<p>Hullo dere. My son had mediocre grades in the freshman year of HS, and since then has buckled down, doing much better in 10th and (so far) 11th grades. Someone from U of Michigan told us that they disregard 9th grade grades when analyzing the transcript. What other colleges do this? (Preferably eastern half of the country, uni as opposed to LAC.) Thanks!!</p>
<p>Princeton specifically does. Many other colleges probably do as well, or at least significantly discount the importance of freshmen grades.</p>
<p>Princeton only takes into account the last two years. Meaning, if you took a gap year, they consider only JUNIOR and SENIOR grades.</p>
<p>I'm not sure they completely disregard them, but a strong upward trend that you've described would in all likelihood make the 9th grade grades very unimportant. But note that some large state universities do apparently use a very specific and rigid formula, and the GPA used in that formula would obviously include the ninth grade grades.</p>
<p>University of Michigan, if my memory serves me.</p>
<p>All of the UCs.</p>
<p>Many highschools do not send freshman year grades and do not figure them into the GPA.</p>
<p>UMich is correct. They use the 10th and 11th grades to calculate the UMich GPA.</p>
<p>Don't know about the east coast, but Stanford on the West.</p>
<p>I always thought that was a UC thing. All the colleges that I've looked at for my two kids (probably about 18) count all four years. For my son, that's a blessing, for my daughter it would have saved us thousands of dollars. Son had a 3.7 in Fresh. year, daughter had about a 3.2. By graduation our daughter had about a 3.7 but it took a good upward trend to do that.</p>
<p>Someone told me Penn and Lehigh. Would anyone know if those are correct?</p>