<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was just wonder if it was true that Princeton simply ignores the Freshmen GPA. Half the schools in US do not rank their High school kids in any manner. </p>
<p>Is it true that that Princeton ignores Freshmen GPA? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Yes, they ignore freshman grades.</p>
<p>Thats very very interesting. So i could potentially be more likely to be accepted into Princeton than say Yale or Penn?</p>
<p>If you have bad freshman grades, then that’s possible.</p>
<p>I have heard Stanford does not count freshman year grades either.</p>
<p>Neither do the UCs.</p>
<p>does anyone know why? i kinda dislike this, since i got straight a’s my freshman year. sophomore year is the only year i got 2 b’s. the rest of the years i’ve gotten straight a’s, but i feel that with that slightly weaker sophomore year, seeing that i got straight a’s freshman year could only help my case. but oh well. :)</p>
<p>Because freshman year was 3 years before the application, and freshmen high school classes are jokes.</p>
<p>not necessarily though. i know freshman who took ap classes. (i was almost one of them but i found out about it too late. :-/) and my freshman year actually boasted what i consider a good academic accomplishment: i was the only freshman deemed talented and qualified enough to be admitted into the newspaper staff at school, which traditionally only admits students after they take “beginning journalism”. but yeah, i’m not trying to cause an argument. i’m just saying that sometimes freshman year can show colleges important info. rare, but it does happen.</p>
<p>^ It’s only freshman GPA though, so it shouldn’t include EC accomplishments as a freshman.</p>
<p>would that count as an EC accomplishment though? the newspaper staff was technically a class…:-/</p>
<p>Case 1) You did really well your freshman year. Well, so did everyone else who applies to Princeton. (1/3 of the people who attend Princeton had unweighted 4.0’s at the time of application, probably at least 2/3 got straight A’s freshman year)</p>
<p>Case 2) You did the same your freshman year as your other years. Then it wouldn’t matter if Princeton cared or not.</p>
<p>Case 3) You did badly your freshman year. Princeton doesn’t care because it’s 3 years ago - if your 10th, 11th, and 12th grade show that you matured, then your bad grades will be pardoned.</p>
<p>but what about freshman year EC’s like the one i mentioned? would it be an EC?</p>
<p>you’re better off not worrying about it anyway. it’s not like you can change it, so why worry about whether it’ll be counted or not.</p>
<p>well, i’m wondering if i should list that as an EC or not.</p>
<p>Go ahead and list it, it can only help you. They don’t ask on the application to omit freshman activities so why should you?</p>
<p>i took some four high school classes in middle school, and they’re on my high school transcript, unfortunately. would those be ignored as well?</p>
<p>lol… high school courses in Mid school.</p>
<p>yeah? algebra, geometry, earth space science, and biology. i went into algebra 2 and chemistry freshman year</p>
<p>Algebra I definitely is not High school.</p>