<p>I have read on some posts that some colleges do not look at freshman grades. How does that figure into the accum GPA? How do they re-figure? I have a senior daughter looking at some schools…she has a 3.54 accum due to less than stellar freshman year. Does it really matter?</p>
<p>Some colleges officially disregard freshman year (Stanford and Princeton) but others will be somewhat sympathetic about poor grades freshman year if the rest of the transcript is stellar.</p>
<p>Colleges receive an entire transcript. It is not so hard for them to input the data and recalculate a gpa.</p>
<p>So does it make sense to apply to colleges based on the re-calc of the last three years or forget it? What other schools throw out the freshman grades?</p>
<p>No, it makes sense to apply to colleges based on the accumulative.</p>
<p>It makes sense to apply to colleges that she likes, and in which either the cumulative or the last 3 years puts her somewhere in the ballpark (in addition to schools where the cumulative puts her squarely in the ballpark). Let the schools figure out if they’ll accept her. Don’t discount the reaches; they may take her.</p>