<p>I was told someone in the 'parents forum' might be able to answer a question i have.</p>
<p>I didn't do too well freshman year, to the point of failing two classes, and someone in another thread told me that some colleges do not look at your freshman year/ take it into account with your GPA, and then told to post in this section with my question. I was just wondering if you knew which ones were anything like this where they do not look at freshman year(or something)? Thankyou.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn't, but if you failed two classes freshman year, that still may be out of the question.</p>
<p>Stanford looks at the 10th and 11th grades only.</p>
<p>Michigan...</p>
<p>I do not think I will be able to get into one of the extremely 'prestigious' schools, even if they ignored freshman year (I have not got completely straight A's since 9th grade, I got an 82 in bio and an 79 in spanish 1st term junior year).
If those schools do not look at freshman yr., I am guessing some less prestigious ones ignore it aswell.
Edit: But I still would like to attend a good school, I get mostly 90's in the classes that matter and i will probably be able to get a pretty high score on the SAT's (maybe not the essay part, though)
Do you know where I might find information on if certain schools ignore freshman year or not? Thankyou.</p>
<p>Isn't saying that they ignore freshmen year a bit misleading? If they still consider class rank, or place heavy emphasis on it, it doesn't even matter whether or not they consider freshmen year grades, because your freshmen year grades may have obviously caused a lower rank as well. So unless they recalculate your rank without freshmen year, I don't see what is the difference.</p>
<p>Maybe I am not seeing it correctly?</p>
<p>look at UC schools... they look at only 10 and 11
even if ure gpa isnt great for those two schools some ucschools like Irvine or davis of maybe even ucsb if u do well on Sats..... but A-san says it correctly when he talks about rank... even though they dont lookt at frosh ... they do look at rank which ofcourse entails frosh year.... good luck with everything</p>
<p>Well I just did a rather inaccurate estimate of my GPA, I do not know what all my grades have been, so I just avged them in as lower, and I only included majors, and without freshman year might be around 3.4/4, probably higher since i estimated lower grades and didn't include minors, only majors. Would any schools except something like that, and including 9th grade it goes way down. Do you know if I could say my LD/ADHD(documented w.school) contributed to my low grades freshman year and I learned to overcome them or something, and that would somehow fly?</p>
<p>I am sure plenty of schools would accept you with that GPA. As for elite schools, I'm not really sure. Is it 3.4 without freshmen year grades? Is it unweighted or weighted?</p>
<p>3.4uw w/o freshman year, it goes down alot with freshman year. No one ever made AP courses available to me, so I haven't taken them, but I am in the highest level courses they offer(mostly, except spanish), so with that weighted I do not know what it is.
I am not planning on applying to really 'elite' schools, the most difficult schools to get into that I am looking at (but sadly don't think I stand a chance unless I get a 2400 or make up a better excuse then 'learning to cope with LearningDisability+ADHD') are washington&Lee, Clemson,UNC-chapel hill, & Vanderbilt.
Some other schools I am looking at are hillsdale, calvin college, BrighamYoung(I know they are mormons, but the price is great), Grove City, and I am looking at a few others but have not really decided.</p>
<p>In other posts, parents have recommended some unis and LACs where their children with LD found supportive environments. It might be worth doing a board search for those posts. Those schools probably are good at evaluating the overall college potential of a student with LD.</p>
<p>you are asking the wrong question</p>
<p>From my posts its sounds like you are trying to get in to the best college with the grades you have.....</p>
<p>You shuold be looking at schools that interest you, and make available the things that you want to do......</p>
<p>Here are somethings you want to consider</p>
<p>What do you want to study?
Where in the country would you prefer?
What size school?
Any athletics that you would be involved in?
Close to home or not?</p>
<p>answer these and it will be much easier for others to help you suggest some good schools</p>
<p>u sound so much like me i have adhd..i pretty much failed math(they passed me but i technically failed it) and did bad in bio and english and the only class i did well in freshman yr was history(a high point for me) i switched schools to a not so well known private special ed school im thriving but theres still that one class that is really hard(spanish) and i occasionally get not so stellar quater grades in random usually good classes(i tend to space out in parts of subjects i dont like) and finals...(I was able to take bio over due to my new school being behind in most subjects exccept history so i got a better grade but i didnt study much for my bio final last june b/c i couldnt concentrate i passed...C+</p>
<p>I just spent awhile typing a long response to have it tell me to sign in when i tryed to submit it.</p>
<p>The reason I failed the classis basically a lack of interest in it, yet when I retook it I was much more interested and they are now some of my favorite subjects. </p>
<p>As for the Q's:
For schools, location and size I can not really decide on, I don't really know what I would like better.
I would probably be interested in studying Political Science, maybe history. I do not know if I am capable of handling double majoring, but double majoring pol.Sci. + something might interest me.
Another big factor is a schools political views + religion. I consider myself pretty conservative in politics, and It would be ideal if the school I attended the majority of the students were also republicans. I also am christian, not extremely conservative, but I probably would fit in at a school that was (ex. BYU, even though it is Mormon, they are extremely conservative, probably too conservative though). Some schools I have looked at include Washington & Lee, BYU, UNC-Chapel Hill, etc. Although conservative-republican is the ideal atmosphere, I am sure I can find a place at any school, since I have spent my entire life living in one of the most liberal towns in america(maybe an exageration, but I get along fine with people with opposite views).</p>
<p>yes,,,, well BYU would suit you but I had a friend who went there who ended up transfering within the 1st year</p>
<p>THis is what I heard</p>
<p>Be ready for harsh criticsm about your beliefs, and how your relegion is far inferior to those of the mormons
Not much of a party scene
Pretty much all praying and studying</p>
<p>Ok this is just wut i heard from my friend so by all means dont take it to heart... but ummmm</p>
<p>Here are some catholic schools in the west.... but I dont know how conservative they would be</p>
<p>University of San Diego
Loyola Marymount Uni (jesuit)
Gonzaga University
University of San Francisco
Pepperdine University very catholic but also very tough to get in to</p>
<p>I hope im on the right track</p>
<p>I would hope that BYU would not be like that, although I would imagine it probably is. I have never experienced a mormon trying to talk religion with me, but hopefully they are not like the jehovah's(SP?) witnesses(the flyers on my doorstep tend to become annoying).</p>
<p>I don't think a school where religion is a HUGE focus and it limits what is allowed completely would be the perfect thing for me, although it would be tolerable and I would accept it as a benefit and embrace it. I still want a school where there is atleast some religious presence and not all partying, but even if there is some to quite a bit of partying I would be fine as long as it didn't get in the way of the reason I would be attending college(to learn). </p>
<p>I have compiled a list of a few college's that I might like, at this point not taking alot of consideration into if I would get in or not.
-BYU, Clemson, UNC-Chapel Hill, Washington & Lee, Grove City College, Hillsdale, Calvin College, Vanderbilt,Baylor University, Miami University(Ohio), University of Dallas, Wheaton College(IL), Valparaiso University. </p>
<p>And again, some other important factors are that the majority is conservative in political views(republicans), and that since I will probably major in PoliSci, they have a good/decent political Science program.</p>
<p>St. Olaf in MN is Lutheran and conservative by my standards. It is described as a very supportive school. My best friend went there (30 years ago) and liked it even though she isn't conservative, so there must have been a mix Beautiful campus, as I remember. They accept 75% of applicants. SAT ranges V 580-700. M 580-690. ACT 25-30.</p>
<p>I'll take a look at it.
Could someone take a look at my list
(
-BYU, Clemson, UNC-Chapel Hill, Washington & Lee, Grove City College, Hillsdale, Calvin College, Vanderbilt,Baylor University, Miami University(Ohio), University of Dallas, Wheaton College(IL), Valparaiso University.)
and see if they could make anymore recommendations based on it, or maybe eliminate one or two(and tell me why I wouldn't want to go there if so)</p>
<p>I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong. There are colleges/universities who recompute the GPA and they don't use grades from freshmen year (and sometimes senior year...see above posts). This is VERY different than "ignoring freshman year". </p>
<p>Also, Pepperdine is a Christian college, very conservative. It is not Catholic.</p>
<p>I don't beleive that any private school totally "ignores" freshman year. I think some schools wink at it, and others may give you some benefit of the doubt. For example as one poster stated if you failed courses during your freshman year, it really isn't going to matter because there will be "damage" to your overall GPA . </p>
<p>As thumper stated there are schools that are going to recompute your GPA, but schools that take a holistic non-straight numbers approach, may still raise questions about it in the backs of their mind.</p>