I keep reading that a lot of colleges don’t look at, take into consideration, or just use your freshmen year as a baseline for improvement. Is this true and in what manner. Also if these aligations are true then do the colleges recalculate your GPA.
Please any helpful response is appreciated…I am so confused.
<p>like everything in teh college admin game, "it depends." </p>
<p>The UC's and Princeton, for example, do not even look at Frosh grades -- but, of course, those grades do figure into class rank, decile for Princeton. Nearly all schools recalc grades based on thier own formulas, using, typically only focusing on academic courses (exclude PE, health, religion and the like). Every school is different. Using the UC's again, they recalc Soph & Jr grades and add a grade point (A=5.0) for UC-approved honors courses and AP courses.</p>
<p>Take a look-see at some of websites of the colleges you are interested in.</p>
<p>Really! thanks bluebayou for your insight.</p>
<p>Stanford too delta. dont worry man. Stanford only takes look at frosh and uses it to see major improvements..</p>
<p>Thank God I have maintained Almost straight As since my fesh. yr. (2 Bs) but recieved like a total of seven Bs in 9th grade.</p>
<p>Freshman year grades were terrible for me as well, delta. Good luck, I know how you feel.</p>
<p>delta..right now u are talkign to a success story. I had 2 C's and a B in first semster freshman..thne got straight A's and still continuing in 2nd semester junior. I wouldnt worry. freshman is just whatever grade. If colleges really cared about freshman then they would say so.</p>