<p>Well, I'm a senior in high school right now. I'm in the top 4% of my class (rank 10/260-265), but I do have a C+ on my transcript from junior year, and now I have one this year so far. Does this mean I'm out of the running everywhere competitive? By competitive, I mean colleges rank 30+. I have the grades in differential calculus honors (junior year) and AP physics B (senior year), which were pretty difficult courses for everyone in my class. </p>
<p>I have had, 16 As, 7 Bs, and 2 Cs...now I'm depressed. :(</p>
<p>Depends quite a bit on what field you want to go into. If you are apping to top 30 engineering schools they will not much care for the C’s in Calc and Physics while apping for a liberal arts program they would probably be impressed to see that you took on such difficult material (though with a C+ I doubt they would be droping to their knees to worship you).</p>
<p>I am applying to mostly liberal arts schools–I excel in humanities and that’s what I plan on doing. Do you think I should ask my guidance counselor to write something about the difficulty of the class (I’d say at least half of the class had Cs anyways)?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t bother the difficulty of Calc classes is pretty standard across the US.</p>
<p>well, I meant my AP physics class…the other students have been complaining about the teacher from the start, not just me. Plus its his first year teaching an AP class, so he basically rushes through every chapter, afraid that we will fail the AP test (thanks to his rushing, we probably will anyways…).</p>
<p>bumping this up with another question to add onto this one.</p>
<p>So if I have a pretty high rank, but Cs, will someone also applying to the same colleges as me have a better chance if they have better letter grades, but lower rank? I’m talking within the context of my high school.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry TOO much. I got two C+s my first semester of Junior year (APUSH and AP Lang) and I got into Columbia Engineering ED</p>