Bad Freshman Year

supersaian
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:53:07 +0000

Except that colleges do like improvement.
“You have trouble adjusting to situations”? Colleges absolutely recognize that many students do, in fact, find the transition to high school to be difficult. Some, like Stanford, disregard freshman year grades altogether, but even if a college looks at them, they view them with less importance than they do sophomore+junior year grades. I’m getting the feeling that you worked hard in 9th grade and think people who didn’t don’t deserve acceptance. What you listed, though, is more of your own thoughts than what adcoms think when they see positive trends in grades.
ryanmass, I’m not saying that you necessarily have just as much chance as if you had gotten straight A’s, but these grades have not ruined you, either.