Midyear report weight?

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<p>How important are these in regular decision? I have one B on my transcript so far, and it's looking like I'm going to end up with a B for the semester in AP French. (Still waiting for my exam score though!)</p>

<p>I realize that one more B on an overall excellent transcript is not going to screw me over completely. But when Harvard admissions officers are comparing my pretty good transcript with 20 other perfect ones, it certainly won't help me.</p>

<p>Ugh, but I really don't know if I should be stressing over this. Does anyone else have any insight?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure the midyear report is only to weed out people who are either:

  1. Taking an easy courseload and slacking off
  2. Taking a hard courseload and slacking off</p>

<p>If you have one B, it won’t kill you. But if all of your grades begin to slump…I’d worry.</p>

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<p>Midyear reports can also be used for admissions officers to recognize that a student who has shown an upward trend, continues that upward trend (please say they do this lol).</p>

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<p>Seconded on both accounts. :)</p>

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<p>NO!</p>

<p>this yea, i have 3 As, 1 B+, and 1 B.</p>

<p>Last year…3 As, 2 A+s</p>

<p>:( :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :(</p>

<p>HELP?! i’m taking combined BC Calc and Mic/Mac this year, both of which I suck at. :(</p>

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<p>I heard that +s and -s don’t count in college admissions. So a B+ is a B and an A- is an A. Urban myth??</p>

<p>To the OP don’t sweat it, even if your grades went down a little ( OHHH NOOO one extra B!!!) Harvard won’t automatically deny you.</p>

<p>and “2) Taking a hard courseload and slacking off” wouldn’t taking a harder class load also possibly lead to lower grades? not always but its hard getting As in all 7 APs ( depending on your high school)</p>

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<p>Motion12345…from your lips to God’s ears. We’re hoping for this in our house. My D is back to a 3.9 (4.9 weighted) and we REALLY hope they see that she had only one bad semester which really pulled her GPA down to where it doesn’t match her SAT/ACT scores. But…probably not because others went through “stuff” and didn’t have their grades drop because of it. We’re still crossing fingers, just in case. Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>The plus and minus distinctions are present to demonstrate the degree to which a student is performing within the given letter grade. These truly do matter and at most high schools, these directly affect numerical GPA.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure where but I read somewhere that they considered the first term the best indicator of how a person will do in college and whether or not he/she can handle the load.</p>

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<p>I wonder if one gets straight A’s + one C in a class not related to one’s major whatsoever in junior year + first term of senior year, but has five B’s in freshmen/sophomore year then one has shown that one can in fact handle the workload (given a 2100+ SAT score as well).</p>