I go to a highly competitive public school in the Bay Area where we send around 16 kids to Stanford Each year. While I know that Stanford, my dream school, does not count freshman year, almost all of the other colleges I am considering, do. Freshman year, I had a 3.571, but lets say sophomore, junior, and senior year I will have a 4.0 uw with the toughest courseload available (11 AP’s and the rest honors). If they see that i got perfect grades in my 10, 11, and 12th grade classes, how much will they REALLY care about my 3.571? I’m talking about schools like northwestern, duke, and johns hopkins.