<p>The title says it all.</p>
<p>If they don't, do they get rid of the freshman grades and recalculate your GPA?</p>
<p>That'd be nice. I'd go up a few points.</p>
<p>i thought they didnt...</p>
<p>but i have a another question about that.</p>
<p>Does stanford differntiate between A/A- B+/B/B- when recalculating GPA (like do they ignore +s/-s)</p>
<p>because my GPA would go up .08ish, which nis pretty big jump considering how competitive stanford is</p>
<p>But think about it HiPeople.....if your GPA went up .08 if it were recalculated, the majority's GPAs would go up as well, right?</p>
<p>Dpattz: Theoretically, it should only make individual changes and have no real effect on the mean GPA as a whole.</p>
<p>Unless everyone has A+'s.</p>
<p>Which is somewhat likely because this is Stanford.</p>
<p>Nevermind...</p>
<p>You have to put yourself in the Stanford Adcom shoes. They need to winnow 30,000 applications down to <2000 acceptances. If you had bad grades in Freshman year, they still have scads of applications of students who had great grades all 4 years, and the Adcoms have to reject most of them as well.</p>
<p>They don't? Because it'd be weird -- most colleges I think use all for years. </p>
<p>My GPA would go down significantly if they took out my freshman grades though. I hope not. -__-</p>
<p>They didn't used to look at freshman grades. That may have changed now that they're on common app.</p>
<p>No, they usually don't include Freshman grades.</p>
<p>If you're applying to Stanford and want a good shot at going in, I would think you have read all of the information for prospective applicants on the Stanford site. The original question is answered there, along with many others. As for the +/- question, even if they don't include them, they're human. They see the plus and minus and it registers that way, remember, the decisions process is holistic.</p>