How do you accept getting your first B...and mediocrity?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>I'm getting my first B this semester in AP US History.
It's kind of sad because I'm not really talented at anything. I don't have a bunch of awards or extracurriculars to back me up. I never thought about doing anything like that before I came to this website. I just did things in high school because it was fun. </p>

<p>I'm one step behind everyone else now. I'll never be able to catch up, because there's no way I can get talented enough in something in one year to earn awards in it. There's so many clubs I could have joined but I didn't.
I didn't do that much volunteer hours. I guess I'm kind of screwed for college applications.</p>

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<p>what would you like to hear?</p>

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<p>You’re not Screwed lmao. If you didn’t want to do any EC then good.
Of course if you’re looking at Ivies then yes that is gonna be difficult to even try to get in. But many schools won’t hold it against you if you don’t do EC or whatever.</p>

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<p>Ummm…that sucks?</p>

<p>Get over it and move on. 1 B won’t kill you.</p>

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<p>For real, Bs are fine. Not great, but not a big deal in AP classes. I’ll graduate with like 6 and I’m fine with it. Same for college, I want mostly As and Bs, wouldn’t be suprised if my first semester is hard though and a C pops out.</p>

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<p>You probably won’t get accepted to a school.</p>

<p>Colleges don’t like B’s</p>

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<p>I was less than 1% short on an A when I got my first B. But really, don`t get so discouraged by it. It’s not much of a deciding factor, really.</p>

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<p>I’m getting at least one b this semester, and I’m sad about it but moving on.</p>

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<p>You are not screwed for college appllications…you can still fill them out.</p>

<p>I notice that you are supersmartguy1. I guess you were late on that as well. Maybe if you were The ‘supersmartguy’ things could be different.</p>

<p>Seriously though, don’t sweat it.</p>

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<p>I got my first B in 3rd grade math. I’ve gotten like 12 B’s since 3rd grade (yes, most were in elementary and middle school) and 3 C’s, and that doesn’t mean I’m dumb or won’t go to a good school. </p>

<p>Deal with it.</p>

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<p>I am not exactly sure if a B will doom you. Unlike CC, very very very few people got perfect 4.0s through their entire high school career, and many of them get into very good schools.</p>

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<li> Guess you will have to change your username.</li>
<li> Guess you will have to join the human race, as 99.99999% of them get a grade or score that is not perfect at some point.</li>
<li> Guess you will have to stop posting silly questions on CC. This is a “■■■■■” type question (OP dramatically throws hand to forhead, and leans back with eyes closed – “Is my life – is it – OVER?”). It is ONE B, for crying out loud. My kid got into U of Chicago this year with EIGHT of them on her transcript (count 'em, eight) and NO leadership in her ECs. And no hook except her genuine self in her essays and recommendations.</li>
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<p>I think you titled this thread wrong because now everyone’s going to yell at you for complaining about a B instead of seeing the greater point about being a mediocre person.
Because I feel that way a lot. I don’t win awards, I don’t get voted into leadership positions, I don’t invent things. I decided not to do the science fair this year because I’m too dull to even be able to think of a project idea despite hours of looking around on the Internet.
I watch accomplished people on TV and in real life and I think to myself that I don’t even have any conception of what it would be like to do those kinds of things. I don’t have great ideas or win awards or have people talk about me.
I can’t imagine how I’ll ever get a job because it seems like, if there’s a competition, people find a way to not pick me. </p>

<p>/end rant </p>

<p>BUT STILL: Most people are mediocre/average. There’s nothing wrong with it.</p>

<p>“I got my first B in 3rd grade math”</p>

<p>You got letter grades in elementary school?
I miss elementary school. Where I live we got an “S” for satisfactory or an “N” for needs improvement. I always got Ns in gym.</p>

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<p>^^I’m not OP but I am glad to hear that about your daughter. I was getting worried about my freshman grades.</p>

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<p>^^That’s the main thing I’m concerned about.
I am not exceptional in any way. Everyone else seems to be.
How am I going to be able to get scholarships if I can’t even do this?</p>

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<p>halcyon: that was good.</p>

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<p>^
Thanks!</p>

<p>“How am I going to be able to get scholarships if I can’t even do this?”</p>

<p>Most of the merit money you get will be from your college, assuming they give merit money. And some will just give you money based on your test scores/GPA and don’t require you to be some kind of spectacular genius.
Or you’ll get grants, or need-based aid, which are not based on merit.
There are also random-drawing scholarships. Which is almost as difficult as winning the lottery, but it doesn’t hurt to apply.</p>

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<p>Yeah, except F’s weren’t F’s, they were called “N” for “needs improvement”. But yeah, good ole A, B, C, D. Guess they wanted to reinforce the alphabet so we wouldn’t forget. </p>

<p>I thought it was the end of the world at the time but looking back it was really stupid I cared about a grade in elementary school. Heck, now I’m satisfied with a B in math anytime.</p>

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<p>One B does not spell out the end of the world, especially if it’s in an AP class. My advice? Get off CC for a week, month, however long you need to to regain some self-confidence. Because judging from your posts, you desperately need some right now.</p>

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<p>You’re just down, man.
Come back in a semester and you’ll realise how petty this B is.</p>

<p>If you’re the super smart guy you think you are, then you’ll figure it out.</p>

<p>How do you accept the fact? To be really philosophical about this, just look within yourself.</p>