<p>I've heard that for the schools that recalculate GPA, not all of them include freshman grades. </p>
<p>Check each school’s website under “Admissions”. It will tell you what they consider. </p>
<p>I tried that, but most of my schools dont include their method for recalculating GPA. </p>
<p>I would think that those who don’t count freshman year grades are the exception, not the rule. Since many students apply to colleges before their first semester senior grades are out, the schools only have 6 semester of grades to consider. Eliminating freshman year would reduce them to 4 semesters for evaluation. If you can’t find their methodology on a school’s website, I suggest that you call or email the Admissions offices to find out how they calculate GPA. </p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon and Stanford do not count freshman grades. Either do the California State schools but those are the only colleges that I’ve heard about (after quite a bit of research).</p>
<p>the majority of schools use all 3 years worth of grades. You would likely know if the school does not use freshman year grades.</p>
<p>Even schools that include frosh grades will be looking for upward vs. downward trend and rigor.</p>
<p>“Most schools” do not recalculate grades, so the easy answer is, No.</p>
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<p>Such schools are disingenuous. Check out their common data set, and look for Class Rank. In Stanford’s case, Rank = Very Important. And since it is impossible to earn a high rank without high Frosh grades…</p>
<p>Stanford does not say that it doesn’t count freshman grades. It does say that they “focus on coursework and performance in 10th, 11th, and 12th.” Saying that they “focus” on later grades does not mean that they ignore 9th grade. </p>
<p>My D took two HS level classes in 8th grade and those counted in her GPA as well. Only a few few colleges totally ignore freshman grades. However an upward trend in grades is typically a positive factor.</p>
<p>As long as you don’t have any Ds or Fs in 9th grade, you’ll be fine since colleges do focus more on 10th, 11th, and 12th. But you need to have at least a C in all of your classes to get credit for them. However they look at the general trend of grades so if you got a 4.0 in 9th but a 3.0 in 10th and it keeps decreasing then thats obviously not good. But it’s fine if you got a lower GPA in 9th and then got better each year, for example. But yea colleges usually include only 10th, 11th and 12th in GPA.</p>