<p>I'm a junior in accelerated Calculus AB. I'm otherwise a straight-A student, but can't seem to manage more than a B in this class. I'm not expecting anything higher for the semester. How much does this hurt my transcript for college, especially if I'm looking into top universities such as NU, Stanford...?</p>
<p>Also, our class is a little different from the actual AP. There's a chance I could still achieve a 5 on the AP itself (I have the book for self-study).</p>
<p>I heard that if one gets a B in this class an A-student's GPA can remain a 4.0. Is that true?</p>
<p>Because I feel bad reading this post, they are being sarcastic. One B will not hurt your chances at all, especially since it's in an AP Class.</p>
<p>As for 4.0 it depends whether your school "weights" your GPA. Like in my school an A in a normal class is a 4.0, an honors class is a 4.5 and an AP class is a 5. So a B in an AP class is a 4.0 and all these numbers are averaged out with all your classes.
However, must colleges calculate your GPA on their own "unweighted", counting Bs as a 3.0 and As as a 4.0.</p>
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Woah, woah, hold up right there aigiqinf got a B?!?!? *** apocalypse! run, and hide under rocks everyone! jk</p>
<p>It's alrite dude, don't lose sleep over it!
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<p>LOL Thanks... wait until you see my terrible SAT scores. I would say looks like community college for me, but seeing as I'm already taking classes there...</p>
<p>The amazing thing is that when I take the average score (for each assignment) for the class (it's in our grade book) I end up that the average class grade is a 70 (C) for every class. I think the instructor works it out like that.</p>
<p>Um, you forgot your calculator, you're forgiven...don't stress about it :D
Wow seems like there are some harsh grading curves going around...just stay strong, everything will work out correctly in the end!</p>
<p>Um....97% of my Calculus class, with three AIME qualifiers w/ an average of 8.3 on AIME and an USAMO qualifier. I doubt that you have taken a real Calculus class without grade inflation if you are seriously saying that....</p>
<p>On AB calc? First of all, why would a AIME qualifier be in AB calc... Second of all, while college calculus courses can definitely be insane, nothing on the AP curriculum for AB really requires anything more than memorizing some basic strategies and applying them. </p>
<p>A 'B is perfectly reasonable in AB calc for non mathy people, but your class is obviously not even close to the norm for a AP calc AB or BC class if 97% is getting below an A. That seems like grade deflation to me.</p>
<p>It's a BC class with multivariable and our teacher is amazing (frankly, in my perspective he seems better than most college professors)...the pass rate on the AP exam has been 100% for the past 10 or so years, and about 90-95% of the students get 5's...some AP classes at my school are insane...for instance, no one has ever received an A in our AP Phyiscs BC class ...And sorry, only 1 person has an A in our Calc class, there are 2 A-, which puts us at about 93% of the class has below 90%...(~97% of the class has below 93)</p>
<p>For instance, on a non-calculator unit exam today, one of our free response questions had a part asking us to integrate (sinx)^8
Nonetheless, it's a great class, and I love it =)</p>
<p>"For instance, on a non-calculator unit exam today, one of our free response questions had a part asking us to integrate (sinx)^8
Nonetheless, it's a great class, and I love it =)"</p>
<p>Yeah. That would never happen in any calculus class I've heard of or on the AP exam. Grade deflation.</p>
<p>"It's a BC class with multivariable and our teacher is amazing." Ahh. I see. I do think those are the best types of classes, that are really difficult because they go beyond and deeper than the AP curriculum, but interesting precisely because of that fact. </p>
<p>I thought you were saying that 3% had A's in a standard AB class.</p>