<p>I'm just curious to see if anybody got in with any C grades...</p>
<p>I know a couple people who had C+'s for end-of-year grades who didn't have their offers rescinder. But they had already been accepted. I don't know about applying with C's already on your report. It's not likely you will get in with C's, because very few people outside the top 20% of their graduating class (GPA rank-wise) get in, and usually a C will put you out of that range...unless your high school is crazy. But hey, I'm no admissions officer. Who knows?</p>
<p>Well, I had a C+ in Algebra II in sophomore year but I'm still ranked as 24/462. Perhaps getting C's is common in my school, who knows. Would that still prevent me from getting accepted?</p>
<p>i guess it depends what school you go to?</p>
<p>i know one of my best friends got in with a B- average... but then again he has a load of connections, not to mention $$$</p>
<p>i know another guy who got a couple of Cs and still got in.</p>
<p>i guess if you're a normal person (meaning you're not a triple legacy, loads of money) then you really need to have some stellar grades to balance the Cs. make sure you have some awesome ECs and personality traits as well.</p>
<p>I have one C from sophomore year when my aunt had cancer. Will this hurt me too much?</p>
<p>My guess would be that near-perfect SATs could possibly compensate for a C or two and strong EC's.</p>
<p>^not true. You need to be strong enough in every category to get accepted. All colleges, not just Duke, will gladly take a student with low SAT scores and a superior academic record over a student with great SAT scores and C's. I've seen it happen a lot of times and the way that Duke admissions "grades" applications seems to give weight to my observations. Every application is graded on several different criteria. Test scores are certainly important, and your application can never get a top score unless your SATs/ACT are really good (1510+ or 34+), but they will not save an otherwise mediocre applicant.</p>
<p>^If a person has a C or two on his or her transcript, especially if it's in an area that is obviously not his or her strength. For example, the star debater/published novelist with a 1590 SAT who has a C in calculus and the engineer who has won robotics competitions and qualified for USAMO who has a C+ in AP English and got a 2 on the exam but still gets a 730 on Critical Reading (with easy 800 in Math). I think either of these people would still stand a good chance at Duke. Obviously if the person has many C's on his or her report card, he or she will very likely not get into Duke even with high test scores or strong EC's. However, I would say that in certain cases, getting a C on a report card doesn't make you an 'auto-reject'. As someone who attended a moderately competitive public school, I can't speak for the academic rigor of boarding schools and public magnet schools but I'd imagine that many people who attend such places get into schools such as Duke with a few B's or even a C or two, even with sub-1510 SAT scores.</p>
<p>These C's are from honors classes that were hell (only 2 C's for me.) The teacher was some stupid old man who yelled at us because he expected us to know the whol book by memory in 4 days. I'm serious. I don't know why this teacher is still at my school after numerous complaints.</p>
<p>Well I'm just telling you what I have picked up in Admissions. I can't tell you whether your C's are acceptable or not. But I hope they are!! That situation is just really unlucky. I sympathize.</p>
<p>So what's the consensus on my C? I go to a challenging school (public magnet, has 7 noble prize winners, public NYC magnet, top 20 USNWR)</p>
<p>collegehopeful78, where do you go to school?</p>
<p>^I would assume either Bronx sci. or Stuyvesant</p>
<p>everyone calm down. I am at duke right now and know a bunch of people who got 1 or 2 C's in high school. They are not athletes or anything either... Its not the end of the world, as long as everything else is okay.</p>
<p>Yea Bronx Sci. WIll that help a bit?</p>