<p>I transferred to a different high school after my freshman year, so I have two transcripts, one for my freshman year and one for my sophomore-senior year. Throughout my time at my current school, my college counselor has told me that my cumulative GPA would be accounted for all 4 years on my current schools transcripts, however the counselors office just sent out an email saying that if we attended a different high school previously, then we would have to meet with them to recalculate our GPA. My first application is due Tuesday and I don't have any time to access my Freshman transcript to recalculate. Would it be acceptable to list my cumulative GPA that I have access to (sophomore/junior year) and list in the additional comments that I didn't have access to my freshman year transcripts when calculating my GPA? Should I just not list a GPA at all and let them calculate it when they recieve my transcripts? I don't want the college to think I'm lying about my GPA.</p>
<p>If you know your freshman year GPA (or even just a close approximation), you can get a close approximation of the total by the following formula:</p>
<p>(Freshman Year GPA/3) + (2*Soph and Junior Year Combined GPA/3)</p>
<p>Or, freshman year GPA divided by three plus sophomore and junior year combined GPA multiplied by two thirds.</p>
<p>It’ll be close enough if you don’t have any other way of doing it. Colleges will often recalculate the GPA on their own method anyway.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t even have a ballpark on what my GPA was. :/</p>
<p>Do you remember your grades and classes?</p>
<p>I remember my classes but not my grades. Honestly at this point it’s less about trying to calculate my freshman year and more about how I should report or not report on the common app.</p>