<p>TheWerg – depends on what you mean by “taken into account”. An adcom reviews your transcript. Each class, each grade, each year. They form an opinion (grades are part of the input into an opinion). Whether the freshman year grades form a part of UC GPA is irrelevant, as the impression has been made. You can’t make that horse go back into the barn.</p>
<p>There <em>are</em> formula UC schools. I believe they are UCSD and UC Davis, where points are assigned tor UC GPA, SATs, SAT IIs, stength of extra curriculars, and several environmental factors like single parent home, underperforming High School, 1st Generation College, etc. The points are summed, and an applicant either did or did not pass the point threshold for that year’s admitted class. UCLA and UCB are not “Formula UCs”.</p>