<p>Hi im new to the boards and was just wondering if anybody has a list of schools that dont calculate the freshman year into your overall gpa. I know that the UC colleges dont but i was wondering if there were any others.
You see i really bombed my first year and a half. I got a 70 average which is like a D, for the first year and then the same for the 1st semester in 10th grade. I then got a 90 avg in the 2nd semester, and i just got a 93 avg in my first semester junior year.
So i mean my GPA wouldnt look all that bad on any of these schools.
Thanks alot</p>
<p>Michigan is one.</p>
<p>McGill is another</p>
<p>Stanford and Princeton--at least they didn't a few years ago. I haven't checked recently.</p>
<p>jonri, you're correct. Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and most other schools on the Common App have begun to ignore freshmen year, in more ways than one, not limited to GPA. The schools mentioned do not accept letters of rec from teachers from freshmen year and frown upon, but will accept, letters from teachers of your sophomore year. So, basically colleges have given students free rein to screw the first two years of high school.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone else knew other schools, because I bombed freshman year as well.</p>