<p>I had heard from some people, even teachers, that many colleges do not consider your freshman grades. I find this difficult to believe. Is there any truth to this? If there is it would be extremely beneficial to me, considering i had a 3.0 freshman year, a 3.9 sophomore year, and a 4.0 junior year. If there is any truth to this, does anybody know of any notable schools that do this?</p>
<p>Princeton University, certainly.</p>
<p>I know Amherst College places the most emphasis on first trimester/semester senior year grades.</p>
<p>Princeton does not look at Freshman grades?
When is Amherst’s application deadline?</p>
<p>neither does stanford.</p>
<p>BUT according to hmom, they only claim to not look at it, but since they have the complete transcript, and class ranks (which include grade 9) having bad grade 9 grades will still hurt a bit. Just not as much, I guess.</p>
<p>Michigan does not look at freshman year.</p>
<p>does anybody know about the UC’s, Michigan, BYU, Texas, Emory, CMU, NYU, U of Illinois, William and Mary, or U Virginia?</p>
<p>The UCs and UMich ignore freshman year grades. Not sure about other schools.</p>
<p>DO you think their is redemption for .3.5 Freshman after making 4.0’s for the next 3 years?
Because freshman year i mad B’s and Now I’m making only A+</p>
<p>I am fairly certain that Dartmouth, MIT, Michigan, Princeton and Stanford ignore Freshman year grades.</p>
<p>There is redemption.</p>
<p>Having an upward trend of grades is much better than a lower trend. And also, for many high school freshmen, it takes a semester or two to adjust to the rigors of high school (depending on how rigorous your jr high or middle school was).</p>