<p>I know that college encourage people to take AP classes, but what happen if we get a bad grade in those classes. For example, a C in AP calculus. Is that understandable? Would it affect the admission factor greatly?</p>
<p>I guess if you passed the exam then it's fine.</p>
<p>Depends where you want to go. MIT specifically states (someone asked them at an info session), that a C in ap calc would kill an app outright. At reasonable state schools, though, the grade is more important than the exam, although the exam score does help. </p>
<p>Personally, my QPA fell from a 4.2 to a 3.5 junior year as a result of 5 ap classes. On an interview, the lady asked me what the hell happened, and I said "I'm more interested in learning the information than padding my grade. That's why I got four fives and a four on the APs." I got a full ride to the University of Pittsburgh - but I probably would have gotten into Brown if my grades hadn't fallen. In any case, i would recomment taking the AP in any case - you get into college by being passionate at what you do, not by trying to rig the system to let you get into your college.</p>
<p>AP Micro: B</p>
<p>AP Art Hist: A
AP Psych: C
AP Bio: C
AP Eng Lang: C
AP US Hist: A</p>
<p>I will have 8 Ap's this coming year. WOuld I need to make straight A's in ALL OF THEM!??!?! Just to balance it out. My Cumulative GPA is a 4.08. And the latter AP classes were from my junior year and my junior year GPA was a 4.3 even with those C's. But I still knwo that C's aren't good. But does the GPA count more? Or the grades?</p>
<p>^hmm... i've heard a lot of schools using the unweighted gpa system. in that case, it would hurt you.</p>
<p>I'm thinking they would put into consideration the rigor of the school's courses. Not all A's are created equal. If you could get a counselor to write of how much more challenging the course is there compared to other schools and how it would be a B elsewhere and blah blah blah blah, it could help to counterbalance that, I would hope.</p>