<p>Does michigan take into account freshman year?</p>
<p>They will look at it, though most universities will be lenient about freshman year grades if you show improvement in conjunction to increased difficulty of course work. </p>
<p>Michigan did not ask for 9th grade transcripts in the past, but it does now. As darthspectrum said, 9th grade is usually not scrutinized so long as you take a lot of advanced classes in 11th and 12th grade and have a high GPA in 10th, 11th and 12th grade.</p>