<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>Yes they do along with Stanford, UPenn, UMich, and all the UC's.</p>
<p>I am willing to bet that most top colleges disregard freshmen year but just have not said it publicly.</p>
<p>penn doesnt look at freshman year either?? whered you hear that.</p>
<p>I'm fairly sure Penn does look at freshman year, now whether they weigh it as much as other 3 years is another question.</p>
<p>Many colleges disregard the freshman year in calculating your GPA. However, even if they didn't, most colleges still "recalculate" your GPA in one way or another.</p>
<p>Sucks for me. Freshman year was my best year. :(</p>
<p>me too lol</p>
<p>Freshman year was my worst year, significantly lower than the other two... Hmm. Either way, my freshman year grades impacted my rank, but if Penn doesn't look at them as much as sophomore or junior year, I'm happy.</p>
<p>I had a good freshman year too.</p>
<p>So, they don't look at anything below freshman year? (I took high school classes in 7th and 8th and made horrible grades)</p>
<p>Most schools look at all four years. Stanford & the UC's are the ones that don't look at the 9th grade. Most other competitive schools do include it.</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania does look at the 9th grade, BTW.</p>
<p>Also, no school looks at the 7th & 8th grade.</p>
<p>Even though schools look at freshman, sophomore, and junior year grades, they put more emphasis on the junior year grades than the freshman grades (which I am very thankful for).</p>
<p>If your high school ranks its students the practical impact of this recalculation is marginal. A student can get the benefit of an "upward trend" in his grades, but when a class rank is provided the GPA is trivialized.</p>
<p>Wow awesome. Then I have a 4.0..</p>
<p>Recalculating GPA is useful if your school doesn't weight grades. Then an AP class has the same worth as Cooking, which obviously colleges won't consider very challenging.</p>
<p>How would recalculating grades work if your HS doesn't offer Honors/AP classes?</p>