Thread: So, about college for you older guys...

Originally Posted by sycld

I'll take your word for it, as I would have thought that most decent schools would not take someone with a GPA less than 3.0, and I doubt he'll be able to raise it to above a 3.0 in one year.

On the other hand, if he can show definite improvement from his freshman year to his senior year, and discuss it in his essays, it's possible he can get into a good school.

Ahh, from the OP, I thought he was saying he would have a cumulative HS GPA of 2.83 at the end of junior year, now I see that he meant 2.83 for his junior year only and ~2.0 cumulative HS after this year. Well, CFP, that will make it a bit harder than I initially thought, but you should still have a fighting chance at getting into a decent school if you can show a good SAT score and good senior year grades. Good senior grades can let you "punch above your weight" in terms of HS GPA when applying, as has been discussed, so that's definitely the main thing you need to strive for, more so than SATs or anything else. And yeah, a good essay talking about how/why you've learned to motivate yourself and do better than you did early in HS will help too.