College admission and g.p.a

Applying to College
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<p>Well I'm wondering if colleges have their own way of calculating your gpa. Well I've heard that colleges don't look at courses taken in 8th grade, and my school counts a couple high school classes taken in 8th grade toward my gpa. Do colleges count this or do they just count 9th-12th grade. I'm wondering because 8th grade was a bad year for me with an 84,(some bad teachers) while my 9-11 gpa was around a 95, so that 8th grade is really screwing me over. </p>

<p>Also is a rank of 50 out of 270 good for colleges like syracuse or boston U.</p>

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<p>first of all, don’t blame your teachers</p>

<p>second of all, NU says they look at whatever’s on your transcript</p>

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<p>I think I have a right to blame the teacher considering he was absent the entire first semester =P</p>