Yes, they do look at progression. In fact, I see it as a positive because you turned around a dismal gpa into a great one (and I’m sure the classes you’ve been taking are the more challenging ones as you’ve gone along). If it were me I’d try to sell it as evidence of mental toughness and resiliency, something most college students lack (and what most college students need, since bad grades can snowball quickly in college). Maybe while writing your essay (or one of your essays) you can write about how hard you had to work to adapt to work in high school, and how all your hard work paid off and how you’ve become a stronger student for it. These are VERY attractive qualities.

I will also mention that most of the time, colleges care very little about your freshman year grades (many forms ask for your GPA from academic courses taken in grades 10 and 11, for instance). But your progression looks very good, going from a 2.2 to two consecutive years at 4.0, so I wouldn’t worry too much. It may not get you into Harvard, but you aren’t dead in the water as far as colleges go, not by a longshot.

Many colleges simply ask for your cumulative GPA, as in your average GPA from 9th grade to 11th grade, or the fall yf your junior year, depending on when you decide to apply for admission.

Nevertheless, I have encountered college applications that ask for a student’s Junior Year GPA, Senior Year GPA, and Cumulative GPA. This sometimes mean a college is looking at how good you’ve become over the years. Colleges do not want to see how your GPA went from a 4.0 in 9th grade to a 3.0 during your senior year. Competitive institutions want to see improvement every year.

However, it is not easy to say. It all depends on the university you are applying to.

i’m not sure how your schools sends it out but at my school then send your cumulative UWgpa for all 4 years (mine’s 3.67). then under ur transcript they have each class and the grade that you earned in it, so the adcom would be able to figure out your GPA based on that if they wanted. they look at progression but yours isn’t too steady. you’re all over the place. unless you make some kind of drastic improvement in the first half of ur senior year (ie. 3.8-4.0 range) there isn’t much of a trend there