<p>I was wondering what effect having a C on your transcript has on admission. For instance, is a C+ signifigantly worse than a B-? This year there is an extremely good chance that I have straight As except for my AP English class which I could end up with a C in (the teacher and I have never really "clicked"). How is that viewed and do you have the opportunity to explain it to colleges?</p>
<p>Yes, of course there is a difference between a "C+" and a "B-," but don't stress about it. I wouldn't try to explain it to colleges... Not "clicking" with the teacher is just not a viable excuse.</p>
<p>I had a C+ in Spanish and so far got into UCLA and Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>There you go, no need to stress.</p>
<p>Look, nobody is perfect, but you need to learn to make your weakness in English into a strength. I have two C+ classes. Comp Sci AP in 10th grade and English IB HL this year. Comp Sci, I explained, was taught by someone who literally did not know java and often made it more confusing, but I made it a good example by explaining how I organized a study group and managed to learn half the course in 1 month and pull a 4 on the AP test with 3's for the other people. For English, I talked about how I've simply never excelled in English, but that I try my damned best, and I backed it up with a strong upward grade trend (70, 77, 84). </p>
<p>Grades matter only so much, and nobody is perfect and every college understands that. </p>
<p>P.S: It got me accepted to every university I applied to so far: MIT, Rice, Cornell.</p>
<p>are you sure it was the letter and not the race card?</p>
<p>i got a c in precalc and was accepted to upenn early decision. you don't have to "explain yourself" really - if you just start making excuses it'll look bad. make it clear that you've learned from your mistakes and you've matured enough to be a good student in college and you should be fine. grades aren't everything - overall gpa and class rank are MUCH more important and essays/personal characteristics/ecs are the true deciding factors. granted, i made it clear that i have NO interest in a major related to math (poli sci). maybe i just got lucky. i'm a white female though and it's not like i'm a legacy or something.</p>
<p>On my transcript, there are 5 Cs (two of which are C- ).
So far, I have been accepted into:
Williams College
Lehigh University
University of Connecticut</p>
<p>omg YOU GOT INTO WILLIAMS??? that is awesome. um my friend had a C (or maybe C+?) on 2nd quarter of her senior grades and she got into mcgill. </p>
<p>I know another girl who got a C+ 1 quarter junior year in an honors math class (she got a B, overall, though...) but she got into harvard. I used to think a B basically eliminated you from harvard/yale, but that's just not true.</p>
<p>"are you sure it was the letter and not the race card?"</p>
<p>Yes because my MIT interviewer told me specifically: "Personal character matters just as much, if not moreso, than grades. Increasing one's grade in a class from C to A is just as powerful as having straight A's."</p>
<p>Also, my highschool valedictorian with the same SAT as me (who is also hispanic) was rejected.</p>
<p>Simply put, race card does not matter that much, although many claim it does. If one is not qualified, one will not get in, but your idea of qualified and the college's idea differ, therefore it seems as if race plays an important role.</p>
<p>wow, that was kind of a rude question, in my opinion. It's kinda like saying, "hey, are you sure you're not stupid and didn't get into college just because of your race?"</p>
<p>I think MIT knows what it's doing, and I think they're tired of having college full of really lame mathy nerds. </p>
<p>All the kids I know who've been accepted to MIT have that "hip/coolness" factor that is so obvious in an interview or essay, and the really nerdy ones with all A's and 800's didn't get in. Hm.</p>
<p>Yea, I consider myself semi-cool =) and my essays kinda showed it. (I talked about Mutant Ninja Turtules, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Rouroni Kenshin, M.C. Escher, etc) </p>
<p>The 15 year old valedictorian from my school was rejected though... he wrote his essays on how he built a rocket. (He is the stereotypical math nerd who sleeps/breathes/eats math.)</p>
<p>haha yeah, I can imagine the MIT admissions people reading through the essays, </p>
<p>"Uh, yeah.... another kid who builds rockets, science team president, research projects <em>yawn</em>... someone who found a new element... yeah, yeah... OH, shweeet, here's one about monty python and the nija turtles!!!" that's how you wake 'em up.</p>
<p>Also my interviewer gave me a good rec. Sure we talked alot and had fun (he was a boxer and I practice martial arts), but apparently he stole oranges from my orchard =D.</p>
<p>i got a C+ in honors chemistry and got into carnegie mellon, lehigh, and pitt honors so far - i'm still waiting on tufts, cornell, nyu stern, and bucknell - no worries, i didn't explain it, partially because i had nothing to say...i just didn't do the work</p>
<p>one or two C's isn't so bad....
Face it...no one's perfect!!!
This won't get u rejected...relax!</p>