How colleges calculate your GPAs.

Applying to College
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<p>Hello, I'm currently a sophomore in high school. During this year, I had 6 A+s and an A, but in the last two months, I let two of those classes drop from an A+ to an A. Initially I thought that this wouldn't matter as colleges count As and A+s the same, but I figured out that I am mistaken and in fact they count A+s more than As. I was hoping to get advice from somebody in an Ivy League school as to how much the difference in A+s and As makes. I'm thinking of MIT as my dream school and my science and math grades are still A+s. It's just my history and latin grade that has dropped. Also, in these last two months when I was letting my grades slip a little, I did a list of things that I wanted advice on if whether they're noteworthy at all:
- I started a company
- I got an interview on my local TV station</p>

<h2>- I gave a TED talk that got featured on the site</h2>

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<p>I’m sorry that the list didn’t finish

  • I got accepted to a research opportunity to a lab in NE university
  • Did some online MIT courses (calculus single variable and multivariable. Physics Mechanics, Psychology)
  • Started a blog which has some followers now</p>
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<p>In terms of being admitted to an Ivy League school – don’t sweat it. Hundreds of students, like mine, are admitted to HYPSM with lots of A-'s and A’s. Some are even admitted with a smattering of B’s and B+'s. You’re doing great . . . keep it up!</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot! I was worried that I screwed up this year by losing the higher grades.</p>

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<p>A lot of schools don’t issue A+s, or don’t factor them into GPAs. They may look at it and say, “Ooh, look he got some A+s. That’s nice.” But I don’t think not getting straight A+s is going to hurt you. When you get to that point with grades, your activities are more important than the minute differences.</p>