Hello,
For those of you who have not read my former thread on chances in general, I currently have a 4.0 unweighted GPA from a large public northwest school (school does not weight, I have taken 9 AP classes and 10 AP tests, and took a six college class course-load this year (same as last year, but this time I took the hardest college classes offered, while before I had some softer ones like Computer Science and APUSH).
Unfortunately, it looks as though I stand to incur two A-'s and a B+ this semester (possibly 1 A- and 2 B+'s, but I doubt it). Normally I would be unconcerned, except for the 4.0 earlier which may lead them to believe (falsely) that I am experiencing senioritis.
Do you think this will affect my odds of getting into MIT, Duke, Harvard, Stanford?
Also, one of my teachers sent his rec today. is this going to be too late for consideration?
While I don’t think your mid-year report will help you in your chances of getting in, I also don’t think it will hurt you either. You’re taking the hardest courses possible, so it’s understandable that your grades might dip a little. Plus, you’re applying to colleges and for scholarships, which takes a large chunk of time out of your days as well. I think that a large amount of seniors experience a small dip in GPA fall semester (I know I did), so it shouldn’t be too big of a deal.
Regarding the rec, you should check with each college to make sure that they’ll take it. I think it’s likely they will; in one of my applications, my teacher took about 2 weeks after the deadline to turn in her recommendation, and the organization said they’d take it.
alright, thank you.
Unfortunately, I set it up on common app well before deadline, but was told after Christmas break (Jan 7th), that he did paper only :/. They made it clear that they took “late” recs, but 12 days may be pushing it. Thank you for the response.
Anyone else have any input or chances @ http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17949005#Comment_17949005
I can’t imagine it having a large impact, if any at all. Yes, going from a 4.0 to having a B+ and A-'s isn’t great, but honestly I don’t think it will affect your decision at any college.
thank you for your response. I hope it doesn’t as well (unfortunately, they may not know the senior classes are harder than junior), because both years all are AP or college classes. Is it universal that computer science is easier than government, that AP Physics is easier than AP Bio, or that AP Lit is easier than Advanced College Writing from a state flagship?
If so, they may be understanding. If not, Im concerned they’ll see it as senioritis.