D's freshman grades dragging down GPA

dmd77
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:05:51 +0000

If freshman year grades mattered to MIT, my son wouldn’t have gotten in.

For that matter, if a 4.0 mattered to MIT (even if they just looked at 10-12), my son wouldn’t have gotten in.

Even the top public schools, where everything is by the numbers, allow for lower GPAs if the SATs are higher, and vice versa. http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html