<p>does jhu count freshman year as part of your gpa? and does jhu only look at unweighted grades or do they weigh it as well? my high school doesn't weigh grades.</p>
<p>...anyone?</p>
<p>You expected an answer in 8 minutes?</p>
<p>i already answered part of your question in the other thread lol O.o and i believe no school is going to give you a direct answer to that question probably because there is no direct answer</p>
<p>lol, he has comcast high-speed internet so he probably expected an answer in 2 seconds</p>
<p>people on yahoo answers give responses within seconds O_o</p>
<p>but yes, i understand that it's worldwide.</p>
<p>they tally sophomore and junior year</p>
<p>Ok, first the comments about speed of response made me laugh out loud. </p>
<p>Second, l1ght_headed, please do not send me a private message if you have already posted the question on the discussion board already. I will answer questions, but unfortunately this is not my full-time job -- I have other responsibilities and can not check CC every 5 minutes.</p>
<p>And now to your questions:</p>
<p>You would think there is an easy yes/no answer questions about GPA, but unfortunately there is not. GPA is a really tricky admission statistic for us and one we typically do not publish. Every high school (and I mean EVERY school) computes GPA differently, have different weighting systems, have different grading systems, etc. </p>
<p>For statistical purposes we produce an average, unweighted GPA that would be considered a "recalculated" GPA. Many publications require certain admissions statistics and GPA is one of those, so every year we must calculate an average GPA even though we strongly feel this is a misleading admissions stat. The re-calculated GPA takes your grades in the main academic subjects (english, math, science, history, and foreign language) for 10th and 11th grade and places it on an unweighted 4.0 scale - and yes +/- are considered.</p>
<p>The important thing to note though is that this statistical GPA is not what admissions counselors will base their decisions on. We evaluate the complete transcript - up and down, left and right, over and over - and do not base our decisions on this recalculated GPA. A student's curricular rigor is extremely important to us.</p>
<p>Suddenly remembered a question - my school doesn't use +/-'s; teachers only give out letter grades. Will that be taken into account? I've had two very high B's this year that would translate into B+'s, and I'm wondering how that will work.</p>
<p>Or is the discrepancy negligible, and I should focus my attention elsewhere?</p>
<p>i think what admission daniel meant was through this
"Many publications require certain admissions statistics and GPA is one of those, so every year we must calculate an average GPA even though we strongly feel this is a misleading admissions stat. The re-calculated GPA takes your grades in the main academic subjects (english, math, science, history, and foreign language) for 10th and 11th grade and places it on an unweighted 4.0 scale - and yes +/- are considered"
was that the recalculated gpa includes +/- but that is only for publication purposes only, hence the 3.7 unweighted published in the princeton review and in us news because more students who get in jhu probably earn more A-(3.7) than B+(3.3).
edit: I do hope i didn;t misinterpret something again =(</p>
<p>PrescitedEntity:
When we review a student's transcript we pay particular attention to the school's profile and the various grading factors involved that differ from school to school -- such as grading scales, numeric or letters grades, +/- options, course offerings, rigor of course offerings.</p>
<p>Since you have no control over this stuff, don't worry. Just know we factor everything in when reviewing transcripts.</p>
<p>Thank you. I thought as much, but just wanted confirmation. Much relieved!</p>
<p>i heard freshman gpa doesnt count in JHU.</p>
<p>I guess I have to specifically answer this question:
Freshman year grades and courses are reviewed when the Admissions counselor is looking over the applicant's transcript. They are not included in the unweighted GPA that is calculated for statistical purposes, as I mentioned above. In terms of importance they matter, by Sr. Yr., Jr. Yr. and Soph. Yr. matter more.</p>
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Freshman year grades and courses are reviewed when the Admissions counselor is looking over the applicant's transcript. They are not included in the unweighted GPA that is calculated for statistical purposes, as I mentioned above. In terms of importance they matter, by Sr. Yr., Jr. Yr. and Soph. Yr. matter more.
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<p>I think it is pretty unrealistic when people think that freshman grades don't or shouldn't matter at all. Of course upward trends are important and latter years count more, but all things being equal, having good freshman year grades can only be a plus.</p>
<p>Colleges are trying to paint an accurate picture of thousands of applicants from a piece of paper with some numbers on it. They are going to use all of the information they have available to them.</p>
<p>well stated!</p>
<p>No offense to anyone, but I think, in my opinion, observing my friends and myself included; people general tend to do badly in freshman year due to the new social/academic environment that they've entered. But as you get use to your surroundings, you usually tend to do a lot more better. I, for one, am an example of this opinion. I asian failed gr 9, and now I'm holding a 3.95 GPA for junior year. So, sure it is good to have great freshman stats; that just means you can get use to change of academic/social surrounding quick. But, not having a great freshman score doesn't reflect your whole academic life in high school.</p>
<p>And trust me man, i was worried about not getting into JHU because of my poor results in gr. 9. I just was not encouraged enough. I mean, we are only human, so it is hard to be good right off the bat.</p>
<p>As the old quote goes</p>
<p>"With practice, comes perfection"</p>
<p>4 years of practice, first year you did bad so what, nobody is perfect right off the bat. If you were, I would say congratulations to you, why are you in high school? you've just destroyed the experience.</p>
<p>How much do you factor in senior grades from the mid-year report, compared with Junior/Sophomore grades?</p>
<p>I imagine most recent is most important.</p>