<p>Do high ranking private universities like the Ivies, or Amherst count your 10-12 academic GPA or your 9-12 academic GPA?</p>
<p>I think Princeton is the only one that says they always ignore freshman year. someone please correct me on that if there are others.</p>
<p>Let’s think about this for a second.</p>
<p>Freshman year is, yes, a transition year, but I don’t see how a college could justify not “counting” this year. Colleges don’t have the time to wait until the last minute to look over a high school student’s senior year, thus putting us, assuming freshman year would not be considered, two years of looked-over education to determine college acceptance? </p>
<p>And I hope I am not the only one who has a problem with the idea of colleges looking only at two years of education to judge whether or not a student is a risk worth taking.</p>
<p>I’ve always heard colleges look at Freshman-Junior year in all cases. Two years really isn’t enough to make a good decision, I feel.</p>
<p>9-11 1/2 - that is pretty standard.</p>
<p>All except Princeton and Stanford look at 9th grade.</p>
<p>@newBeginning: It’s now how many years, but which years. Freshman year in many cases does not represent the applicant any more. For example, I received D’s and C’s Freshman year and I had no H/AP classes. As a Senior now, I’m taking 5 APs and I also received a 4.5 GPA last year. Though most top colleges take into account Freshman year, I’m sure they don’t weigh it as much as Sophomore and Junior years. I would to mention that we often take the American system for granted; in many other countries, test scores are the primary determining factor in admissions, with high school records having little to no impact.</p>