<p>If in freshman year I got less than a 4.0 unweighted, can I ever raise it to a 4.0 UW?</p>
<p>No, depending on what your freshman year GPA was you can raise it to a 3.9 though.</p>
<p>is a 3.9 UW GPA a terrible thing, especially if I want a chance at Stanford?
and also when looking at GPA, i know that colleges look at overall high school GPA but do they also consider GPAs of each year?</p>
<p>Ha, only on CC. No, a 3.9 is not terrible at all. I’m sure plenty of people have gotten in with a sub-3.9. They see everything, and they see if you improve too.</p>
<p>Bump
Also kind of wondering the same thing. I’ve gotten two Bs in Middle School(both were high school math courses) and am wondering how badly I screwed myself over because of this. What’s really frustrating is that the first B was an 89.98, and the second was an 89.49. No joke.
Not only that, I have a 82% in my IeD class which I doubt I will be be able to bring back up to an A before the class is over (it’s a semester only). So that’s three Bs right there.</p>
<p>Okay obviously this is ridiculous, a 3.9 GPA is not a bad thing at all (especially with upwards trend?). However, I thought it might calm down mister “Hoping4Stanford” to know that some colleges, including Stanford, do not actually look at your Freshman year grades.
Now stop worrying a few Bs and go do something you care about.</p>
<p>Yes, just work hard</p>
<p>Only on CC do we get questions where “Is a 3.9 bad for HYPSM?” </p>
<p>No. Your GPA will be fine.</p>
<p>3.90 UW will negatively affect your chances, though.</p>
<p>I don’t see how a 3.9 UW could possibly hurt you.</p>
<p>If the pool is full of 4.0s.</p>
<p>But if your GPA is between 3.9 and 4.0 (like 3.95), the difference becomes even more negligible.</p>
<p>thanks everyone-i know it was just freshman year but i wanted to know since they do look at cumulative gpa.</p>
<p>also do colleges like stanford look at WEIGHTED gpa at all? and does it matter?</p>
<p>Weighted GPA doesn’t matter nearly as much as unweighted, since course rigor is computed in a different, more rigorous way (and in the end, that’s all that weighted gpe tries to do).</p>