Does stanford check freshman grades?

jsungoh
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:43:04 +0000

In all technicalities (just to resolve this question), even if Stanford doesn’t look at Freshman grades (like UC’s), they do. Not directly at the grades during freshman year, but the rank / percentage tier you are in (for example, rank 23, in the top 10% etc). Since your freshman year for most high schools is considered in the ranking/percentage system, it is in all sense “counted”. Thus, it is advised that you try not to mess up freshman year.