<p>Does Harvard look at all 4 years with equal weight when they calculate ur cumulative GPA?</p>
<p>Or does each grade have a different weight??</p>
<p>The adcoms look at everything you submit. How much weight they give to everything remains a mystery.</p>
<p>Based on your "chance me" post, sacboi4, I assume that you're worried about your freshman year grades (which aren't actually bad...). Anyway, Harvard looks at everything, but they know what they're doing and put it in perspective. If maybe your freshman year grades aren't perfect but then the next three years are amazing, you're fine...because that shows progress and development. It shows that you pushed yourself to work harder and succeeded, which looks good in their eyes (provided that the classes you took the next three years are challenging).</p>
<p>From everything I've heard Harvard admissions officers say, they look at everything, but you can get forgiven for a bad freshman year.</p>
<p>what about a bad freshman year, OKAY sophmore year (3.5 GPA- not so great EC's.) Then a great junior and senior year (4.0 GPA or more, great EC's, 500 plus volunteer hours....etc...etc...)</p>
<p>yamin, it still shows promise and I think you at least have a chance. just be sure to write an amazing essay, study for sat/act, and get great rec's =)
I'm in a similar situation...I had crappy freshmen grades and then got 4.0's and 3.9's UW after that</p>