How important are freshman year grades for (top) UCs?

<p>Last semester: GPA 4.43
English 9 Honors- A
Geometry Honors- A-
Health- A+
PE- A
Physics Honors- A-
Spanish I- A+
Theology- A</p>

<p>This semester: GPA 4.18 currently
English 9 Honors- A-
Geometry Honors- B+
Computers- A+
PE- B (I can’t swim, so I skipped like 2 weeks worth of PE)
Physics Honors- A-
Spanish I- A+
Theology- A</p>

<p>I am honestly a bit worried about my second sem grades. I’ve heard that many colleges overlook freshman year grades. Does that apply to the top UCs? Also, I’m expecting my PE grade to stay that low for next year as well because we have swim again. Do colleges care about PE grades? Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure they aren’t even looked at by all UCs.</p>

<p>Those are really good grades, and UCs don’t even look at freshman year anyway.
Also colleges (at least UCs) don’t care about PE.
You’re lucky that Geometry is honors at your school, for me Geometry, Algebra II/Trig, and Precalculus are all non-weighted.</p>

<p>Most schools focus on sophomore and junior year, so don’t stress about freshman year. Besides, you got excellent grades, so even they take those into account, it won’t count against you. Oh, and I had the same problem; I can’t swim either. Don’t worry because the admissions people don’t care if you did well in P.E. or not.</p>

<p>Thank you guys so much! So stress-relieved right now.</p>