<p>I feel like i'm being misrepresented if a college just looks at commonapp and sees that I have a 3.75 GPA because I have a 3.1 GPA in 9th grade and no lower than a 3.95 since then.</p>
<p>Do colleges actually care or even notice why I have a 3.75 just because I didn't know 9th grade was actually part of high school? Do they look for an up trend? and should I put a note in additional information explaining that my cumulative without 9th grade is a 3.96?</p>
<p>No they will actually look at your transcript and they probably will notice that you had an upward trend.</p>
<p>Yes, they will look at your transcript and not your Common App as the official source of information.</p>
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<p>Seriously?</p>
<p>There was an intermediary school I went to between middle school and highschool. It was called a freshman campus (9th grade only school) so I didn’t know it mattered.</p>
<p>I went to a freshman campus too. They call it that because you’re a freshman in high school.</p>
<p>Colleges like to see upward trends. Consistently high grades are better, but at any given GPA, an upward trend is better than a flatline, which is in turn better than a downward trend. They won’t know that you didn’t know that 9th grade is part of HS, and they probably wouldn’t care if you were to tell them.</p>
<p>Admissions people are experts at reading transcripts. Don’t insult them by trying to put a spin on yours.</p>
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^lmao, that made my day :)</p>
<p>^Well, in some places 9th grade isn’t part of HS–it’s still Middle School.</p>
<p>Like it was this way for my mom.</p>
<p>Is it worth writing an additional note or will it look worse that they think i’m making an excuse?</p>
<p>cjgone, of course they look at your transcript. Admissions Comms care more about your recent performance than your grades freshman year, and they also care (a lot) about the rigor of your coursework. I wouldn’t bother writing an additional note. Most kids’ grades show an upward trend, so you’re not an unusual case.</p>
<p>I didn’t know 9th grade was actually part of high school either…
I think in some places only 10,11,12 grades are part of high school(maybe only in California i guess?)</p>
<p>Plenty of schools do not look at your 9th grade grades (though will look at what classes you took) and those that do will give more weight to 10th and 11th. Yes, in the old days (many of your parents…) 9th grade was part of Junior High. We did not call it middle school.</p>
<p>I’m a senior and our large school district didn’t go to 4 year high schools until last year. So like the OP, I have has relatively low grades from that year. But it is very clear on the transcript that 9th grade was taken at a junior high school.</p>
<p>A lot of schools consider your transcript to be the most important part of your application, and it is weighted accordingly.</p>