<p>will they kill my chances?
i have consistently been getting a B in AP math...so that will not hurt me, but I have dropped from an A to an A- in both my AP history classes this quarter...and i have always gotten an A in them before
i didn't hold up under the pressure and i feel like adcoms will see the fall in my grades and understand what it means
plus...this puts my GPA under the 3.75 benchmark</p>
<p>This is a second semester grade that you’re talking about, is it not? Generally, in fact, near universally, first semester grades go on the MYR. Harvard won’t see your second semester grades until long after decisions are made, and it’ll only see them if you’ve been accepted and plan to attend. If you get in, an A- would not lead to your acceptance being rescinded.</p>
<p>As long as you’re in the top 10th percentile at your high school, if your high school ranks, you should be fine.</p>
<p>My second semester grades probably dropped by a full GPA point because I essentially stopped doing work. If that didn’t get me rescinded, an A- won’t mess you up. Sorry to be a bad role model.</p>
<p>Second semester seniors need to relax…</p>
<p>this is FIRST SEMESTER grades</p>
<p>of course i wouldn’t care about an A- second semester</p>
<p>Please relax. An A- will not seriously damage your chances. You are only human, and human performance will fluctuate. People have been known to get into Harvard with a B+ every year of high school and no hooks – gasp!</p>
<p>What is this 3.75 GPA benchmark to which you refer? Harvard does not have a minimum GPA for admissions. Please explain?</p>
<p>At my high school, the senior class had eight students with 4.0s to begin the year. Now, there is one, possibly two. I am applying this year, as a third-year applicant (so therefore I am ranked within the junior class), and juniors seem to be far more academically competitive than seniors at this point. Also, the enrollment in my accelerated courses has dropped significantly this semester due to the fact that many students are now safely enrolled in their colleges and wish to coast the remainder of the way. And yes, that can cause issues between the student and the college.</p>
<p>But it is true that second semester senior-year grades hold less weight than those from first semester.</p>
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<p>Lemonio is not saying that he is no longer qualified. He simply feels that his GPA is not at an optimum level due to his slight dip in performance.</p>
<p>first of all its not one, but 3 A-'s
as for the 3.75, that is used typically in grade reporting
for instance on the sat collegeboard says something like
3.75-4.0
3.33-3.75
3.0-3.33
something like that
plus 3.75 is slightly above an A-
if I go below 3.7 that is below an A-</p>
<p>plus…the people who got into harvard with B+ averages are geniuses in some artistic activity or URMs</p>
<p>I don’t see that your academic performance has changed <em>substantially</em> this term from the previous term. You said you have kept the B in math. If you have three A-minuses, you presumably have kept an A- in another course, for you have dropped from A to A- in only two courses. That’s not a big change. </p>
<p>A clarification: I was not referring to people who get into Harvard with B+ averages, 'though they do exist; I was referring to one B+ grade in each of the four years of college, just as an example of an imperfect academic record. My point was simply that people get into Harvard with imperfect grades and with grade fluctuations such as you have experienced.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about A-'s too much. I did before, but I got over it.</p>
<p>“I was referring to one B+ grade in each of the four years of college”</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant to type, “high school,” not “college,” in my reply (#11) above.</p>