<p>I was wondering if anyone was admitted with grades which were below A-. It seems everyone nowadays has a 4.0 :(. Thanks in advance! :D</p>
<p>Donating legacies and minorities.</p>
<p>I had a 3.7. Cs in Physics and Pre Calculus, many Bs.</p>
<p>I got a B in Marine Science when I was a freshman, and also a B in <em>sigh</em> PHYSICAL EDUCATION. </p>
<p>That's kind of a joke now among my friends. I am kind of overweight, and when people ask me whether I got any B's and I tell them that I got a B in P.E. they laugh. </p>
<p>But hey, the P.E. teacher at my school gave grades according to performance, not effort. Totally unfair. I should have complained to my counselor so that he would try to change it to an A, but whatever. P.E. doesn't matter.</p>
<p>of course! B's in ap us history (bleh), regulars physics, ap computer science, honors chemistry, ap english literature, ap us government</p>
<p>ETC ETC</p>
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But hey, the P.E. teacher at my school gave grades according to performance, not effort. Totally unfair.
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You mean like how it works in all those other classes? Like math? And chemistry? </p>
<p>I got B's and C's, but my school is only in the Top 60, so I don't know if that actually counts.</p>
<p>Can everyone also please list the schools they got into and were rejected from?</p>
<p>Despite the facts that grades aren't everything and there are so many other factors going into the admissions process, listing the schools you guys were rejected and accepted to places, for the purposes of this thread, things a bit more into context.</p>
<p>Most students on this forum are looking for admission into a selective school( I'm generalizing here, work with me). </p>
<p>If you list that you got C's or many B's and simply say you were admitted, it may raise unrealistic hopes for many- if the actual truth is that you were rejected from all your dream/top schools and got into Arizona State( not that there is anything wrong with ASU)</p>
<p>However, if you did carry those grades and got into Columbia or Amherst or NYU or whatever school ,it, again puts things more into context. It would perhaps reinforce that for that particular student, an exceptionally strong essay tipped the scales in his favor. Or mayhap it was his legacy factor. Or he was an URM. Or he's from Nebraska. Or a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>Or he got lucky and his grades were overlooked! ( in light of his better attributes, which is what we are all praying for! Well, for those of us who have blunders on our record.)</p>
<p>My high school didn't run on the US system so I can't tell you my GPA. However, I can tell you that my grades were anything but stellar. Some of them were really bad actually (it's impossible to convert, but I had a grade in Physics that would probably be a C. And a couple of "B-" in other subjects.)</p>
<p>I had a strong upward trend though! I got into four great schools (all in the top 15 of the USNWR ranking). Good luck</p>
<p>What colleges did all of you get into?</p>
<p>I got A- s in Honors PreCalc second semester junior year, AP Calc BC first semester, and my one semester of AP Econ. And I got a B+ in AP Calc BC this last semester. I blame senioritis.</p>
<p>At our school, though, A- doesn't equal an A in calculating GPA (though an A+ does? One of many things I disagree with.). So getting an A- does actually impact your GPA.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if you're looking for worse grades than this or anything. There are very few perfect people in the world. Certainly not enough to fill all the top colleges. They do have to dip into the pool of us mere mortals from time to time. ;)</p>
<p>(By the way, got into: Pton, ND, UChicago, UMich, and going to: MIT)</p>
<p>Accepted to Fordham, BC, NYU, Haverford, Middlebury, Amherst.
Rejected from Columbia, Harvard, Princeton :)</p>
<p>Our val that went to Yale last year had a B+ or two. Probably can stretch that even further...</p>
<p>I will have 7 Bs over 4 years and am going to a top 20 school (Vanderbilt)</p>
<p>Obviously, colleges will look at your grades relative to the course rigor and workload. In general, with a challenging courseload, I think a couple of A-'s is okay...perhaps several B's, but try to keep close to a 3.8-3.9</p>
<p>By the end of junior year, I had about 25 semester B's</p>
<p>But because my school averages them into yearly grades (and I distributed my semester B's out pretty evenly), I only had 2 B's</p>
<p>I'm going to Swarthmore</p>
<p>I am going to Duke and was accepted to Cornell, Northwestern, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, WashU, and Tufts, rejected from UPenn and Dartmouth, and waitlisted at Columbia and Caltech with a 3.44 unweighted.</p>
<p>Course Title - Grade - Credit
Freshman:
World Lit H - B - 1
Global History H - B+ - 1
Pre-Cal Research Honors - A - 1
Physics B AP - A - 1
Spanish 9H - A - 1</p>
<p>Junior:
American Lit H - B - 1
US Hist & Govt H - A+ - 1
Calculus BC AP - A - 1
Physics C AP - A+ - 1
Natural Science Research Seminar - A+ - 1
Spanish 10H - A - 1
Health - A+ - .5</p>
<p>Senior
Great Literature H - B+ - 1
Govt & Pol AP - A - .5
Multivar Calculus - A+ - .5
Biology AP - A - 1
Chemistry AP - A - 1
Independent Science Research - A+ -.5
Spanish 11H - B+ - 1</p>
<p>how is that a 3.44??? that looks more like a 3.8ish to me</p>
<p>B's in: Band, Spanish, English, Spanish, Physics, and Spanish, and I got into Georgetown.</p>
<p>CC is not in any way representative of the overall applicant pool, don't stress out</p>
<p>mrchipmunk90, my school has a positively demented grading system.</p>
<p>On assignments, we get letters. On tests/quizzes, we get numbers which are immediately converted to a 4.0 scale like so:
80-84 - 2.5
85-89 - 3.0
90-94 - 3.5
95-100 - 4.0</p>
<p>After our grades for each class are calculated according to a weighted average (decided by the teacher) of the grades for the quarter, the results are converted into letter/4.0 grades by:
2.25-2.74 - B - 2.5
2.75-3.24 - B+ - 3.0
3.25-3.74 - A - 3.5
3.75-4.00 - A+ - 4.0</p>
<p>The quarters are averaged for a semester grade in only non-AP classes. In these non-AP classes, the semester grades are then averaged, along with the final exam grade, for the final grade. In AP classes, the quarter grades are averaged for the final grade.</p>
<p>Finally, the final year grades of all classes are averaged (weighted by credits) to arrive at the final GPA.</p>
<p>As you can see, it is a very tough grading procedure.</p>
<p>Ahh, that was fun to type out...</p>
<p>wow that's stupid.</p>
<p>but colleges see your transcript, so they can see when your high school has a stupid grading system. so when you say you have a 3.44, the colleges know that in your case, it is actually the equivalent of something better than that.</p>
<p>congrats on Duke btw</p>