<p>I would really like to get accepted into Harvard, but I feel that my B. Is it possible to get accepted into an ivy league, or other prestigious school with one B?</p>
<p>Yes; it’s also possible to get rejected with a 4.0/2400. There is a lot more that goes into your application than just your grades.</p>
<p>See: <a href=“The Harvard Crimson | Class of 2018 By the Numbers”>http://features.thecrimson.com/2014/freshman-survey/admissions/</a>
I personally like the scattergram in the 2018 Freshman Survey, as it visually combines GPA and SAT scores. However, notice
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<p>“a perfect 4.0 or above”</p>
<p>How?</p>
<p>^ Some schools calculate A+ as 4.3.</p>
<p>Thanks for that scattergram, gibby. You are such a wealth of information. I found the number of schools vs. number of acceptances particularly interesting. To my analysis, it looked like those who applied to more than 15 schools avoided a shut out. i.e. No one ended up with no place to go with above 15 applications. At 15 and below, there were some who had the lowest number on the y axis.</p>
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<p>The sentence seems self-contradictory, however. It says that it’s possible to get a score above perfect.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think that Harvard considers extra weighting for A+ grades, as it both reveals more information about students from those particular schools than is received about others, and places students from schools that don’t reveal grades over 97.5% at a disadvantage. Is it only the Crimson that considers such weighting, then?</p>
<p>Unlike the Crimson, Admissions does not compare one high school (and their grading system) to another, but instead use the high school’s report as a rubric to decipher GPA. For example, here’s Boston Latin’s School Report, which does have an unweighted GPA of 4.3. So all Boston Latin applicants are compared to each other using that scale: <a href=“http://www.bls.org/ourpages/auto/2013/5/24/55204166/2014-15%20BLS%20Profile.pdf”>http://www.bls.org/ourpages/auto/2013/5/24/55204166/2014-15%20BLS%20Profile.pdf</a>. Other applicants are compared to their peers from their high school using the grading system supplied in their high school report.</p>
<p>I’ve always been somewhat curious as to why schools use the 4.3 uWGPA system. It seems to set the curve higher for prospective college applicants from those high schools, and seems to give colleges more information than they need for anyone else.</p>
<p>Isn’t a 92.5%+ average good enough? Making a distinction between 97.49%- and 97.5%+ seems nitpicky.</p>
<p>In this era of grade inflation, I think an A+ can be useful. It’s a way for the top students in a class to raise the ceiling a little and differentiate themselves from the herd of Straight A students. Also, doesn’t it mess up the scale not to go to 4.3? I don’t understand why an 89 would be scored as 0.3 better than an 85, but a 99 and a 95 are scored as the same thing.</p>
<p>Yes you can get in with one B, especially if your overall profile is strong.</p>
<p>@gibby what if my high school rarely have people applying to harvard ( i am from canada), here, every school obeys the percentage range for every letter grade. So 86 above would be an A no matter where you study in the province. Will they just compare me to other people in my province, even though different schools have different inflations？</p>
<p>@boomboom123:I don’t know how Admissions evaluates Canadian applicants, but Admissions Officers who cover international applicants understand each country’s grading system – that’s their job. My guess is that you will be judged against all other students at your school. But, that’s just a guess.</p>
<p>@gibby There is no other students from my school applying to harvard, in the 17 years of the school opening, (the school opened the same year I was born), there has only been 3 harvard acceptance, and we have about 400 kids graduating each year. </p>
<p>They will compare you to other students at your school, whether or not they apply to Harvard, by looking at your school profile.</p>
<p>Beyond that, there is nothing you can do about it at this point (or at any point), so don’t worry about things outside your control.</p>
<p>um, my school does not have rank, but it has 400 people graduating, normal school, 2 harvard, 2 mit, a few ivy since 20 years of school opening, last year the best was 1 berkeley and 1 cornell, my average is 92, highest in grade is 97. what would my rank be approximately given the competitiveness of my school, school does not scale for ap or honors. </p>
<p>the highest in grade refers to the highest this year, not all time highest</p>
<p>and would my percentage average be fine for ivy league schools, or slightly low?</p>
<p>Your rank would be 18th</p>
<p>thanks, is that using the standard deviation thingie? that is actually pretty good top that is 5%</p>