No! Grades are falling! Would like to know how this will affect me...

College Search & Selection
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<p>Well, it looks like this semester has treated me very poorly....I'm on the block schedule, with two aps, one honors course, teacher intern for spanish 4, and leadership class elective...but unfortunately I may be getting anywhere from 1 to 3 B's.....The B's would be in AP US history, Honors english, and AP Calculus (for junior year)</p>

<p>So far my GPA for 10-12 is 4.59 weighted, 3.94 unweighted</p>

<p>However, say if the worst of all possibilities occurred, that could drop sharply to a 4.45 weighted and a 3.83-ish unweighted GPA...</p>

<p>Also, my rank as of now is 2 out of 512....if I got 3 B's...they would drop my rank probably to about 5-8 out of 512 (my school is tough...)</p>

<p>There are many reasons as to why this is happening this semester (private matters along with unfair teachers), but say if I improve next semester and get all A's in three aps and an honors course next semester (like I managed to do both semesters in my sophomore, with just one B+ and the rest A's), could I stil have a chance at getting into these schools?:
Top 4 choices:
Stanford
MIT
Wharton<br>
Wash. U </p>

<p>Matches/Slight Reaches:
UCLA
UC San Diego
USC</p>

<p>Safeties:
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
UC Irvine</p>

<p>My Ec's are fine, SAT is about 2100 (expected), and everything else is up to par...but since your transcript is the first thing they see, I would like to know if the three B's would kill my chances...</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Talk about insane. So maybe you won't get into Stanford, big woop. There's worse things in life.</p>

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<p>Actually, my first choice at this point MIGHT be washington university in st louis....Great business school, plus nearly my whole extended family is there, whom I visit every christmas and have a great time.</p>

<p>Stanford would be nice too, I love the campus, plus my dad went there and said it was a good experience overall..</p>

<p>Maybe UCLA would still be within my grasp as well?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Illsyck,</p>

<p>From what I know the UCs (like UCLA) do not really care about 7th semester grades provided you do not fail classes/ drop sharply (your drop is not sharp).</p>

<p>I think that the private colleges' midyear reports, while examining all of your first semester grades, serve that purpose as well- incentive to prevent students from slacking off. While you may have dropped a little bit, I do not think it changes the competitive image you are sending to the colleges.</p>

<p>In short: I think you're fine.</p>

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<p>since when was a worst case scenario .11 decline considered sharp?</p>

<p>so your average went from an A to an....A.</p>

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<p>Well I thought that maybe it'd look odd on a transcript to see straight A's in Ap courses...and then come across three B's....</p>

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<p>Oh don't worry, illsyck, the EXACT same thing is happening to me right now. I suppose all we can do is hope for the best and take some solace in the fact that we are not alone! Haha.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I agree with the above. It's fine. =)</p>

<p>Also, a 2250+ tends to raise one's chances for Stanford.</p>

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<p>From the wording, I thought the OP is a junior rather than a senior. Am I wrong?</p>

<p>Either way, three B's will not hurt your chances. For Wharton, Stanford, MIT, and perhaps Wash U, you would need well over a 2100 to be competitive, but you are in range for the rest of those schools.</p>