Is this a bad trend?

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MOUTHLOVER

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Semester Trend:

Freshman
1st 3.65
2nd 3.9

Sophomore
1st 3.4
2nd 3.55

Junior
1st 3.15 (sports injury mid semester, missed 6 weeks of class after surgery because I couldn't walk 2 miles on ice with crutches without causing further damage)
2nd 3.8

cGPA = 3.58
BCP = 3.58
 
MOUTHLOVER said:
Semester Trend:

Freshman
1st 3.65
2nd 3.9
Sophomore
1st 3.4
2nd 3.55
Junior
1st 3.15 (sports injury mid semester, missed 6 weeks of class after surgery because I couldn't walk 2 miles on ice with crutches without causing further damage)
2nd 3.8

cGPA = 3.58
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Not really. They may ask why your GPA went down a semester, but you have an answer. It may be considered a "bad trend" but it wont keep you out of dental school.
 
I suppose if you plotted that, you wouldn't have much of a slope. But bad? I don't know. It's just your busted-leg hiccup. GPA isn't too shabby despite that. I think you Canadian roots are more of a battle than these fluxes in GPA. Y'all got it hard. And not just the ice.
 
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jeffity said:
I suppose if you plotted that, you wouldn't have much of a slope. But bad? I don't know. It's just your busted-leg hiccup. GPA isn't too shabby despite that. I think you Canadian roots are more of a battle than these fluxes in GPA. Y'all got it hard. And not just the ice.
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haha yes it's a hard life up here in the cold North do you think they will see my leg problem as being a good enough reason for the low GPA?

that was also my first semester at a new university that I transferred too. It's also funny because that semester was suppose to be a GPA boosting semester. I was taking 3 arts classes math and a class regarded as the easiest junior year science class at the university...
 
MOUTHLOVER said:
Semester Trend:

Freshman
1st 3.65
2nd 3.9

Sophomore
1st 3.4
2nd 3.55

Junior
1st 3.15 (sports injury mid semester, missed 6 weeks of class after surgery because I couldn't walk 2 miles on ice with crutches without causing further damage)
2nd 3.8

cGPA = 3.58
BCP = 3.58
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here is a rule.... if your overall stats are good (3.58 = good) then there is no such thing as "bad trend"
 
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