<p>If you make a high natural B in an AP class (which translates into a high A with the extra 10 AP credit points), will colleges look down on you? Or will they look more at your inflated grade? When colleges look at your grade on the transcript, do they subtract the 10 points?</p>
<p>I wonder the same thing</p>
<p>It depends on your school and on the schools to which you are applying. </p>
<p>Lots of students ask ‘Is it better to get a B in an AP class or an A in a regular class.’ The Stanford rep replied, “It’s better to get an A in your AP classes.”
That’s the selective school’s answer - but it’s also a non-answer. </p>
<p>Does a B rule you out of any school? Of course not. One grade doesn’t determine anything at any school.</p>
<p>Second point: Your guidance counselor has to evaluate your transcript in their recommendation - they have to check a box that says “most rigorous” or some lesser degree of rigor. If you want the “most rigorous” box checked because you are applying to selective schools, then you should go talk to the GC. Only he or she can tell you, in the context of your school, whether dropping to a non AP class will impact whether you get “most rigorous” or not checked off. In some schools, the drop will matter, in others it won’t. If changing classes won’t impact the ‘rigor rating,’ then the next question is how important that A vs. B is - that’s a question that has implications for your class rank (will you drop below some ‘line’ like top 10% or top 50% as a result?) or is this just one B in a long string of As (in which case, no one cares.)</p>
<p>So, finally, the answer is that only you can make that call based on your own situation.</p>