<p>Do schools use your freshman GPA with your overall GPA? I’ve heard that some schools don’t use your freshman GPA to calculate your GPA. Is this true?</p>
<p>If it is, at the end of my junior year, I could have a waited 4.0 GPA. If it isn’t, my w GPA would only be at most a 3.6.</p>
<p>Do schools in general consider more heavily your w GPA? Or do most schools just look at them the same?</p>
<p>And does someone who took only honors classes, but has a high GPA look better than someone who took a lot of AP classes but has a lower GPA (uw)?</p>
<p>I’m not talking about any specific school. Just in general… I know its different for every school. But what are the most common practices? (Or among specific groups of schools?)</p>
<p>Yeah. Upwards trends are always good, downwards trends are usually bad. And schools definitely look at rigor of your education. If you took the hardest set of classes available at your school, you’re given a bit more leniency in your grades than someone who took unweighted classes, or what are obviously easier classes. But remember, admins don’t necessarily know what all your classes are. classes with titles like IB US Gov/Econ don’t tell the admissions officers anything (one of my classes looked like this on my transcript, but it was for IB History of the Americas… because History of the Americas doesn’t fill our state’s econ credit unless it’s titled econ). They do look at class rank, but not to the point (typically) where if you’re a couple of spots behind someone else, but are more impressive in your essays and whatnot, that they’ll take the person ranked above you rather than you.</p>
<p>From waht I know though, in general, schools do consider freshman GPA, but they look at test scores to verify the rigor of your curriculum. If they see people in your school with 1400 SATs and 4.0 GPAs, then obviously GPA hardly even matters.</p>