<p>Hey guys I am a senior and I just wanted to know how much of an effect these mid year grades would have.</p>
<p>I have a 4.52 gpa weighted but I have gotten 4 B+'s throughout my hs career. I took only 3 honor classes freshman year, all honors since sophomore year (the transition was tough hence I got 3 B+'s in these years). I am currently ranked 10th out of ~275 students. For my senior year these are my courses and mid year grades:
AP Bio -A
AP Calc-B+
AP Lit-B+
AP Jap-A-
Accounting Honors-A</p>
<p>I realize these aren't terrible grades but not spectacular either. I'm confident in my recs and ec's but my gpa has always been my lacking part of my application. Can anyone tell me if these grades will worsen my chances for schools like cornell jhu or northwestern?</p>
<p>It’s fine. Especially since they’re both AP’s. Lit is notoriously hard, or at least at my school. Is that AB or BC?</p>
<p>It is AB. I was heading towards a low A or A- but midterm turned out to be impossible…</p>
<p>Most high-end schools are accepting the bulk of the class prior to mid-year grades being available. If it meant that much to them, they would not be able to process any applicants. You certainly cannot tank your scores versus what you received up to the end of the HS junior year as some will stress that your scores must be viable to maintain acceptance status. No one is pulling acceptance status at a high-end school due to near A level grades, even if you are an A+ throughout pre-senior year. </p>
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<p>I don’t think that this is necessarily true. Most “high-end” schools are not admitting more than half of their classes through EA or an ED round that precludes review of first semester senior year grades, and most of those schools require that pending applicants provide mid-year grades, when applicable.</p>