<p>As an international, I was curious about what years matter most for the GPA?
Am I mistaken in believing that freshman grades count but not as much as senior ones?
Do Ivy League schools average the GPA over your years of high school?
or, take your last one as the most informative?
For example, time say you had a freshman grade of 3.6 and improved to an unweighted senior one of 4.0 would you still stand a chance at a school like Harvard?
Any information would be very helpful!</p>
<p>junior year is probably most important, but what is most important is to have an increasing trend in your gpa over the 4 years</p>
<p>colleges like to see improvement and people who are willing to improve, so basically the year that one screwed up the most is probably the important in my opinion lol who gets into harvard these days anyway?</p>
<p>harvard-schmarvard :P (though i wish...)</p>
<p>They look at your overall GPA (whether school-calculated or sometimes they recalculate it), and they also look at your transcript overall. Your transcript accounts for the differences in the level of difficulty of your courses, as well as for years that might stick out from the rest. For example, if you suddenly start doing poorly in your senior year before decisions come out (there is some leniency for senioritis) and have no reason, it'd probably look worse than if you had done poorly freshman year. Some schools don't even look at freshman year grades (like Princeton and Stanford). Basically, if you have one year that you messed up on (of course, with due reason, anything's okay), it's best if it's your freshman year, because it'll help show that you are trying to improve and started to work harder.</p>