<p>Ok, I heard that standford doesn't count your freshman year's GPA, is that true? I'm a senior in high school now, I messed up my freshman year, so my GPA is a 3.67, but without freshman year, my GPA is a 3.9- So can anyone answer my question? Does Standford count freshman year?</p>
<p>Hey, Stanford doesn't include your Freshman year GPA. In fact, they're going to whip out a calculator and recalculate your GPA based on CORE classes so when u calculatea ur GPA, be sure to leave out electives. I dunno abotu language classes though. Hope that helps, bye.</p>
<p>does stanford's recalculated GPA include weights for honors/AP courses?</p>
<p>yes, the re-calculations will also include weighing grades of your core classes.</p>
<p>So in a way it's an advantage right? Because my sophmore and junior grades were so much better than my freshman.</p>
<p>Actually, no. They calculate unweighted GPA (academic classes only), disregarding freshman grades.</p>
<p>Oooh no electives? My band and PE grades were the only things keeping my GPA up ;)</p>
<p>So freshman year doesn't count, only core classes like english and math count towards GPA for sophomore and Junior years right?</p>
<p>They will look at freshman year, but it will have very little, if any effect at all.</p>
<p>^ well it will have an effect if you do bad. like im assuming couple C's in freshman year won't hurt your chances, but beyond more than 2 C's, you got a problem</p>
<p>I did really bad in math for freshman year. Like 2 c's for 2 marking periodes. But I worked my ass off in sophmore and junior year, so my GPA is like a 3.93 not including freshman year.</p>
<p>they do not look at freshman year grades, but those grades still affect your class rank.</p>
<p>Does that mean that I"m screwed? Because my over all GPA(including freshman year) is only a 3.65.</p>
<p>^I think you'll be all right. There are other parts of the application that are more important than your freshman year grades.</p>
<p>Anyways...do y'all think Stanford would count AP Art Studio as an elective or an academic course?</p>
<p>elective, most likely. I would think that an Academic course be something like Math and English</p>
<p>So...this means I have the chance of getting into stanford of 0 right? Can you recommend some schools?</p>
<p>wait, so are languages counted as a CORE class? cus ive never gotten anything other than a B in my spanish classes..</p>
<p>well, in my school, we are required to take and language class, so it would count. I don't know abouot your school though. But I'm willing to bet that it's a core class</p>