How heavily does UMICHIGAN comsider freshman year grades?

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I’m a junior and UMichigan is one of my top schools. However, I’m concerned about my freshman year. I didn’t do amazing. I never got any Cs, but I got quite a few Bs my freshman year. I took 2 honors classes and my UNWEIGHTED GPA was 3.43 first semester, and 3.57 second semester. 2nd semester also includes a B in ceramics (still don’t know how this happened and makes no sense) but not including that my GPA for academic classes was 3.60. I know that’s far below UMichigans average, but I picked it up my sophomore year & thus far my junior year. I got a 3.86 UNWEIGHTED GPA both semesters sophomore year & first semester junior year. This includes very rigorous corses. My schedule / transcript for sophomore & junior year 1st semester are as follows.

10th grade (same trasncipt both semesters):

Math 3 Honors - B
Honors Chemistry - A
Honors English 2 - A
AP US History - A (4 on AP Exam)
Business Law (S1): A // Consumer Ed (S2): A
Spanish 2 - A

Junior year first semester:

Honors Precalculus- B
AP Chemistry - A
AP Lang - A
AP US Gov - A
Honors Physics - A
Honors Spanish 3 - A

My freshman year was below the average, but the past 3 semesters I’ve averaged a 3.86 GPA unweighted and only gotten 1 B every semester. My overall GPA unweighted is 3.71 and my weighted is 4.20, both including my freshman year grades. My average for sophomore year & S1 junior are 4.52 weighted and 3.86 unweighted, as previously stated. This includes an A in AP Chemistry, one of the hardest courses at my school, where I was the only A in my class this semester. I’ve improved vastly, and I’m just wondering how much my freshman year grades will hurt me. Thanks!

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Upward trend and your doing fine. Don’t worry about it. Keep taking rigorous classes and do well in them.

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There is a lot of stuff considered. Avoid getting any more Bs. Make sure you work hard to kill the ACT/SAT to make up for your below average freshman year, and average sophomore/junior years. Try to have maybe 2 good subject scores and a few great (4/5) AP exam scores so you can show that you can perform at the highest level academically.

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I got a 4 on my APUSH Exam (my first AP Exam). I was the only A in my AP Chemistry class this semester, and my teachers average on the AP Exam a 3.8 with a C average in the class. So, I’m hoping that means a 4 or 5 is very realistic for that exam for me. For AP Gov I should get a 4 or 5 considering my performance in the class & my APUSH exam, and same for AP Lang. I don’t know if I should take AP Psych though. What do you reccomend?