<p>Well do not take my advice to heavily, considering my current predicament. But for one, there is a place on the commonapp where you can enlighten the holders of your destiny the reason you received those bad marks. Also as long as you have a final GPA thats above 3.5 u should be fine. And of course this all depends on what you are considering a “good, first tier” school, are we talking ivies or are we talking a good state school?</p>