<p>I understand some colleges, like Johns Hopkins, don't count the 9th grade.</p>
<p>Any others.</p>
<p>The reason this is important to me is that my son has high SAT scores but only a 3.6 unweighted gpa, but I think his worst year was the 9th grade.</p>
<p>Just looking to play every available angle to better his chances of getting into a top school.</p>
<p>princeton and carnegie mellon, im interested in seeing the responses for this one because I would like to know too.</p>
<p>Any other responses?</p>
<p>I would think that this would be an interesting question to at least some of you.</p>
<p>When we attended a Stanford info session for prospective students last fall, the admissions representative stated that they do not consider 9th grade transcripts because they view 9th grade as a “transition year” for many students.</p>
<p>Any others?</p>
<p>I was hoping for more responses.</p>
<p>I thought this might be an interesting issue for many kids applying to college this year.</p>
<p>If there is a concise list of some of the upper tier colleges that don’t consider freshman year grades, that would be great.</p>
<p>Is there such a list?</p>
<p>University of California and California State University count only 10th and 11th grade course grades in specified academic (“a-g”) subjects (with up to 8 semesters of +1 points for honors/AP/college courses) to calculate the GPA used for freshman admissions.</p>
<p>However, do not expect significant financial aid if you are out of state. Full price of UC is like an expensive private university; full price of CSU is less expensive.</p>
<p>University of Texas does not use high school grades at all. However, it uses class rank instead, which may be affected by 9th grade course grades.</p>
<p>I don’t get why people say JHU doesn’t count Freshman grades. They stated so many times that they do</p>
<p>University of Kwulaksit. It is located on planet Ekwii, five thousand light years away. Largely considered by the Laksops as the best university on that planet, with a 1% acceptance rate. The planetary federation is currently friendly to the human race. Their technology is ten thousand years more advanced than that of the human race, so it should make studying science at Kwulaksit very rewarding.</p>
<p>they said they don’t at the admissions office when we visited JH last month</p>
<p>That would be good, but he doesn’t want to study science.</p>
<p>Yeah I dont believe that UC’s look at 9th grade grades. Most colleges might look at it, but dont factor it too much in their overall decision because as someone stated before, its considered a transition year. The transition between middle and high school could be rough for some people.</p>
<p>@All: However, it should be noted that students with strong 9th grade years may win over your son/daughter/you. If one of your peers is a straight A honors student, while you got B’s and maybe 1-2 As freshman year, they may get in while you may not. Just to keep that in perspective.</p>
<p>Yea, as I said, they may look at it if there are two very similar applications as a deciding point. Hopefully not though, my freshman year was sorta rough. 9 A’s, 3 B’s. :/</p>
<p>this thread requires a bump.
I need to know this very badly.</p>
<p>“Hopefully not though, my freshman year was sorta rough. 9 A’s, 3 B’s. :/”</p>
<p>What kind school you are going to if it offers 12 classes a year? Never heard about school like that.</p>
<p>6 classes x 2 semester grading periods - sounds pretty basic to me</p>