<p>Ok. So I'm a high school senior and I'm a pretty good student. I'm ranked #1 in my high school (weighted) and I got a 35 on my ACT, 2320 on my SAT, 233 on my PSAT, I'm a national merit finalist. I do a lot of volunteering and captaining and leadership stuff. I'm a pretty good writer for my essays and stuff. But I'm an idiot and I took classes at the local University and I took HARD classes like ochem and Calc 4 and other hard ones cause I thought I was really smart and I'd do OK. But I got B+'s and A-'s. Does this ruin my chances of getting into an ivy league?</p>
<p>So you’re saying that B+/A- in college classes while in HS is not “doing ok?”</p>
<p>Come, on. You are really asking a pretty ill-informed question. You’re supposedly an A-student with a 2320. Act like one. </p>
<p>As far as “ivy-league” goes, you’re quallified. Most of them reject >90% of qualified applicants anyway. So no you didn’t “ruin” your chances, but they are not that high in the first place (for you or anybody else).</p>
<p>Do you even care about where/what you want to study or do you just want to go to any school as long as it’s in the ivy-league? Princeton and Cornell could not be more different and about the only thing they have in common is that they play in the same athletic conference.</p>
<p>You’re fine. A B+/A- is not a bad grade. I would make sure you have a handle on why you want to go Ivy, though. You seem awfully focused on grades.</p>
<p>@thinkingtoohard why do you say that?</p>
<p>Agree with @thinkingtoohard, what little bit I know I think that ‘ivy league’ is a whole experience. You obviously have the stats to get in (where are you applying?) And a B+ or A-, I’m not sure what’s wrong with that grade for a high school kid taking a college course. That’s pretty good. This post kinda strikes me as ‘fishing for compliments.’</p>
<p>I don’t blame you since you’re still just in high school but your post shows how little you understand about college applications and evaluating people in general. A half letter drop in one or two courses means absolutely nothing. If I were you, I would worry more about how you’re going to stand out as someone special in a sea of incredibly mature and incredibly unique people.</p>