<p>To preface, I'll say this: I've never received a grade in a class lower than a 96% (3.9 GPA) in my entire school career, including Honors/College Prep/AP courses. Until now.</p>
<p>My school is tiny, and as such, only offers 3 AP courses. I took all three in my Junior year. In my senior year, I wanted to continue to challenge myself academically, so I signed up for 5 AP courses through accredited online schools to do at my own time. These are real courses, with real teachers, and real grades. </p>
<p>I have a 96-99% in four of those classes, but a B+ in one. a 92%, to be exact. </p>
<p>Now, honestly, I know I shouldn't be scared. But I also know that Ivy league schools are no joke; I'm competing with the best in the entire world. Does this B really damage my chances? I'm especially talking about my chances to the "lower" Ivies (ie., not HYP).</p>
<p>No, especially if that B is a 92% B+ in an AP course that might not even appear on your transcript anyway.</p>
<p>@catisforlife it will appear on my transcript. I’m earning credits for these online courses.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.
How badly will 1 B (+) hurt you when placed against over 15 semesters of As and A+s?
Of course you won’t have a 4.0 GPA, but you’ll definitely have somewhere between a 3.9-4.0.
Assuming you get your 800s on your SAT IIs, 5s on a few APs, and 2250+ on SAT Is, you’re definitely in for the running for any Ivy.</p>
<p>BipolarBuddhist basically said it all. Don’t stress it. 
Thy are online courses so the fact you are getting A’s in the first place is pretty awesome. I doubt a single B will damage your chances. Some people with a couple of B’s in their classes still got into an Ivy.</p>
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<p>SAT IIs were all 770+ (US History, Math II). Out of the 3 I’ve already taken, 2 out of 3 APs were 5s. 2250 SAT. </p>
<p>@Goodnyte6 thanks. I kinda felt I was being unreasonable, but hey Ivies aren’t a joke.</p>
<p>OP, what the heck is a “lower Ivy”? There is no such thing as a “lower Ivy” and no one who actually attended an Ivy subscribes to this nonsense. You may well be statistically qualified, but so are tens upon tens of thousands of other applicants. Therefore you’ll be fortunate to get into ANY Ivy. All eight are different; all eight have their strengths. Please don’t buy into the uniformed high school nonsense about “lower Ivies.” FYI: P’s admissions rate is actually higher than that of one you might erroneously term a “lower Ivy.” So…don’t go there.</p>
<p>@swingtime I put it in quotations because obviously, what I deem “lower ivies” is relative to the obviously near-impossible schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. </p>
<p>I am not suggesting that it’s easy to get into Brown or Dartmouth. I’m just saying that it’s more challenging to get into HYP, as far as my understanding goes.</p>