<p>Hello everyone. How important is the sophomore GPA to ivies and other top schools like MIT, Duke and Stanford? I know the junior year grades are most important but how detrimental is it if your sophomore GPA was a 3.7 and your junior year GPA was a 4.0?</p>
<p>Improving your grades in more challenging courses is a good sign that you are stepping up your game. However all aspects of your application are going to be considered and looked at.</p>
<p>Stanford does not count your freshman year GPA. Its admissions is based upon your 10-11th grade GPA. So I would assume that your sophomore GPA is pretty important for Stanford.</p>
<p>Your entire culmulative GPA, as well as transcript rigor, is important. You don’t need a 4.0 but with top schools, the competition is fierce. Thus a 3.85 GPA student likely won’t fare as well as a 3.98 student, all other things being equal</p>