<p>OLDFORT has certainly brightened this thread with his screenname. :-)</p>
<p>Y7bbb6, lead the way! Break through to the top 25 in the name of all bright students with C's. Godspeed!</p>
<p>No it isn't over. But you gotta work on it ;P</p>
<p>y7bbb6- Make sure to post where you get in next year...I'd love to see you what college you go to, and good luck spideygirl</p>
<p>well the best advice i can give u is dont get anymore! you did not get urself to a good start but the good news is that if u can show significant imrovement junior year, colleges love an upward trend. so aim for straight a's next year and get straight a's next year. also it depends what colleges ur applying to....i mean ur probably out of the running for the top 20 now.</p>
<p>i got 2 c's my junior year in ap chem..but got into ucla and berkley</p>
<p>y7bbb6 - I would like to know which top 25 school you are so centain to get into. </p>
<p>My daughter thinks there is a conspiracy among boys - they all got together and decided to just get Bs, it would give them more time to hang out, and colleges need to admit them no matter what.</p>
<p>I bet you can still end up with a 3.7-3.8 if you get straight A's for the rest of your HS career.</p>
<p>oldfort - well it's not like my gpa is THAT bad...i've managed to pull up my gpa a lot since first semester this year, and i'll probably end up with a 3.4-3.5 average for my career.
and hey come on lexington high is killer...or maybe i just suck at school
anyways...the american system really confuses me...everyone does well in school and has trouble testing...i'm just the opposite
...i have problems...
i look on naviance and you see that linear blob on the scattergram...and im all alone in the bottom right corner with no one to keep me company</p>
<p>and when i say top 25 i dont mean like HYPS, i dont have a chance at those
but i mean the decent ones</p>
<p>y7bb6-
Re: the advantage of guys over girls in the college process-- I was speaking specifically to the poster's interest in Ga Tech, which is about 80% male and clamoring for females. However, I mixed up two posters (spideygirl and polop03). It is polopo3 who is interested in Tech, not spideygirl, and I don't know if polopo3 is a male or female. As for your comment-- yes I know, you are most correct. I thank my lucky stars that I have 2 boys (one already in college and one about to start the 12th grade) as being male, this gives them a slight "edge".</p>
<p>Yes, Lexington High school is a killer, Val and Sal have GPA's off the charts, like seriously. Oh well, 2 spots at Harvard taken, hopefully there will be more.</p>
<p>The grading is fairly harsh, at least enough to rule out rampant grade inflation. Maybe if you played less Starcraft, huh Chris?</p>
<p>I think I have 4 Cs, all in the 77-79 range and I got into Emory, but I couldn't go. And most of my grades in my junior/senior year are Bs.</p>
<p>But I took AP tests in the classes I got Cs in to hopefully atleast counter the low grades, in which those I got 4/5s. And I took SAT IIs in the same subjects for the ones I got Cs in.</p>
<p>I would say that your chances to get into those a high tier school hasn't gone down much, but unless you keep high grades you'll lose the chance to win some merit scholarships.</p>
<p>It's so hard to believe that there aren't some brilliant kids out there that top, top schools would want, even with a transcript that showed an "off" semester or two (two or more C's).</p>
<p>spideygirl, I think they have more than enough qualified applicants. That's why it's hard for them to accept students with Cs. There are quite enough that have straight As, straight As with one B, straight As with two Bs that by the time they get to the students with one or two Cs, it's really up to other factors to determine whether they get in or not.</p>
<p>Guys, my friend needs some advice. She is a junior that goes to my school. She has ALL A's for freshman, sophomore, and junior year. But, she has one B+ and is considering hyps. Will that one B+ hurt her?</p>
<p>My Question: What is cumulative gpa? Is that what is sent to colleges on your transcript? Is Cumulative gpa like the average of your freshman, sophomore, junior and senior gpa? What do ivies look at, uw or w gpa?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>^ One B+ will defenitly not hurt her.</p>
<p>Colleges only look at semester grades, right?
My school's calendar is divided into 4 nine weeks, 2 nine weeks count as 1 semester. I got a C in AP Chem for 1 of the nine weeks, but my final semester grades were an A and a B.
So...will they even see the C?</p>
<p>you're screwed, especially if you're applying to schools where nearly every applicant has perfect grades + test scores</p>
<p>I got two c's during my junior year, i still made it to ucla oos</p>
<p>chris if I can go to ucla
you can sure go there too</p>
<p>I think it depends on how your high school report your GPA, if they reported as weighted for AP class you still have a chance, your SAT, your ECs,your course work difficulty, and the fact that the C was in sophomore, ie you have rising trend, whether the Cs were in subject you are not going to major in. But I have to admit, it's an uphill battle, but it still depends on a lot more things like school reputation, letter of commendation. Pay attention to how you fill out your application, etc.. Please do not give up easily, just apply to more schools, you maybe surprise with your college acceptance result. But as of now, nobody can really determine your chance/odd yet without the full picture of yourself, you just have to move forward as best as you can.</p>
<p>Unless you're really hooked: developmental, celebrity, recruited athlete or a super URM, a C will kill you at all the Ivies (maybe not Cornell), MIT, Stanford, Duke.</p>
<p>The only super-elite schools it won't kill you at is Caltech, and that's only if the C is in non-math/science, since they really only care about Math/Science grades.</p>