What I meant was that Freshman year grades would not be factored into GPA, which is something that this student seemed to be stressed about. If a potential student gots C and Ds, I don’t think that they would be (or should be) applying to Ivy league school in the first place. However, this is not the case with this particular student. She is only concerned that the B’s that she got Freshman year will hold her back from these top schools, which is not the case since these grades do not factor into her GPA at Princeton. She also does not have any grade that is alarmingly low.