<p>Realistically, those grades (not necessarily the B+, but the B- more so) will probably disadvantage you relative to other applicants whose mid-year grades are higher.</p>
<p>But the thing is, those *are * your grades. There’s not really anything you can do about it now. And what would a note from your guidance counselor even say? “The reason CookieMonster85 got B’s in two classes this fall is that he earned less than 90% of the points available, but still at least 80% of them.”</p>
<p>And why in the world did you think it was necessary to start a second thread on the same topic, in the very same forum, less than 14 hours after you’d created the first one (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1451729-bad-mid-year-report.html)?%5B/url%5D”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1451729-bad-mid-year-report.html)?</a></p>