<p>I have been keep hearing that Princeton recalculates your GPA so that it doesn't take account the freshmen year... is this true???</p>
<p>If it is true...my weighted gpa would go up from 4.56 to 4.86...lol and my unweighted gpa would be 4.0....ahhh that would be my dream come true.</p>
<p>lol it doesnt really help me.</p>
<p>my unweighted gpa would go from 4.0 to 4.0.</p>
<p>but my weighted gpa would go up.</p>
<p>my gpa without frosh year goes up a lot, but then without waiting back down. I'm not sure how it worked out this way, but my gpa remains exactly (to the thousandths) the same once Princeton recalculates it.</p>
<p>arbiter, it seems as if you know exactly how P'ton recalculates gpa.</p>
<p>mind posting up the formula?</p>
<p>From what I've been told and gathered from their information they cut out
-Anything prior to Sophmore year.
-Non-Academic Electives (Computer Science is in, Acting 1-4 is out)
-Weighting</p>
<p>Woohooo, they cut out electives! Arbiter, you made my day! :D</p>
<p>Sweet; you're easy to please. Glad I could help.</p>
<p>lol btlesgirl i am very happy for you.</p>
<p>i took band, which isn't weighted, but that shouldn't look too bad? i would've hated myself if had chosen something like comp sci just to make my gpa look better. band is so much fun! (lol i am band manager too)</p>
<p>I took comp sci and was one of the best in the class... and got a 3.5 x( But my CS teacher wrote one of my recommendations and I assistant taught the introductory Java class while I was taking the AP, so it works out. APCS == t3|-| \/\/1|| !</p>
<p>wait, so PRINCETON does NOT look at freshmen year grades at all????</p>
<p>Like if someone got all C's, and another student got all A's, they wouldn't even care?</p>
<p>i mean, if an applicant did well his/her freshmen year, is it any sort of plus?? like i was thinking that maybe P'ton just doesnt penalize someone for a crappy yr, but might give some props to someone who hit his/her high school career running.</p>
<p>They still look at them, they just dont factor the freshman grades into your gpa.</p>
<p>How is band an academic elective?</p>
<p>lol. .</p>
<p>Yay! That's some good news. My GPA actually went up quite a bit.</p>
<p>Comp sci is definately an academic elective.</p>
<p>I actually called Princeton and asked them about their recalcuation method.</p>
<p>1) they only looks at your core courses (English, Foreign Lang., Math, Science, Humanities (history).</p>
<p>2) All A's A-'s A+'s are made into an A (vice versa for the others)</p>
<p>A-4
B-3
etc</p>
<p>3) Freshmen is NOT IGNORED. It IS CALCULATED into the overall GPA. HOWEVER any grade slips will not be seen as something HORRIBLE. e.g a B+ in freshmen year will be glossed over.</p>
<p>4) They do NOT weight anything.</p>
<p>This saves my ass seeing that i have ALOT of A-s lol.
But then again... alot of schools in the US give out A's for a 90% average.
o well.</p>
<p>Hope this clears up everything.</p>
<p>Wow. My GPA just jumped up to 4.0 =p I have 5 A-'s over the last three years (AP courses and some electives).</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>NP.
My gpa jumps from a 3.67 to a 3.87. (i have B+s for french all four years... so hehe)</p>
<p>Wait, by that system a 3.5 (an A- here) would become a 4.0. In which case I have a 4.0 GPA. That doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>again my gpa jumps from 4.0 to 4.0</p>
<p>but this system is kinda weird. so, someone who gets straight 89.5%'s would have equal gpa to someone who gets 99%??</p>
<p>please excuse my french, but ***?!?!?!!</p>
<p>Yes Yes! Hope This Applies For Internationals! Lol.</p>