<p>All my final grades have ended up being mostly A-'s this past year and the year before. I'm always right between an A- and an A or barely have an A, but the final leaves me at an A-. Does this have any effect on my chances of getting into a school like Georgetown? I've also gotten one B in AP Biology sophomore year and one B+ in Grade 9 Honors English.</p>
<p>There are so many threads on here about chances and requirements that I’m not going to even attempt to synthesize them here for you, except to say that your grades are important. But so is your rank, and your standardized test scores, and your leadership positions, and how tough is your school, and were those A-'s in AP classes instead of mid-honors classes, and your athletic abilities, and your involvement in community, and your school extra curriculars, and did your grades get better and up and to the right as you progressed from freshman to senior year, and how many hours you worked part time while pulling off all of the above, etc etc etc. </p>
<p>I guarantee you there are kids at Georgetown who got mostly B’s in high school. And not all of them had parents who are legacies who donate a million a year to the school. Those kids had something else going for them that admissions saw in them, and that made admissions think “Hey we want this kid here”. </p>
<p>Do the best you can in the toughest courses available to you an make sure you pick a wide swatch of schools to apply to and if you know in your heart you’ve done all you can with what you have, then you can sleep at night no matter how things turn out.</p>