<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>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>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>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>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>