<p>Do they look at Frosh Grades? If so, how far back do they look, like at eighth grade, too?</p>
<p>Yes, they look at freshman year, but not eighth grade.</p>
<p>I heard that they don’t majorly, but the same thought is reverberating in my mind.</p>
<p>I think they only consider the last three years of hig schoo.</p>
<p>*high school</p>
<p>As long as your grades are fine, like Bs and whatnot, then you should be alright</p>
<p>The question is just how many B’s are considered “alright” before it seriosuly starts diminishing your application gretly??? This is one of the many gray areas in college admissions.</p>
<p>I don’t think they should care about frosh grades, it’s the first year of high school, at my school teachers try to fail you and they tell you that.</p>
<p>yale considers grades from 9th to 11th grade in their decision for EA.</p>
<p>do the type of courses taken in 9th affect chances? i had all A’s in 9th grade, but i only took 4 solids - geometry, 2nd year french, frosh english, and frosh science (no honors classes available for freshmen at my school) + i had dance, 1 sem speech, 1 sem computers, and an off-campus year of pe credits ( 15 hrs/week of ballet training).</p>
<p>soph year i smartened up and doubled on foreign language (2nd yr spanish +3rd year french) and added history.<br>
now i am talking 7 academics (double science and double language)</p>
<p>will my slacker freshmen year hurt me? i still regret not taking that elective history course!!</p>
<p>I’m wondering about how many B’s affect your chances of SCEA also… I’ve always taken the most rigorous course load at my high school (and my school is crazy competetive… when Yale visited and the dean of admissions who came as a surprise guest asked who will have taken more than 8 APs upon graduation the whole room raised their hands) anyway… I havn’t earned straight A’s and I’m wondering to what extent that hurts my chances of admission</p>
<p>depends what kind of straight A’s</p>
<p>I’m hoping they don’t look at frosh too much, that one C can’t be good.</p>
<p>So do I need to show them my 9th grade report cards and stuff? Crap…I need to find those.</p>
<p>Is it possible that my guidance counselor has copies still?</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor will provide your transcript to Yale. </p>
<p>Yale looks at grades starting with freshman year. Freshman year is the least important–better to have received a couple of Bs then than as a junior–but it still counts. The same goes for the rigor of your classes. Admissions officers care more that you took the most rigorous courseload in subsequent years, but they’ll obviously prefer someone who took the toughest course beginning in 9th grade.</p>
<p>How many Bs will keep you out? It depends on the rest of your profile. If you’re low income and Native American, you can have more Bs than if you’re upper income and white. If you’re a top pick recruited athlete, you can have more Bs than if you have no standout ECs. If you go to a high school that the admissions office knows has severe grade deflation, you can have more Bs than a high school with dozens of people graduating with an unweighted 4.0.</p>
<p>In any, you don’t need a 4.0 unweighted to get in. Lots of people with a few Bs get in every year. People with a C on their transcript (and maybe even two!) get in every year. The process is holistic.</p>
<p>Will 3 B+'s, a B, and a B- destroy my chances for Yale SCEA if I took the hardest courseload in my high school’s history and all the B grades were in math/science AP classes which I have no interest in majoring in? See the thing is, a lot of kids in my school end up with a 4.0 UW GPA because they take easy classes and some don’t take AP’s till senior year. To add to the problem, my school doesn’t weight GPA’s so the quality of my courseload doesn’t affect my GPA at all and I’m subsequently only in the top 15 percent of my school as a result. Any honest replies will be greatly appreciated!!!</p>
<p>evil<em>asian</em>dictator, I’m the same way, only with 2 B’s in math/science AP courses I’m not majoring in.</p>
<p>I know this doesn’t answer your question–I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone in this ;)</p>