<p>OK, so I've been reading somewhat contradictory reports online about whether or not colleges such as Princeton and Stanford count freshman year in your high school GPA.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a list of universities that ignore or explicitly put less weight on freshman year and have a direct source to confirm it?</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a list but I have a direct source to confirm it for one university. </p>
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<p>Nowhere does it say that 9th grade marks are required.</p>
<p>For a lot of schools, they want to see growth and upward trends. My freshman year wasn’t so great,but I still managed to get accepted to a great school! Colleges like to see trends that go up, so not all hope is lost :)</p>
<p>Whoops, missed the direct source thing…</p>
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<p>Right…but I have very high expectations. I want to go to an Ivy league level. Of course, I could just settle for UVA or UMD (both very good schools) and shoot for making it into a solid grad school, but then I’ll spend 4 years being bitter about it. -.-</p>
<p>What I’m afraid of is primarily that colleges that receive lots of applications every year might just enact unofficial cutoff marks, or just glance at my freshman grades and toss my application away before looking at the rest of it. And even if they do see an upward trend, it will be difficult to compete against the loads of 4.0 / 2400 applicants at the Ivies. EC’s can compensate, I know, but while I am certainly not a blank slate, I’m not on the SGA, and I haven’t won any major rewards or scholarships yet.</p>
<p>And darn it…my SAT score just came back. A 2250. I was hoping to break 2300.</p>
<p>I don’t usually do this, but…bump.</p>
<p>Does anyone here have an answer?</p>
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<p>That’s great, and my Dad went there, so I’m technically a legacy.</p>
<p>The UCs and Stanford</p>
<p>As far as McGill is concerned, legacy does not hold any weight.</p>
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<p>I’ve heard of this. Is there a source?</p>
<p>I spoke to an admissions officer at UC Berkeley. They said they only look at freshman to make sure you didn’t fail anything. The GPA they ask for on the UC app is 10-12 GPA.</p>
<p>However, I’m sure if you look hard enough on the UC website I’m sure you’ll find it.</p>
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<p>That’s good info; when did this meeting occur (because I’ve heard that some of these universities have since changed their admissions criteria)?</p>
<p>This year at my school.</p>