<p>I just got my semester grades...they dont look too great:</p>
<p>AP Lit. 93 (B+)
AP Calc. 92 (B+)
AP Stats: 96 (A)
AP Physics 96 (A)
Chem: 95 (A-)
Econ:96 (A)
Journalism:100 (A+)</p>
<p>Compared to others' grades, my GPA has dropped a lot...im now ranked 4 or so outta 75, gpa is 3.75 UW. will those B+s really screw up my app?</p>
<p>I'm so jealous, here's mine::</p>
<p>AP French Lang. - 90% (A-)
AP English Lit. - 93% (A)
AP Human Geography - 100% (A+)
AP US Government - 90% (A-)
AP Biology - 84% (B)
AP European History - 95% (A)
AP Macroeconomics - 82% (B-)</p>
<p>I hate the sciences!!! Them and their math cousins are gonna join forces and get me rejected!!!</p>
<p>B's are ok as long as everything else is ok, so don't worry about them too much if you don't have to.</p>
<p>The fcked up thing about my school is that it's grading scale is so messed up:</p>
<p>A+ 99-100
A 96-98
A- 94-95
B+ 91-93
B 88-90
....</p>
<p>and they dont grade any the easier than other schools...grrr!!! how do I let Pton know?!?!</p>
<p>Yeah, I was noticing that. Totally sucks. </p>
<p>If your really that concerned about it, I recommed sending a note with your mid-year report.</p>
<p>yeah...but i dont wanna sound like im whining or anything. I was definitely going to be valed. but this quarter just pulled my avg. down. Now im rank 4, (unofficial)...and its not reported..they only report the valed. and sal. thats all...</p>
<p>my new UWGPA is 3.80 after this sem... (freshmen year was EXTREMELY easy, sophmore year was a bit harder, junior year was BAD, first semester senior year I pulled off nice balanced grades)
AP Microeconomics - A-
AP Computer Science - B+
AP Calculus BC - B+
AP Physics - B+
AP Latin Virgil - A-
AP English Literature - A-</p>
<p>I dunno how a well-balanced 6 AP grades will work for me.</p>
<p>yeah...Im VERY worried, because Im losing my standing in school, and one girl ranked above me is also applying to princeton. She has a 1550, 800, and some 700+ in the IIs, a frikkin 4.55 W, while I have a 4.40 W. my grades are less than her's and im just feeling all depressed cuz of that...</p>
<p>well she's definitely smarter than me... 1400, 720 Latin, 710 MIIC, and 670 Writ, 650 Chem...</p>
<p>My weighed GPA is 4.36, but if they take out fine arts and theology classes, my GPA is like 4.45 or something to that extent...</p>
<p>i think both of us are on the path of rejection</p>
<p>im worried as well. I got a C in physics (toughest class at my school. Theres only about 5 grades each grading period), but I had underlying circumstances. Is there anyway I can tell them why the grade was so bad?</p>
<p>Dominus - I dunno about a C cuz thats already DANGER ZONE... u might still have a shot.</p>
<p>callthecops - I won't call it quits yet. I'm going to fight for myself in the interview when it comes. I'm going to defend myself.</p>
<p>Dominus - If there was a real, valid CONVINCING reason for that C, let them know.</p>
<p>I'm probably still ranked in the top 10 of my class, I won't know until I get my sem. report card</p>
<p>I hope it goes up a lot though</p>
<p>That's a really messed up scale, callthecops. Do the letter or number grades show up on your transcript? You should let Princeton know because they're probably not familiar with international schools. </p>
<p>Something I've also noticed was that some schools don't have +/-. So like 90-100 are all A. Does this mean that the people who do have +/-'s suffer? Because someone with say, straight A-'s would have a 4.0 at one school and a 3.7/3.8 at another. </p>
<p>I have two more days left this semester so I dont' know my grades yet. But today was a pretty report-card destroying day. Calculus test, in class history essay and pop spanish quiz, all of which were pretty bad. Blah!</p>
<p>well my teacher says an A- is an A. dunno how much weight his opinion is.</p>
<p>the downside if a school gets rid of +/- is that colleges will not know what range a grade falls in.</p>
<p>for e.g., if someone has an 89, a B+ looks nice cuz adcom will know its a high B. Take away the + and it looks just like a B, wihtout any indication on how high or low you are (whether you barely got the B or you were close to A-).</p>
<p>Well I know that my grades on my transcript have +/- and I thought that princeton converts them to a score based on their own system (my school doesn't have GPA)...how do they go about doing that with all these different systems? So arbitrary!</p>
<p>i think princeton, like any other institution, takes into consideration your APs and Honors and weeds out the fine arts from your GPA.</p>
<p>i dunno, thats what i think they do.</p>
<p>We don't have official AP classes either...gah this is getting annoying...no rank, no gpa no AP...</p>
<p>How's discovering your mom has cancer for a reason? I've been having to do a lot of the stuff for her, not to mention the stress of it all. Physics is a class that has about 6 total assignments per grading period. My semester grade is a B, but the last grading period is a C. How am I now? How can I let them know what the reason is for?</p>
<p>dominus - what were your grades prior to this semester? im sure if you had all straight As and a consistent track record, princeton might take into consideration the circumstances. </p>
<p>zantedeschia - u do have grades right? just have your GC clear things up with Princeton on how your school functions so Princeton can give you a better evaluation</p>