do you start from a "blank slate" your freshman year of college?

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<p>Haha, I thought I was done with this subforum, but after getting my grades back, I’m afraid I still have various concerns. Does your HS transcript still play a role in your college life for certain things, especially in your freshman year?</p>

<p>I had a significant slide my second semester. Thankfully, there were no semester-grade Cs, and it’s not nearly anywhere to be worried about rescindence (semester average is 93 and yearly average is still 95), but I still have concerns that other things beyond matriculation might still depend on past academic performance.</p>

<p>As a future UVA student who’s trying to apply for Echols after end of first semester, as well as attempt applications for a possible (within-university) transfer, apply for renewable regional scholarships that I missed my first year, look out for possible special programmes, etc. I wonder how much starts from a “clean slate,” especially in your freshman year.</p>

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<p>a tabula rasa (was this locke or voltaire?). Anyways, yes, colleges for the most part discard your hs grades completely (they are still on file but not used).</p>

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<p>Tabula rasa is Aristotle. ;)</p>

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<p>If you’re applying for scholarships spring of freshman year (during financial aid season), is your HS transcript pertinent? And then there’s internships, internal transfer applications, etc.</p>

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<p>@Ealgian - I was just testing you ;-)</p>

<p>For spring scholarships, they will first look at your college track so far, then the might look at the hs transcript for a better picture. From what people tell me about internships (buisness and medical) they only look at college.</p>

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<p>Tabula rasa was so Locke. Maybe Aristotle came up with the idea but the tabula rasa was crucial in Locke’s empiricism.</p>

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<p>Locke (10 char)</p>

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<p><em>rolls eyes</em> Yeah, Locke definitely wrote about it more, but you can bet that he knew about Aristotle. :P</p>