<p>There is nothing wrong with a B+ and there is also nothing wrong with not getting into a top college.</p>
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<p>Why are you letting other people tell you where you can get in? How would they know? Find some colleges you would like to go to and apply. Hopefully you will have something more to offer them than your gradepoint.</p>
<p>Whoops, haven’t been on CC for a while <em>revives board</em>
Just wanted to give you guys an update of where I am at if any of you are interested.</p>
<p>It turns out, the school really did matter. Whether or not B’s are good truly depend on the school and whether the college will recognize it.</p>
<p>Also, after looking up schools on Naviance, it seems as if SAT has a far greater impact than GPA (at least, for me). For NYU and WUSTL, once kids scored in the 2200+ range, nearly everyone was accepted regardless of GPA (at least, if above 3.0). The spike was astounding.</p>
<p>Right now, I will be trying to maximize my SAT score, since it seems as if I can’t change my GPA too much anymore. Yes, a 3.3 alone probably wouldn’t get me anywhere. This is why I’m going to stop obsessing over the GPA, and start obsessing over the SAT.</p>
<p>(Oh, and if things go at this pace, I should have a 3.4 by the end of the year. A step up from 3.3, yay!)</p>
<p>“Yes, a 3.3 alone probably wouldn’t get me anywhere.”</p>
<p>Just exactly what kind of Kool-Aid have you been drinking? There are something like 4000 colleges and universities in the US. Lots of them would be perfectly happy with a student with a 3.3.</p>
<p>Don’t worry I don’t think a B+ is so bad!! You can get into top schools for sure with B’s, it’s not the end of the world.
I got a C/C+ first semester in AP Chemistry my junior year and then got a B for the second semester and have gotten into a variety of schools, including UCLA and USC. I have mostly had A’s throughout the years but have had B’s too and my GPA’s fine.</p>
<p>well for my school/district they take off all plus and minus off our transcript so we can only get a flat grade in a class. so for us its bad to get a high b since it will be 3.0</p>
<p>Grim Reaper: USC and NYU are definitely NOT out of reach. If you are a straight B+ student, it may be difficult, but it sounds like you have a mix of As and Bs, and that’s fine as long as you fill the other stats (ECs, essays, SATs). I know a bunch of people who got into USC this year, and they had pretty much all had B+s at some point.</p>
<p>B+ aren’t THAT bad. I mean to ivies… yeah. Anything short of an A+ and 2350 is bad for ivies though. PLENTY of GREAT schools are fine with B+s. Relax.</p>
<p>How about if i go to a specialized high school (i had to pass a test) in NYC? My school is very competitive and some students consider A-'s not enough. It’s not that my school is easy, its just that there are really smart people, which is one of the reasons my high school doesn’t rank. My school sends a lot of people to ivies+top schools.</p>
<p>^Your school has an outrageous amount of inflation. If you are currently at the median or below it, I suggest you get comfortable with the idea of attending a CUNY.</p>
<p>I am in the top 25%, maybe even in the top 10%. I’m not sure because my school doesn’t release rankings</p>
<p>So, Colleges don’t care that some high schools are harder than others? </p>
<p>There are so many people that were in another school in 9th grade and they had 100 averages, but when they took the Specialized high school test (offered in 8th and 9th grade) and came to my school, their average dropped by around 10 points.</p>
<p>My high school is always ranked in the top 100 (30 last year and 60 this year) in US world and news report’s “best high schools”</p>
<p>Also, In Stuyvesant high school, another specialized high school, a 93 is not even considered that good because almost every student is intelligent. </p>
<p>Isn’t that kinda unfair to some students?</p>
<p>There is a purpose to guidance counselor recommendations, you know. They provide context for the GPA. “Yeah, this kid got a 3.4, but this is in the top decile at our school because we believe A’s stand for Amazing, not Average.” (I wish that was my school.)</p>
<p>Colleges do care about the rigor of the high school, since (unlike SATs or AP tests, which are standardized) a 3.4 at one school is not a 3.4 everywhere.</p>
<p>“Also, In Stuyvesant high school, another specialized high school, a 93 is not even considered that good because almost every student is intelligent.”</p>
<p>No, a 93 is not even considered that good because at Stuyvesant everyone and his mother gets above a 93.</p>
<p>Whereas it is permissible to be mediocre at a place like Harvard College, at places like the Specialized High Schools the quality of the student body is inconsistent, given the Schools’ peculiar and dubious admission policies.</p>