How to Deal with a Low GPA?
Why is GPA Important?
We all keep hearing that GPA is important by friends, family and others as that can help you for your college applications. Well that's true but grades are not that much as its worth 20% of your application. 20% is still a lot in which a low GPA will hurt your chances. But it doesn't mean you can't go to college with a 3.5 unweighted GPA or higher. You can still make it to a good university/college, but it'll require a lot of work to do.
Get High Test Scores
Even with the whole situation with Universities being test optional and test blind, getting a high test score on the SAT, ACT, and AP exams is still a significant factor.
Check out our other articles about SAT, ACT, and AP Exams to help you.
Test scores before Covid 19 is 15% of your application and was a huge factor, in which you can use that to overcome your low GPA but not by that much. It can show colleges that you are talented and skillful, but you still need to work on trying to express your story of having a low GPA to admissions officers.
Write Essays and get amazing Recommendation Letters
Your essays are accounting up to 25% of your application which is 5 % more than GPA and coursework. So in your case of having a low GPA , you can use your essays to write the reason to admissions officers on why you got that GPA. These essays will be most important since you need to
See our other articles about how to write a college essay.
Improve on Extracurricular activities
Extracurricular activities will account for around 20% of your application and is considered an important part of your college applications, since it can help college admissions. Having an impressive impact and success in your activities can tremulously help you with going to the university/college that you wish to go to. Making a passion project leading towards making a better world or wanting to share your passion/hobby can also help you as well.
See our other articles about how to improve on activities and also how to develop a passion project.
Conclusion
Having a Low GPA may be terrifying to you because it may prevent you from going to your favorite university/college, but that's not the case. You can still go to a top college even with a low GPA but it won't be easy. Follow the steps above and use our resources to help you for the future to come by.
Sameet T is a current student majoring in architecture. He created Schooller Education alongside with Aniq S bringing his years of experience in high school to help students achieve success in high school when he didn't get a chance to know a lot about it.
Aniq S is a student who is planning on majoring in computer science. He developed this website to hopefully help future high school students succeed in their endeavours.