<p>I'm a freshman at the high school and my goal is to get into Mit. This is obviously going to be hard, but I'm trying.
My question is, I'm in regular biology (we don't have honors) and i have an 89 as my mid term grade. (It may go up to a 91 with a lab I'm doing) Would Mit not accept me just because I got a b+-A- in regular biology.
My other question is, Do colleges (Mit in particular) look at your mid term grades? Do they only look at final grades?(Our high school has 4 quarters and 2 semesters. Would Mit look at first quarter, second, third, and fourth, or would they only look at second quarter and fourth quarter.(semester 1 and 2))</p>
<p>Ummm.... a few things. there's an MIT specific page.</p>
<p>Secondly, you are asking about a grade you got in a midterm in the first term of your freshman year and holding it up against your lifelong goal of attending MIT???</p>
<p>You need to stop worrying about how two points on a Bio midterm will affect your college searching or you'll get an ulcer before the year is out.</p>
<p>No offense but try to relax and don't come back here until you're a junior. You've got to try to ENJOY learning not as a function of your MIT admissions chances. Please.</p>
<p>T26E4 has a point, you shouldn't worry about a single test. I doubt MIT looks at your midterm grades, and even if they do, I doubt they'd care provided you had a great GPA. However, I wouldn't leave CC till your junior year. There's a lot of great advice going around here, and I wish I followed it when I was a freshman. My advice is to take the most advanced courses you can handle (especially those you are passionate about, and you had better be passionate about math and science if you want MIT), volunteer significantly, join several clubs/sports and shoot for leadership in them. Finally, you need to find something you're truly passionate about and pursue it to an almost ridiculous degree. An easy example is math; take Calc III before you gradulate, ace the AMC, and win national recognition. Thankfully, you don't have to be this passionate about math. A simpler example is in computer science. Make a website, do some programming, and try to make a mini software company. This shows leadership and success in addition to your intense passion.</p>
<p>If you can do either of those things, or anything else that reflects your talent in an area where you have a passion, you can probably get into MIT with a [mere... yeah right] unweighted GPA of 4.0</p>
<p>MIT looks at the grades which are reported by your school, so you should see which grades your school prints on your transcript. Generally they ask for (and presumably consider) semester or trimester grades only.</p>
<p>You do not have to have perfect grades to get into MIT, and there is no reason to worry about a single non-A on a midterm. You should, however, make an effort to get the best grades in the most challenging classes available to you. 92% of MIT admits were in the top 5% of their high school classes last year (stats</a>), and many or most of these students were valedictorians.</p>
<p>do you really go to northtampton hs? there is honors bio, or at least there was when I was a freshman.</p>
<p>if you do go there, I can tell you that the only grades that get sent are your final grades, so individual first quarter, second quarter and final exam grades don't get seen by colleges. this includes if you take year long courses. it doesn't really matter where you apply, the transcript that guidance sense out only includes final grades. some schools don't look at freshman grades at all, however.</p>
<p>way too early for you to be worrying about college though.</p>
<p>They actually took out honors bio. I'm stuck with normal bio but the teacher is very hard. No extra credit, 100 point tests, and a 5 minuet quiz almost everyday. (worth 10 points each) To her an A- is very rare. I just don't want to get a b+ in bio and have a college think that I'm not good in science when I really am good. It's just imposable to get an A- in this class. This isn't fair to me because people with other bio teachers are getting easy A's because they have it much easier.</p>
<p>I would assume that there are some students with that teacher who do manage to get A- or higher. You could ask them or your teacher for help as well.</p>
<p>mmm, i got unlucky with teachers quite a bit too, i.e. my sophomore honors chem teacher deducted half credit from each question on our problem sets (yes, he really called them problem sets!) for even slightly incorrect sig figs, while the other honors chem teacher down the hall gave her kids extra credit if they got the sig figs right. half her kids had grades in the 95-100 range, and the highest grade my teacher gave out was a rounding-up 93 (worse yet, i had a 92.4!).
he was subsequently fired for verbal abuse (he directly called us all stupid on a daily basis).
it was delightful xD</p>
<p>but i think mit realizes that these things happen, so i wouldn't worry too much.</p>
<p>phymm, how did your district fire a teacher for verbal abuse? Was he relatively new? The union has such a tight grip on this thing my former school district still has pedophiles they can't get rid of. Do you go to a charter school or something similar?</p>