<p>Last year, my grades were top-notch. I had a 97 average in my classes...which were mostly honors. This year, however, I didn't do so well. I moved in the summer and i had to switch schools. My grades declined this year (my soph year) and I only have about a 91 average in my hard honors classes. I'm going to try to get it back together next year and strive for the best grades possible, but do you think that my slight decline in grades will really effect my chances when it comes down to applying? I would really like to apply to the top schools, but I am just a little concerned that this years grades will hurt me. Any opinions?</p>
<p>No..It's still an A average. You're worrying too much!</p>
<p>go eat a cookie, you will be fine</p>
<p>Here, have</a> a cookie. Now Walk It Out.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's still an A average. I'm pretty sure all colleges will see is a 4.0, not a specific average like 91 or 97.</p>
<p>id be speaking to my GC and crying to all my teachers and stop having a social life, the difference between a 91 and a 91 is between A+ and an A. Studies have shown that people with 91 averages end up living a normal upper middle class lifestyle.CAUTION.</p>
<p>The difference between a 97 and a 91 is the difference between an A+ and an A-. That's really not that bad. You're fine! Big deal! </p>
<p>Relax.</p>
<p>Do your best.</p>
<p>depends what your gonna be when you grow up, statistically garbage men had an average of 2 92 average in high school according to many surveys done over the years. the rest of the world had like a 98, so you got a lot of work to do.</p>
<p>There was a time when I thought that the world revolved around my grades. Of course, that was just as naive as believing in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus. Unfortunately, the Grade Fairy myth lasts far longer than the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus myths.</p>
<p>Trust me, 10 years from now, NOBODY will care if you were an A or B student. NOBODY will care if you graduated from the #1 college, #10 college, #100 college, or #1000 college.</p>
<p>Believe me, you can sit back, relax, and still get into almost as many colleges as your perfect counterpart. You probably won't get into Harvard, but you could say the same thing about most of the others applying there, even those with Nobel Prizes, enough community service to rival Mother Theresa, valedictorian status, multiple 800s, etc. Of course, being a perfect student requires FAR more effort than merely being a good student for perhaps 2% more benefit. Can you see the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns at work here?</p>
<p>^ the loser's attitude imo.... not to be rude or anything but yeah, in 10 years it's going to count. </p>
<p>I'm not saying this just to **** people off. The wrong attitude to have is: heck, I'm gonna make it big neway when I grow up so why the heck should I learn and waste so many hours each day of my life right now?!?!</p>
<p>Well, it is going to count when you apply for a job.</p>
<p>Thanks for the uhh....imput.</p>
<p>I know I worry too much, but its really important to me that I do my best now. And I know a couple of you said that it wont matter 10 years from now...but isn't it true that if you work hard in high school and get into a good school with a good major, you will eventually have a stable, well paying job? So it can matter if you think about it, right??</p>
<p>jhsu: Don't hyperbolize. Here's the thing: while you're right that in 10 years nobody is going to care about your high school grades, and to an extent that where you go to college isn't that important, don't give yourself any false impressions - some colleges WILL look better than others, and someone who works hard at Harvard IS initially going to do better than someone who worked hard at a state university.</p>
<p>As for your relaxation comment, true enough, but I'm what many people at my school would call a perfect candidate (I'm not actually), and I still relax a ton. And I'm still going to a great school. Success and relaxation aren't always exclusive.</p>
<p>OP:</p>
<p>Don't kill yourself over being the best, but don't slack either. It will matter, but you have to ask yourself whether or not it's worth it. In your case, 91 vs. 97 won't matter.</p>
<p>it's now what you, know it's who you know(or, who knows you).</p>
<p>you could have gone to harvard or whatever, but when you have no social skills because you locked yourself in your dorm to study, you're not going to interview very well. </p>
<p>while the person who went to a honors state college learned how to network, and get the job.</p>
<p>^^I totally agree. Plenty of people have bypassed their backgrounds in order to become millionaires and experts and senators and other really awesome things. There are mcdonalds workers from yale (okay, maybe not that low, but like starbucks or something :)) and millionaires who went to boonstown community college. It's really about what kind of determination you have within you and how you use your talents to achieve what you want. If you say, oh my god I've got a 91, I'm a failure, then you probably are a failure and will be a failure no matter what your grades look like. But if you take that 91, and say, this isn't what I want, how can I do better, then you are probably the kind of person who will achieve the things you want in life.</p>
<p>Gates, Dell, Steve Jobs, Ralph Lauren, Richard Branson....</p>
<p>none of the graduated from college...should say at least something</p>
<p>yea dude in the end what matters is work experience, noones really gives a damn where you went as long as you know what your doing.</p>
<p>ok- i nominate this thread for most pointless thread of the year award- that' like complaining that you couldn't get into harvard, you could only get into MIT, Yale, and Stanford(seeing how you panic, ill have to say that this won't affect your chances at harvard)</p>