<p>I didn’t enroll as freshman but it seems that the main variation is about high school grades and SAT scores, they don’t matter as much compared to college grad. As a matter of fact, my case is simply unique. However, you can’t really call me a slacker, I always took very heavy course load, my all time favorite was 8 classes including 5 maths.
My US GPA was lowered by the last semester where I took 5 classes, two of them having labs and well that was ugly. As a result, I am hopeful since it makes me interesting but I may seem too weird to some adcom I guess.</p>