<p>I say this only because I’m curious… can you direct me to those pages where it says so? Thanks.</p>
<p>I think you can do that yourself. Maybe if you actually answer my question I’ll give you links.</p>
<p>I thought that the others had sufficiently answered your question. My apologies. Aside from the most competitive such as Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, and Penn, I feel that you have a great chance of being admitted. As for those most competitive ones, I’d say you have a shot. Do you have a lot of leadership experience?</p>
<p>I’m the editor of my school’s yearbook, I’m a leader in a nonprofit that takes kids to Detroit for relief work, and I mentor freshmen and help them adjust to high school.</p>
<p>If you come off in your essays as you come off in your posts on this forum, I don’t think you’ll be accepted.</p>
<p>Oh ok thanks I’m sure I will!!!</p>
<p>I’ve looked at the colleges admissions pages of the schools you’ve denoted…I can’t find any where that any of the schools mention that freshman grades are not counted. To the contrary, Stanford says it looks for “high achievement in all 4 years of high school”.</p>
<p>I specifically remember seeing on Stanford’s website that they count “tenth through twelfth grades.”</p>
<p>Maybe they changed it in the past year, but when I visited Stanford last August, the rep specifically said that they completely ignore freshman year grades.</p>
<p>Live4Physicz…</p>
<p>Good shot at all</p>
<p>Reaches would be Stanford, Princeton, MIT (less chance because no leadership whatsoever)</p>
<p>But still congrats on ACT thats awesome. I only got a 33. I might not like you just because of that.</p>
<p>Wait what? Are you saying I have no leadership whatsoever? I’m editor in chief on my school’s yearbook and a leader in a nonprofit that takes high schoolers/college kids to Detroit to provide free care for underprivileged kids…and a freshman mentor…</p>
<p>Princeton, Stanford and a number of other top schools don’t count 9th grade when calculating GPA, but they still consider your performance, and it still affects your class rank. Search the forums of these schools and you’ll find numerous threads about how they calculate your GPA. </p>
<p>And to the OP, are you actually applying to 16 schools, or are you just considering those schools?</p>
<p>pch: haha, I’m just considering them. They’re all good in engineering and most are just all-round well-regarded. </p>
<p>And my school doesn’t rank. And someone who said they went to an info session at Stanford last summer said the rep said their admissions committee “doesn’t look at them whatsoever.”</p>