<p>My EC's, recommendations, and essays are/will be excellent, I'm just super nervous about my GPA unweighted and the couple B's on my transcript. </p>
<p>Assuming I'm competitive in other areas, please tell me my chances and how they're affected as a result of my transcript. (Link to picture below)</p>
<p>Shooting for Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford (etc)</p>
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<p>LOL your grades are fine. You have all A’s except for just a couple B’s here and there. That would be fine even if the B’s were full-year grades, but they all seem to be semester grades. You’re in, academically, as long as your SATs measure up. After that, it’s all about luck.</p>
<p>A couple of B’s won’t help your cause, but neither will it kill your chances entirely. A lot rides on the parts you don’t mention – and “excellent” probably won’t be enough. For HYPSM, your ECs will need to include statewide or better awards, being best in your school won’t be enough unless you have some serious hook. Your LoRs will need to be in the “best of my career” class.</p>
<p>Those 5-10% published acceptance rates belie the real competition: perhaps one-third of the applications to each of these schools are from students who are in the top 1% or top fraction of 1% of the nation. If you’re not from an elite feeder school, you may need to not just be valedictorian (75% or more of vals get rejected), but the smartest kid to attend the school in the last 5-10 years. Yes, the competition is brutal! You should by all means apply to these schools, but do yourself a favor and also apply to a group of schools with a wide range of acceptance rates, up to 35% or so, plus a safety school or two that you’d be happy to attend.</p>
<p>Yeah, B’s will not be the end of you. It surely doesn’t help your chances, and it does some, but not a lot of damage. If you have excellent test scores, fantastic E.C.'s, and great recs, and essays, you still of course have a shot at the Ivies. Plus, it looks like your school doesn’t submit A-'s, only A’s, which would make your unweighted GPA much higher, despite the few B’s.</p>
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<p>Your GPA is fine. Now just make your essays amazing and hope you have good enough ECs</p>