<p>This year (senior year) i have been blessed <em>sarcasm</em> with some of the toughest teachers in the whole school. they rarely give anything over a B+. I'm worried that colleges are going to think that I am slacking during my senior year of high school
do colleges take into consideration that some teachers may be tougher that others?</p>
<p>Not directly. At least not at the level of detail that would allow them to say, “Oh, well, we know that Mr. Stein is a much tougher grader than Mrs. Fitzgerald.” It would require an awfully particular knowledge of each school in a region, don’t you think?</p>
<p>But the good news is that distribution of grades is often part of your school’s profile, which goes to colleges along with your secondary school report. So if you truly do attend a school full of grade deflators, colleges will be able to see that.</p>
<p>what is a distribution of grades?</p>
<p>But what if it’s a class like freshman english and you lucked into that teacher who screws everybody’s grade up, and the others got easy teachers like freshman engilsh should have been? what do you do about that? It’d be complaining if you talked about it, wouldnit it</p>
<p>Ownz: A distribution of grades looks like this:</p>
<p>Here are the grades earned in X course in 2010-2011:
A: 4 students
B: 7 students
C: 7 students
D: 0 students
F: 1 student</p>
<p>Your secondary school report/profile should show grade distributions for several courses, usually AP and upper-level. </p>
<p>It can indicate how easy it is to earn an A in that particular course. Of course, if the course is taught by a different instructor than in the previous year, the distribution won’t have much meaning. </p>
<p>Chicago: Luckily, colleges aren’t going to care that much about freshman year grades. In this case a B will not make or break you.</p>