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the schools you are targeting don’t care about the GPA as defined by your high school. They review your HIGH SCHOOL transcript class by class, year by year. They recompute your GPA in a format that makes sense to them. They will not count 8th grade at all, and won’t give 9th grade a lot of attention. It’s all about showing you learned the fundamentals by performing well in 10th grade, especially 11th grade, and sometimes, first semester of 12th grade as well. 9th and 8th grade are pretty irrelevant to an adcom.</p>