<p>I've heard many things about the admissions process, and one of those things is that colleges - at least to some degree, possibly varying between colleges - discount your freshman year's grades when they look at your transcript. How much truth is there to this?</p>
<p>Part of me feels like they should be more concerned with your current work than with how you preformed 3 years ago, while another part of me feels that each and every opportunity to show yourself off to colleges is equally as important.</p>
<p>Stanford says they ignore them and Princeton says they look at them but dont consider them in overall equation. However, your transcript contains the grades and and so they do receive the information.</p>
<p>Your GPA is what your school says it is and the colleges don’t care what that number is except for whether you are taking the hardest classes in your school and how well did you do in them.</p>
<p>The question here is if you did somewhat badly in your freshman year, is the college going to overlook it and some colleges claim they do.</p>