. If your grades went up and down each semester a college will see you as inconsistent but with these services you can guarantee to have a good paper for any topic. If your grades trend down each semester they will think you can’t handle harder and harder work. So, if you can’t keep straight […] read more
Filling out the ethnicity section
Dear College Peas, I am filling out my common application and I am wondering whether or not I should fill out the ethnicity section. I have read your book and I know that colleges want to increase diversity so as a white male with European descent would it just be better for me to not fill out this part since it is optional? -Daniel Dear Daniel, Yes. Fill it out. College use this for a number of reasons including analysis of their applicant pool. I always emphasize that colleges want diversity and ethic diversity is one area that is important. If you are an ethnic minority this section could help. If you are not, don’t worry, it won’t hurt. Sincerely, Mike Moyer read more
Growing up in Europe is not an NTA
Dear College Peas, I was wondering if growing up in Europe counted as a NTA? -Paige Dear Paige, No, growing up in Europe is not an NTA. However, it is does mean your perspective is different than that of an American and colleges love diversity. It’s not an NTA because there are other lots of other teenagers who live in Europe. An NTA is a specific activity or accomplishment that you are doing or did. Living somewhere isn’t really an accomplishment that you had much to do with (I’m assuming it was your parents idea). Sincerely, Mike Moyer read more
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