<p>Okay so i was wondering if let's say i get straight As throughout high school and 1 B... how much of a difference would it be? (Especially if my rank will fall from like 1 to 30 because of the 1 B)</p>
<p>i dont think colleges are even going to consider your application actually... maybe you should retake the year?</p>
<p>You're pretty much destined for community college and a two year associates degree.</p>
<p>yes, try and see if any community colleges would accept you.
that B might hurt your chances for most junior colleges/community colleges.
forget going to college after high school, just do your best for a CC, you might get into one, you never know.</p>
<p>take a gap year or retake the year with the B. that's absolutely unacceptable. i hope your guidance counselor had a talk with you about your poor grades.</p>
<p>I'll try to give you a real answer: The b shouldn't really matter, and the class rank won't matter a ton...harvard rejects hundreds of valedictorians every year.</p>
<p>you suck sibelius hahaha</p>
<p>Lol.. you guys are haters.. i was just wondering whether a 30 person difference in rank because of one B would hurt my chances a lot!</p>
<p>That depends on the size of the class. Given the fact that a single B will drop you from #1 to #30, I assume your class has over 500 students in it. If that's the case, you will be ok. And of course, it depends what your academic goals are. If you want to apply to MIT or Caltech and your B was in Math or Physics, you can pretty much kiss your chances bye-bye! But if your B was in basketweaving or History, you will probably be fine.</p>
<p>i'm guessing you're a sophomore? at my school, freshman year, one B was the difference between 1st and 55th rank (out of 580 ish). Sophomore year, it was the difference between 1st and 25th or so. Junior year, only about 10 people had straight As. Senior year, that number is down to probably 5. So as more people get "one B", it will matter less and less. As long as you aren't an all-or-nothing student, who decides that as long as one B is okay, all Bs are okay... then gets one C and decides the same thing about Cs... because, trust me, I've seen that happen plenty.</p>
<p>Lol, i am a junior and i got to a VERY competitive school in Oregon.. and our class has only 335 students in it.. and sadly this B is in Math and i will be applying to MIT...O GOD... hopefully i can bring it up to an A before the semester is over...Math is my best subject.. i scored 99th percentile on ACTs and qualified for the AIME it's just that i'm getting kind of bored with all the things i already know,so i stopped doing the HW and my teacher wont accept late work...</p>
<p>i don't know about your school, but my school's transcripts only show final grades for the year, unlike a report card. </p>
<p>but either way, one B is not going to kill you. or even really affect your chances at all. you would have to be a REALLY iffy applicant to have your admission decided based on .1 or so of your GPA.</p>
<p>If one B drops you 29 places, that's gonna reflect badly on your school -- it seems as though you have severe grade inflation.</p>
<p>I don't think that if the B were in a science/math, you'd have no chance of getting into MIT/Caltech, or even a significantly reduced chance...</p>
<p>I still stand on what i said earlier, retake the year. Flunk every course this year, come back next year and try it one more time... how could you get a B, i don't understand how that is feasible...</p>
<p>Don't you care about your future?</p>
<p>How many students from your school normally get into top colleges? Consider past years. Are any students with the ranking of roughly 30 being accepted at the schools you're looking at? How good are the other parts of your transcript? You have to consider all of these things.</p>
<p>I've gotten 5 B's so far this year. Should I just drive to the Grand Canyon and jump off?</p>
<p>No, Mr. Yankee. Littering is bad. As long as you're challenging yourself and not just slacking off, B's aren't a dart to the heart. I know folks who have gotten into top colleges with a couple C's.</p>
<p>But wouldn't jumpin off the GC make for a great extracurricular?</p>
<p>Maybe if you first started jumping off in 7th grade and won some national awards or performed the hardest diving move ever attempted, you could use it as a hook.</p>
<p>If you survive, yes.</p>