Freaking out - Can I still get into top colleges?

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Ok so I have just started junior year and I am doing horribly compared to freshman and sophomore year. I am a straight A student, but for some reason I am struggling so much and I have 3 B’s! Even though 2 of them are in AP/Honors classes and the other in an Accel class, I am freaking out. I know I can bring up at least one of them to an A, but I’m just really worried. Do you think having 3 or 4 B’a all together looks bad on a transcript and will ruin my chances to go to my dream schools - Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech? Other than these B’s, I’m pretty much the “ideal” student in the top 4% of 1000 students with a ton of extracurriculars and blah blah blah…

By the way, the B’s are in Honors Pre-Calc, US History Accel, and English AP. I’m almost positive I can raise my grade to an A in either Pre-Calc and/or English, I’m not too sure about US History.

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I wouldn’t freak too much. Colleges look at the difficulty of your courses more than your GPA. A ‘B’ for an AP class is great (especially for AP US, I know how it is). I’m a straight A student myself looking to get into a good school, and I just have to keep reminding myself that a B is not the end of the world. Since you are strong in other areas as well, you should be fine.