<p>So I've heard that Stanford doesn't look at grades from freshman year. </p>
<p>Does this mean that they won't look at awards/achievements from freshman year as well?</p>
<p>If they say grades they probably mean grades. Otherwise they would simply omit the word grades and say they don’t look at freshman year.</p>
<p>“So I’ve heard that Stanford doesn’t look at grades from freshman year.”</p>
<p>Correct. </p>
<p>“Does this mean that they won’t look at awards/achievements from freshman year as well?”</p>
<p>No. For example: Stanford classmate was the Ballroom Dancing National Champion during his freshman year of high school; it still counted for him.</p>
<p>They recalculate your GPA based on their own formula.</p>
<p>Freshman year is thrown out. Soph/jr/sr year GPA is recalculated so that every A+ or A- is an “A” and every B+ or B- is a “B”…etc.</p>
<p>Your awards are fine, don’t worry.</p>
<p>Thanks! Do you know if they consider grades by each semester or by final year grades? Sorry for so many questions.</p>