<p>Does anyone know the overall/most common policy for colleges when they recalculate your GPA? I know some don't count freshman year, but, say someone had straight a's for all of high school...but 2 B's in high school classes in 7th and 8th grade? Would said theoretical person be forever condemned to a 3.9 (by colleges) for stupidity committed 3+ years ago? And, would you think that colleges would care very much? Specifically top tier colleges?
Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>State universities often have their own methods specified.</p>
<p>Schools using holistic admissions processes probably just eyeball the transcript to see if you chose the most rigorous available courses and got mostly A (or whatever) grades.</p>
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Yeah, the actual GPA number is essentially useless in admissions since it only says anything in the context of your school and since some schools use idiotic methods to calculate it.</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I would think, if a school is going to barely care about 9th grade, they would care even less about grades received in any courses taken during junior high.</p>