<p>I kind of find it hard to believe... I mean, they get the full transcript, how can they resist from looking at your freshmen year grade, and not letting it subconsciously affect them?</p>
<p>My freshmen year I had an unweighted GPA of 3.0 (one 79, one A, rest B's), sophomore and junior year I will have one B, so that's 3.87, I expect all A's senior year, so that's 4.0.</p>
<p>Now if my rank is still in range (top 5-10% - 15/300) and everything is OK, will the fact that they discount freshmen year still keep me in range?</p>
<p>No one told Princeton they had to discount freshman year. Plenty of schools consider it. So when they say that they don't consider frosh grades, it's not because they want to make you feel all warm and fuzzy, it's because they mean it. Take them at their word; they have no incentive to deceive you.</p>
<p>Yes, Princeton really does not take your freshman grades into consideration. If you were suspended or something worse that would be a different matter, but 9th grade academic performances are not considered.</p>
<p>well, do they count the freshmen grades into consideration when calculating your GPA?
like what did you all Princeton acceptees put on your application?</p>
<p>they look over it, but don't take it into formal consideration...so your HS gpa will have its freshman year discounted in the total, but they will probably look over it.</p>
<p>i have heard this often, but can someone tell me exactly why it is that they discount freshman year? i had all A's, except one B in algebra ii h last year (freshman year), and it makes me very nervous.</p>
<p>I consider it ominous that so far no one has pointed to a Web link for a Princeton admission office statement on this subject, which I would expect to exist if there is a definite Princeton policy on this issue.</p>
<p>"What weights are attached to grades, test scores, responses to the questions on our application, and so forth?</p>
<p>. . . </p>
<p>We do not consider the ninth grade. We focus only on the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. If a student has not always done well, we look to see in which direction he or she is heading. Obviously, heading up is far better than heading down."</p>
<p>Granted, this is from the Hargadon era. Janet Rapelye may have changed the policy.</p>
<p>I attended a Princeton info session recently, and the presenter noted that the adcom takes 10-12 grades into consideration, because that is when students take their core college preperatory curriculum. He didn't blatantly say that they did not look at 9th grade grades at all, but it was more of a tacit statement.</p>
<p>Thanks for the Web link. That is a good discussion of the importance of taking harder rather than easier courses, which is the lurking issue in any discussion of grade averages.</p>