<p>I have quite a few B's on my transcript, and all I see on this site are people with straight A's who fret over 1 B. So, with all honors classes and no free periods will having more than 2 B's destroy your chances at a school like Yale?</p>
<p>Also, in general, what makes a B so bad?</p>
<p>"Also, in general, what makes a B so bad? " Nothing at all. But in the context of competitive admissions such as for Y, they weigh down your GPA. </p>
<p>The most important thing is: are you challenging yourself? Are you taking the toughest courses? Are you mostly excelling in these? </p>
<p>When you say “quite a few Bs” – how many? 10? or 3?</p>
<p>It really depends which courses. If you won intel or something they aren’t going to not accept you because of a few measly B’s. On the other hand, if you don’t have good EC’s or recs than you might be in trouble.</p>
<p>To echo what others have said, see: [What</a> Yale Looks For | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/what-yale-looks-for]What”>What Yale Looks For | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>“Yale is above all an academic institution. This means academic strength is our first consideration in evaluating any candidate. The single most important document in your application is your high school transcript, which tells us a great deal about your academic drive and performance over time. We look for students who have consistently taken a broad range of challenging courses in high school and done well. Your high school teachers can provide extremely helpful information in their evaluations. Not only do they discuss your performance in their particular class or classes, but often they write about such things as your intellectual curiosity, energy, relationships with classmates, and impact on the classroom environment.”</p>
<p>I have around 10 B’s, and I am not ashamed to admit it. I took some of the hardest classes, at my school, and it is known for its rigor and compared to other students I have done pretty well. Also, what really matters to me is that I learn, and leave the class knowing something that I didn’t before, whether it involves the material or how to study and prepare for different types of tests and teachers (and yes I know how cliched that sounds haha).</p>
<p>How many of your fellow students also took the hardest classes and did better than you? 10? 20? 50? 100?</p>