D's freshman grades dragging down GPA

cptofthehouse
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:53:29 +0000

There are schools that won’t overlook bad grades freshman year or any mistake, for that matter. The selectivity level of such schools is such that they have too many “perfect” records to have to fool around with deciding what info to ignore. They even have kids who do well despite horrible circumstances.
But for all but the very top schools, there are good margins for error.
Any of the smaller schools that scrutinize the apps, will give consideration–it may not be enough to get her in if the competition that year is heavy, but they will not automatically diss her.