<p>So I just got my first B this semester. There goes my 4.0. I wouldn't really care so much if the B wasn't from Calculus BC. That part has me worried.</p>
<p>How much do you think this will hurt me in admissions?</p>
<p>you cant get in. if you got a 100 they still wouldnt let you in... unless you were curing cancer simultaneously. Jeez, talk about overreacting.</p>
<p>haha, you should flip through some of the earlier threads about "OH **** I GOT A B." ive seen plenty sarcasm on those replies. :P
no i dont think its a big deal. i htink the difference between 4.0 and a 4.9 is infinitesimal at best and i believe MIT knows that, too.</p>
<p>Chill out. Really. I'm sorry to be so abrupt but there is no other appropriate answer to this.</p>
<p>^^^ i meant 3.9. oops</p>
<p>I got a B in the first quarter of calculus AB, heh. On my transcript, only a 93 showed up (that was my average for the year). So I actually wrote a short essay about how after getting that B, I learned how to study more in order to learn material better, got better grades, fell in love with calculus. So yeah, I'm going to be a math major, and I TOLD them about my B. And I got in. So, I would say, definitely don't worry about it. Just, study more and do better next term :-) - if you like math. If not, then.. focus on stuff you do like? But calculus is still important. And awesome. So I would suggest the studying/practicing more approach :-). But to each his/her own. Anyway, good luck! But I doubt it will hurt you to the point of being a dealbreaker.</p>
<p>What jessiehl said.</p>
<p>The level of panic implied by the title of this thread is grossly unnecessary.</p>
<p>Here's a list of my many Bs:</p>
<p>Grade 9:
Biology - B+ in second quarter, B in third.
World Civilization 1 - B+ third quarter, B- in fourth.</p>
<p>Grade 10:
Honors English 2 - B-, B+, B, B+
French 3 - B+, B+, B, B+
Honors World Civilization 2 - B+ in third quarter</p>
<p>Grade 11:
AP Chemistry - B- in first quarter
Honors English 3 - B+ in fourth quarter
Honors French 4 - B+ in second quarter, B- in fourth
Criminology - B+ in first quarter</p>
<p>Grade 12:
Unknown (second quarter grades closed today). Probably a B+ in Honors English 4 in at least the 2nd quarter, and perhaps a B+ in AP US History or Marine Ecology.</p>
<p>And do you know what?</p>
<p>I got in!!!!!!</p>
<p>So chill out. I did way worse than it sounds like you've been doing, and got accepted. So:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stop worrying</li>
<li>Get a majority of As</li>
<li>DO NOT get a C</li>
<li>Have good Extra-curriculars</li>
<li>Apply to MIT.</li>
</ol>
<p>neforrester, congrats on getting in and all but you might be an exception. I'm sure most other people with that many Bs would get rejected. But I don't think one B would do anything.</p>
<p>If you get a B now and you're flipping out, I can't imagine you in college. j/k</p>
<p>well
okay, the school matters. if you go to a good public school that has hard classes, and colleges know this, well then they will look closely at that. but honestly, people like you do NOT know what's important in life. and no, that B is not important and will never be and you will never see it again. please, don't let it bother you (but let it drive you to work harder if you like to be reminded of past "failures" in order to improve...)</p>
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<p>Hahaha nice. :)</p>
<p>I actually thought I was going to get a C first semester for econ, which would be kind of dramatic since my lowest grade thus far has been a B+, and I saw the admissions people going "oh my god her grades are suddenly 20% lower than before why did we let her in" but I pulled an A on the final and got a B+ for the semester. Never been so happy to see one.</p>
<p>Eh, I wonder how much it would have mattered.</p>
<p>But yeah, a single B on your entire high school transcript, negligible.</p>
<p>Knowing MIT, the last thing they want is a student who freaks out over a single B on the transcript. They really value people who can see the big picture and who are not grade-grubbers. These are the sort of people who will respond best to any failures they may encounter in the future.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, what will you do with your first B (or God forbids, C) at MIT?</p>
<p>^^ In defense of the poster, I can understand freaking out about high school Bs, but not about MIT B's, for example. At my school, an A means little in most classes - a boy in my history class got a 91 after handing in practically nothing (or at least handing in everything weeks late) and sleeping through class every day. So, when I got the B I posted about above, especially in the subject that is to be my MAJOR, I freaked out, not just because it was a B, but because it represented that I might not be good at math, that I might not have actually been capable of achieving my goal of succeeding after teaching myself algebra and precalculus, etc. - because at my school, even A's don't always mean much (so Bs mean even less). (Turns out in calculus, they DO, and I was so satisfied after working a lot for my As in the last three terms, but I didn't really know that during first term.) But I used my anxiety for motivation for studying a lot harder, and I learned calculus really well, and fell in love, maybe even more than I had ever expected to. But, I know that if I end up at MIT next year, I might get Bs and Cs. They might sting a little; they probably will at first (though they might not, just depending). But I know that those Bs and Cs will mean more than my As in high school ever did, and on the flip side, if I get any As, the satisfaction will be SO much greater than, say, that which I feel after getting a 99 in my history class (which, by the way, is not much).</p>
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In defense of the poster, I can understand freaking out about high school Bs, but not about MIT B's, for example.
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Agreed. I cried in front of my teacher junior year of high school over a possible A- in English, but I was gleeful to get class average in my classes at MIT. It's all about the context.</p>
<p>"I cried in front of my teacher junior year of high school over a possible A- in English" </p>
<p>whoaa..totally not what i expected =)</p>
<p>Last night I thought of killing myself over my first B+ in chemistry. The damn teacher wouldn’t round up my grade of 89.45%… i said i’ll do anything!! Clean up his classroom, mop the floors, etc… He just said “wait for your report card.” Are you serious?! That’s in 3 weeks! x( So i went to church, and now I feel a little better :/</p>
<p>@tvdn- the same thing happened to me last year, also for chemistry! i went in and begged my teacher to round my grades just a little bit, and she ended up literally chasing me out of her room. about two weeks later when i was on vacation, i checked my grades to find out that she had dropped my lowest quiz grade, which bumped me up to an A </p>
<p>Miracles happen! :)</p>
<p>Seriously? This is pathetic. One B will not matter…especially if it was a borderline A. People need to grow up. Teachers shouldn’t round up grades. Grades are YOUR responsibility, not the teachers…</p>