Does USC consider Freshman year grades? Please this has been eating away my brain

<p>jbusc, the application may say that, but the school’s transcript, where GPA is given, lists PE. And if USC just goes by the application self-reported course listings, there’s another problem, because my son is a musician… and there wasn’t nearly enough room for him to put all his music theory and upper level performance courses in their (2 per year per category!) list. Plus he also had college level music courses - no room for those either. Furthermore, naturally he received A’s in all of these courses.</p>

<p>Admissions rep told him to write it into the additional info section. But who knows if it bears the same weight all the way down there.</p>