<p>I searched the forums to any haters.</p>
<p>My question is which of the top 15 schools (not even considering anything lower) DO NOT look at Freshmen GPA.
So far i am hearing Princeton and U Cali's.</p>
<p>Anything others?</p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>I think Stanford?</p>
<p>Princeton, Stanford, UCs, U michigan.</p>
<p>Although I would like to point this out to you. If you can’t maintain good grades as a freshmen, and it’s so bad that you NEED to look for colleges which don’t consider freshmen year, I don’t think a top 15 school is up your ally. </p>
<p>And then to augment that, a rank doesn’t make a school better for you. For all you know, you’d thrive better at a lower-ranked liberal arts college than a top ranked research university. And then kind of a personal note, but people who look at the rankings and say “I must go to school ranked X by this source” are kind of d bags. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>^ Yes, but sometimes those kids who look at a highly ranked school go there not for the rank but rather the ramifications and attributes of the school. A highly ranked schools, in generally, will have better acdemics, learning environments, quality students, ect, compared to a lower ranked one. I looked at top ranked schools and say I want to go there because it will offer me the best eduation I can possibly achieve. </p>
<p>However, I understand where you are coming from. Those who apply to Harvard or Princeton for the name are silly people.</p>
<p>Your best bet is the UCs which only use soph and jr grades and don’t seem to care about rank. The private colleges still care about rank even those some don’t use freshmen grades when recalculating GPA.</p>
<p>My school doesnt rank. Fresh GPA 3.55.
Sophomore GPA 3.93
Junior GPA 3.95</p>
<p>Just to prove that i havent ****ed my other years. This is NOT a chance thread thus i will not post my EC and et cetera.</p>
<p>please Only post schools that ignore freshmen GPA.</p>
<p>Most colleges will approximate a rank for those whose schools don’t rank using the high school’s profile and historical data from applicants from that school.</p>
<p>I have the average applicant data. Lol…
Average GPA 3.68 RD, 3.81 ED.
Mediocre average SAT: 2112 average applicant.
Most acceptants are 3.8 +.</p>
<p>^for what colleges?</p>
<p>i think johns hopkins doesn’t count freshmen year grades when they calculate your grades</p>
<p>Those are about the stats of average applicant for Columbia, Duke, Washington U, and Northwestern from my school.</p>
<p>can someone confirm hopkins neglects frosh year?</p>
<p>i would have the same concerns.
my freshman year was bad as well.
all i know is princeton, u mich…</p>
<p>That would awesome for me if some colleges do not look at freshman gpa, that was the only year I got 1 B!!!</p>
<p>^^^^^ Pshh. negligible even when it is considered.
For me, the difference is about a 3.78 (freshmen grade counted) vs a 3.92 (freshmen grade not counted).
It would be sick and ridiculous for me to get into say Princeton/Stanford but rejected from like Cornell/ Brown.</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>does someone know about JHU?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that John’s Hopkins does look at Freshman GPA but it’s not that hard to get into the school as an average GPA there is around a 3.5. It’s difficult to get into any of their schools for study beyond undergraduate.</p>
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<p>…really…</p>
<p>And OP, based on your statistics a 3 year GPA would approximate to 3.8 and a 2 year would approximate to 3.9. If you, hypothetically, were accepted by Stanford and Princeton but rejected by Cornell and Brown, it would have to do with aspects outside of your GPA, as there really isn’t a significant difference between the two GPAs. Just an example, my friend’s brother was waitlisted by Brown and accepted by Princeton even though his 2 year and 3 year GPAs were the same.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they look at your freshman GPA because a lot of kids I know have had decent grades since Freshman year but have been rejected, all I can take from that is that they do look at the Freshman GPA. But from what I know it isn’t that tough to get in there, people I know with aroudn 3.5-3.7 have gotten in.</p>
<p>well of course GPA isnt the only thing they look at.</p>