lots of schools will mainly just look at your 'trend' over 4 years but having a 2.0 put into your cumulative GPA will probably keep you from getting into harvard or something
okay, so my dad is the kind of guy who will bring up stanford when considering my grades because he's concerned that i won't have all the available college options by the end of high school.
i got a 4.0 freshman year fairly easily, but this year (sohpomore) i got a single B+ (it was like 88.9%, i'm pissed about it) making my cumulative GPA 3.96, and he has vaguely threatened to take my computer from me because he thinks a B like that will make me lose the ability to get into stanford.
it's not like i plan on going to stanford anyways, but that seems absolutely ridiculous to me. i just don't know if it's actually ridiculous.