The Stanford website states that freshman grades are not considered in admissions decisions. Yet the counselor’s recommendation form asks for the student’s class rank as well as GPA(weighted, preferred). It’s not surprising that they want this info, I just wonder how they then “disregard” the 9th grade year. The counselor’s info is based on all 4 years. Insights, anyone?
(At UCs, they also disregard the frosh year, but then the gpa is only calculated on the 10th and 11th grade years, and there is no counselor report.)
<p>they won;t look at ur freshman grades, but ur overall GPA will still be affected by the freshman grades. therefore, they don't completely disregard it, at least that's the way some colleges are like, i don't know about stanford</p>
<p>They prefer that counselors use only sophomore and junior year grades to compute class rank and GPA. However, since doing this requires huge amounts of time which is practically nonexistant at public schools, they also accept GPAs/class ranks that include all three years.</p>
<p>Yes paulhomework is right. The class rank and GPA that they require the counselor to fill out are weighted 10-12 rank and GPA (preferred). 9th grade grades will not be taken into consideration at all if your counselor would be willling to put all the effort into getting you a rank from 10-12 weighted.</p>
<p>Very interesting. It seems that kids with cooperative counselors (providing the gpa would be improved by leaving out 9th grade) would have an edge here. Stanford can recalculate the gpa themselves, but they can't, obviously,do that with rank. And would 1st semester 12th grade grades be available at the time of application? I'm not sure this is so at many schools - so I assume it's 10th ane 11th grade they're interested in.</p>
<p>regarding first semester 12th grade grades, there's a midyear report form that you give to your counselor to send in which details your progress halfway through 12th grade (it's turned in after the regular application)...they ask that you send it in as soon as first semester/trimester is over...but before march 1st....which should give the high school enough time</p>
<p>they can't consider 1st semester grades if you apply early, though, since they give you their decision before the semester ends</p>
<p>Stanford recalculates the gpa counting only academic subjects (no art/music/PE/etc.) starting with 10th grade. But the rank is still based on HS gpa. Many schools don't rank their students, so I don't think that the exact rank matters that much.</p>
<p>Stanford has fallen off my son's list. I'm not sure why.</p>