<p>Hi, Im a senior applying to Carnegie Mellon Early Decision and I received an email to send in my first term senior grades when my other friends in different schools who applied Early Decision did not receive an email like me. What does this mean in terms of acceptance. Is it a good thing or bad thing? My first term grades were an A in AP Calc BC, an A in AP Comp Sci, and B's for AP Stat, Honors English, and a B- in AP Bio. Will this ruin my chances?</p>
<p>You have nothing to worry about. Best of luck.</p>
<p>In all likelihood, your friends’ counselor already sent their 1st term grades and yours hasn’t. You need to make sure your counselor sends that.</p>
<p>If you got a B in AP Statistics, that’s just flat out sad. I’d reconsider your options, yet once again, if you happen to be Native American, you are definitely FINE.</p>
<p>3 Bs does reflect a downward trend (assuming you’re one of those straight A trenders that CC is prone to attracting) which could detract from your application,
as lichen said, unless you’re native american no one on CC can predict anything for you</p>
<p>Best of luck</p>
<p>In some cases that request means that they are seriously considering you as a candidate for admission during that early cycle. For certain LACS they ask for first term grades from candidates they are going to admit early, and this becomes a good admissions predictor. I don’t know about CMU. However, if they did not request first quarter grades from every CMU ED applicant it definitely means you are still being considered, and they will look at those grades during the decision making process. Depending on what your grades have been in the past, your current grades don’t look particularly competitive …but you’ll never know until the decision come out so no sense stressing, just work to bring those grades up for your mid year grade reports!</p>
<p>Have you heard anything?</p>