<p>Haha, threads like these make me laugh continuously…</p>
<p>Schools don’t give a dung about the “number” for GPA, they look at it year by year. I had a B/- average freshman year (the horror! a C+ in Geometry!), then an A- average Sophomore Year and an A average Junior year. Overall, I had like a 4.0/4.83 (right between an A- and a B+ in an honors class in my weighting system), certainly not good on paper, but Yale looked at the trend, how well I achieved in Junior year, and they didn’t care about Freshman year. Also, I am not a URM, nor did I get a 2400 on my SAT 
(I got an average (for Yale) of 2180).</p>
<p>Some schools say right out they don’t look at freshman year (Princeton comes to mind).</p>