<p>Could you kindly list any and all schools you all know out there which schools do not count 9th grade grades? Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Any UC/CSU.</p>
<p>Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Why do you ask?</p>
<p>Stanford does not, nor does Princeton. HOWEVER, both schools consider class rank, so, in essence, Frosh grades DO "count". While not factored into the UC gpa, the UC readers do see Frosh grades, since they are now required on the app, whereas in the old days, Frosh grades were not on the app.</p>
<p>Michigan doesn't? Crud.</p>
<p>what others?</p>
<p>Again, what's the difference?</p>
<p>Carnegie Melon University</p>
<p>He probably didn't do too well his Freshman year.</p>
<p>Oh rather, one of her three kids :)</p>
<p>Stanford and Priceton accept the Common App, don't they? How could they not see 9th grade activities?</p>
<p>Sorry, I just read the question again and realized it was just about grades. If they ask for the transcript they are going to see 9th grade grades in it, aren't they? Are they going to ignore them?</p>
<p>Some colleges say that they ignore grades from ninth grade, and that is the thrust of the OP's question, but my follow-up question is to ask, why should this matter? because most colleges admit students with less than perfect grade averages anyway, and if all the students with low ninth-grade averages apply to the same list of colleges that ignore freshman grades, they're just competing against one another on the basis of subsequent grades, or test scores, or whatever. My advice would just be to apply everywhere that looks decent, and let the admission committee decide whom to admit.</p>
<p>The reason is because in my sons case, 9th grade was not only bad but a disaster! Without it, his GPA is probably like a 3. 5-3.6 with it, 3.0 or 3.1. Many schools that don't count 9th grade, do see them as they are on the transcript but they reconfigure the GPA again without the 9th grade grades, which obviuosly bodes well for someone like my son The good news is he has been on a continuous upward swing and continues to do well and is in a very rigorous 12th grade IB curriculum to hopefully help offset his miserable 9th grade grades, that is the reason I wanted to know. Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Anyone know USC's policy?</p>
<p>My 3.3 Freshman GPA is severely different from my 4.0 in soph/junior year, with prob 100x harder classes too...thus I'd be very happy if schools logically discount the crappy freshman gpa in easier classes and instead count the better GPA in harder classes.</p>
<p>That is why I like those schools that dont count freshman year - 4.0 GPA vs. 3.8 ish</p>
<p>A fairly low GPA in 9th grade followed by high GPAs in later highschool years only shows your amazing effort. It wouldn't work against you.</p>