<p>Upon finishing finals I have found out that I will be receiving a 92 for the year (a B+, 93 is an A in my school) in my AP Calculus class. I have had straight A's for the past three quarters and it seems like it will be that way except for my AP calculus grade, which would give me a 4.07 weighted, 3.93 unweighted for my junior year. I have a 34 ACT, and almost 300 service hours at my local zoo, am the founder of my school's robotics team, and I have just been elected as the state president of the state association of student councils, and those are just my main standouts on my resume. Before now, my college list has been Purdue, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Stanford, and UPenn. My parents are trying to convince me that a 3.93 shuts multiple doors for my future, but I don't believe so. Will my unweighted GPA ruin my chances at NW, S, and Penn, or do I still have a good chance?</p>
<p>Unfortunately not! It’s just that I am the last child in my family to go through high school and my parents are under the notion that unless everything is perfect, I won’t get into an Ivy League or a school like Stanford.</p>
<p>Can’t tell if srs</p>
<p>If everything IS perfect, you still may not get into an Ivy. Just too many others like yourself applying. You may get into an Ivy - your chance is as good as anyone’s - but your future opportunities will be just fine at any of the other excellent schools that don’t happen to be in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>so, as i’m hearing the “is this a joke” and the “are you serious,” I’m assuming that I have absolutely nothing to worry about?</p>
<p>I have a sort of distorted view of what the typical Ivy Leaguer or Stanford-bound high schooler is due to the expectations of my parents</p>
<p>Not that I HAVE to get into an Ivy league, I want to go for engineering and from what I have looked seen in UPenn, I would really like to have the opportunity to go there, along with Stanford and Northwestern.</p>
<p>To put things in perspective, the average weighted GPA accepted to Harvard from my high school in the past 6 years is a 4.3, which is close to an A- in a weighted (honors or AP) class. Although only 4 kids have been accepted in the past 6 years and I go to a pretty good public school, the kids who are going to Harvard have definitely not gotten all As, and probably had a few B+s too.</p>
<p>OP you didn’t have to include all that extra information about your ACT score and other school activities. I’m personally tired of these threads, but your ONLY A JUNIOR. A 3.93 is really good. I probably say this a lot, but many students will do anything for your GPA. A B won’t kill ALL your chances. Also, lower some of your standards, I remember when I was in 8th or 9th grade I wanted to go to the best schools and be on top. But I realized that it was harder than I thought so I started to set realistic goals that I could reach weekly, monthly and yearly. There are other schools than the most expensive and elite. UMBC in Maryland (WOOT!) has the same undergraduate curriculum as Yale. The president of UMBC was name one of the most influential leaders in the nation and in the world. The tuition is like 15,000-17,000 when Yale is like 60,000+. This showed me that their are other schools that have MANY opportunities and programs and they can be in your backyard.</p>
<p>only on cc…
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<p>You can say that again Weeknd</p>
<p>What a waste of forum space, lol.</p>
<p>I was about to answer, no my door is open.</p>
<p>Listen to FantasyVesperia’s advice</p>
<p>If someone doesn’t have the critical thinking skills to figure out that one B doesn’t close the door to a top school, I don’t know how they expect to get through the curriculum in college.</p>
<p>“If I don’t get into an Ivy, I am a worthless human being”</p>
<p>This mentality on this forum needs to go away.</p>
<p>well…4.07 weighted is not even close compared to what you need for Upenn. I mean your unweighted is pretty high but weighted is pretty low…Upenn needs around 4.85+…Assuming that academic classes count as 4s, honors count as 5s, and Ap count as 6’s.</p>
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<p>Hahaha, you must be kidding. The average weighted GPA of accepted students at Penn at my school is a 4.02. Come at me, bro.</p>
<p>1017bricksquad, that’s a pretty unusual weighting system. Most schools don’t give 6 for APs. And you really can’t compare curriculums like that. Some schools simply offer more weighted classes. Some schools are more difficult. A GPA really is meaningless without a class rank.</p>
<p>Yes the door is shut, there is a chair in front of it, and there is a fat guy sitting in said chair. Your chances at any acceptable university are non-existant. How dare you even plan to apply to college with a B+. #ThingsCCersSay</p>
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<p>Finally someone says it. Thank you!</p>
<p>I was about to start researching the average GPAs of those schools to reply to this thread, and then once I had CollegeBoard’s website I realized this question was too ridiculous for a well-researched reply.</p>
<p>You guys are taking this thread too seriously. The OP is poking fun at the way kids on this site obsess over minor flaws in grades, test scores, etc. He was just joking, he wasn’t being serious. =p</p>