<p>Will I be hated by IVY league colleges when I apply because I have 1-2 B grades (89-87) every semester for the last 3 years of school? Overall I have a 92 avg..I will have taken by the end of senior year 13 AP classes, all of which I got high A's in. It was always arbitrary honors classes I got a b in (chemistry, spanish 4, etc). But I have a 2220 in SAT national merit most probably, various engineering internships, various jobs inluding tutoring and teaching sports,black belt, in and out of school tennis (both sports for many years and with awards and stuff), multiple clubs and leadership positions, lots of competition awards, 350 + hours of volunteerring, jobs, started an amnesty international club, been in the newspaper, started many fund raisers, tutored poor kids with talent, gotten many 5s on ap tests, yadda yadda yadda. Also due to my excellent ap course grades I have about a 92 total average for all 3 years of high school and am in the top 20 out of 750 kids in a very competitive high school (hopefully I won't drop...). So yeah I'm just worried...any fact based advice/reassurance/condemning is welcome...</p>
<p>The main reason, not to make excuses, for my b’s were that I took so many high level courses and extracurriculars that I just wasn’t always able to keep a decent a in a lower level honors class because I concentrated my efforts into getting high A’s in the ap classes…in fact other than the few high b’s my grades were exemplary in 10th and 11th (giving me a very very good gpa each of those years). In fact I’d be in top ten people if I hadn’t simply gotten low a’s in freshman year…my high school is incredibly hard,but yeah I would appreciate help.</p>
<p>It’s about rank, not number of Bs. Your rank won’t push you in (top 2) or keep you out (within the necessary top 10%).</p>
<p>Wait what?</p>
<p>Wait what? I meant top 20 people</p>
<p>Redroses meant that you are about in the top 2-3% of your grade. Since you’re within the top 10%, rank no longer will truly help or hurt your app.</p>
<p>I see. Well thanks for the input-but what about the B grades?I’d like to know of their effects…</p>
<p>Top 2-3% is pretty good, not as good as valedictorian or 1%, but very respectable. Don’t worry about your B’s, GPA, or rank.</p>
<p>What I meant is that he is not top 2 in his class which the majority of unhooked candidates admitted to ivies (other than non CAS Cornell) are, so his rank isn’t top by ivy standards and won’t be a plus. Yet he is within the top 10% so if he has major strengths in other areas, the rank won’t keep him out.</p>
<p>“What I meant is that he is not top 2 in his class which the majority of unhooked candidates admitted to ivies (other than non CAS Cornell) are, so his rank isn’t top by ivy standards and won’t be a plus.”</p>
<p>Are schools like Georgetown, Tufts, and Johns Hopkins included in that assessment? </p>
<p>This year I had an awful teacher in math (one person got a 27 on the final. It wasn’t me, but I wish I was kidding.) and ended the year with a B while all my other classes were A’s. If I’m not going into math or science, will the college understand if I still ended the year with about a 94 (weighted) average? (My school doesn’t rank, I’m not sure where I fall.)</p>
<p>Yes. You can calm down. One or two Bs won’t absolutely kill you. I know several people currently attending Ivies who had a few Bs here and there on their transcripts. It’s all relative to where you stand in your class, and the challenging nature of your schedule.</p>
<p>Georgetown, Tufts, and JHU are not Ivies, but they are also good schools. So while redroses certainly wasn’t talking about them, the comments could be extended to them.</p>
<p>Relax. :)</p>