<p>is it true that if you get several B`s (esp. in your junior year), you kind of lost your chance to go to stanford, or any of the ivies for that matter?</p>
<p>I think its true, that's why I'm not applying to stanford....hehe</p>
<p>If it's freshman year, I guess they will let it slide.</p>
<p>you havent LOST your chance. But unless you stand out remarkably some other way, youre not gonna get in on an "academic superstar" basis</p>
<p>i highly doubt it
if you go to a competitive high school, then you'll be fine
or if you have an incredibly amazing, outstanding hook to go with in your application
but i dont think your transcript and application will be completely disregarded just because of a lot of b's</p>
<p>dude you guys are so funny, "several B's" takes your chances away from ivies and stanford, it's so ridiculous how these myths get around, you guys have to get lives in terms of realizing that you can get PLENTY of B's and still get into ivies and "stanford", jeez..I would agree that one or two C's could hurt your chances at ivies..yeah..</p>
<p>"If it's freshman year I guess they'll let it slide.." ahahaha..that makes me crack up.</p>
<p>lol seriously i know people with 3.0 GPA but solid test scores, great recommendations and interviews that got into schools like Stanford.</p>
<p>Even 1 C probably wont kill you if you have an excuse and show improvement like a 70 junior year first quarter doesnt look bad if everything else that year is in the 90s were it should be</p>
<p>Though rabid----a 70 is a D in some schools yet a C in others---as a 90 is an A in some schools, a B in others, so would colleges use a universal scale to determine the letter or do they use what ever the school had it set as. Like if two people with pretty much the same course loads,grades, ecs, recs, essays, sats, etc. were to apply but there was only one spot and one school had an 80 as a B and one had it as a C, would that mean the person who went to the school that had it as a B would get in or is it a universal scale they use when they look at the number grades?</p>
<p>They have info on how the schools grade and the competitiveness of the schools, I think that they look at grades in light of those to determine who has the upperhand.</p>
<p>It depends on what class you get the B in. A "B" in multivar calculus is much preferable over an "A" in precalc.</p>
<p>i mean the same class, same % score</p>