<p>How Important is Freshman year? Do colleges look at it that much, cause I may have screwed up freshman year, but did well 10 and 11.</p>
<p>Most of the colleges that overlook Freshman year completely are selective enough that if you were really 'screwing up' (and not just "OMG I got a B in math") you shouldn't be looking at them anyway.</p>
<p>It's a matter of degree; it's the least important year, but they won't ignore it. If you were more specific, that would help.</p>
<p>Well that depends, is final GPA the GPA of all 4 terms, or is it of your final average. It depends what it is, but I had 3.6 UW all 4 terms.</p>
<p>BTW, is CMU such a college that will not look at it?</p>
<p>Bump....anyone know?</p>
<p>they'll tell you on their websites. Ex, stanford specifically says that they do not factor your 9th grade grades into their recalculated gpa.</p>
<p>Where would it say this?</p>
<p>A bad freshmen year will have a negative effect on your gpa(for some schools) and rank. But don't forget that colleges don't mind seeing an upward trend if you did improve the years after.</p>