<p>I have a SAT of 1450(M: - 750 and V:- 700). I am taking 6 AP's (AP chem., AP physics C, AP cal. BC, AP lit, AP Gov. , AP comp. Sci.,Senior Science Investigation )
and have about 7 EC's going on. It became very hectic for me handle and I got a C+(82.13) in AP literature and C+(80.91) in Senior Science Investigation for the semester. I have A's and B's for everything</p>
<p>I applaid to MIT, Stanford, CMU , UVA and bunch of other Safeties</p>
<p>Are my hopes for MIT and Stanford lost or do I have a chance??</p>
<p>No one knows what an AdCom will see when they see the 2 C+'s or whatever… as long as you application is otherwise strong I would not expect it to hurt <em>too</em> bad, but still try your best to bring it up if need be…</p>
<p>I will certainly work harder from next time
But even if i rise my grade up now will it affect me.
I mean if i get a A in next quarter will it help in any way. They don’t see/ask about my next grade. do they?</p>
<p>It sounds like it’s time to pare down the ECs and make sure you are fully participating in your classes. You do not want to find yourself in a wait list situation next spring with a transcript that fell off dramatically from your previous record.</p>
<p>What might be a good idea is that you contact the admin offices of those schools, (knowing that they’re really prestigious schools, they’ll want mid-year reports,) and ask whether or not when you send your mid-year grades that you can also send along an explanaition regarding your two C grades. It never hurts to try : )</p>
<p>but my mid-year grade report is the semester grade(2 quarters out of 4 quarters)
and it goes through my counselor too
I am applying for comp. engineering. major
does they consider eng. as a major issue.???
I already have 3 A’s for other three years though</p>
<p>I got my first C this past quarter as well. It was in AP English (which I believe is the same thing as AP Lit?). </p>
<p>Anyway, it probably won’t help but I think it will hurt most at MIT and Stanford. Applicants that have straight As in the most rigorous classes get rejected from there, so yeah. I’m not trying to sound discouraging…just saying.</p>
<p>If your school sends a profile it will be clear that only 95 and up earn A’s – which seems pretty narrow. Also, perhaps your counselor can address it in your midyear update in some way. If it is a blip, that’s one thing. If it is a symptom of slippage all over the place, well that’s another story.</p>
<p>I don’t think 95 is all the teachers grading scale. Do you mean 95 and up is how they present your transcript/ GPA… say ours is on a 4.0 scale but your school does GPA scale by percentage?</p>
<p>u got a 700 in CR, so presumably, you know how to read literature critically. so screw that C+ in AP Lit! colleges would interpret it as a fluke. i mean, grading is so subjective these days, an A in one english class could be a C in another!</p>