<p>I had a pretty dismal freshman year(3.08 UW) and I would like to know about any colleges that don't look at freshman year (like the UCs) or that don't give much consideration to the grades one gets in freshman year. </p>
<p>P.S. upward trend in IB curriculum(3.08 - frosh, 3.333 - soph, extra classes in summer combined with junior year - 3.9+).</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The University of Michigan doesn’t look at grades from your freshman year.</p>
<p>The Leland Stanford Junior University</p>
<p>@ rjkofnovi: I forgot about UMich! nice nice. Is it difficult to get into OOS?</p>
<p>@ u§ername: I’ve never heard of The Leland Stanford Junior University. If you don’t mind, what are some of the better qualities of the university?</p>
<p>Perhaps you can do some rethinking. Since you made such good progress since freshman year, maybe it would be to your advantage to have schools include that. No school will base its acceptance solely on your GPA, which would include that year. All schools would be impressed by how you matured, realized that you needed to work, and found a good success as you grew up, especially since you were in the IB program, which is quite a lot of work-- as you know! You should be proud of yourself!</p>
<p>@ franglish: that’s a really good point. idk i always saw my freshman and sophomore years as an obstacle and college admissions getting so much more competitive these days, I’ve been stressed about it. The idea that my struggles in freshman year and sophomore year could be used to prove how i’ve grown up is actually really intriguing. I’m definitely going to look into that. I’m going to ask my gc a good way to discuss my increased maturity throughout high school in my app. </p>
<p>a question though: is an upward trend like mine really that helpful? Maybe it would be better if the school never really even considered my freshman year grades. Or would that make me like everyone else, with decent grades for two years of high school?</p>
<p>you never heard of stanford? <em>GASP</em></p>
<p>also upward trend is good, but not as good as a straight 4.0. so yeah…</p>
<p>@username: ■■■■■. epic fail on my part. </p>
<p>MORE COLLEGES MORE!</p>
<p>princeton, i’m pretty sure.</p>
<p>Does Rice look at freshman year grades?</p>
<p>Yeah, sure, Stanford and P’ton “claim” that they ignore Frosh grades, but yet Class Rank is an admissions factor. Since class rank includes frosh grades…without a hook, fuhghedditaboutit.</p>
<p>any others?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t the upward trend make up for it though? What’s your class rank like anyway?</p>
<p>@ QuasiProfound: I am in the top 10% of my class but barely. I’ve never fully understood how good an upward trend (like mine) is when compared to a student who had consistently gotten a 3.6/3.7 in high school. Wouldn’t the college want the kid who was consistent over someone who fluctuated from a 3.08 to a 3.9+? I really have no idea. Do you have any insight on the matter?</p>
<p>Actually, this is something I want to know too. I have basically the same problem, but I’m an international student so I don’t have to send my 9-10 grades…still, I’d like to know, just in case.</p>
<p>the leland stanford junior university is the full name for stanford. its confusing because it has “junior” in it and makes us think of junior colleges, but its just named after leland stanford jr.</p>
<p>Princeton 10char</p>
<p>University of California and California State University calculate high school GPA without course grades from 9th grade (but you need to get C or higher in 9th grade courses which you use to fulfill the specified number of years of English, math, etc.). However, the semi-holistic admissions processes used at some of the campuses will see the 9th grade course grades.</p>
<p>This is an old thread. Michigan DOES look at freshman grades currently.</p>
<p>^^Princeton does too; it’s called class rank.</p>