<p>will my chances be hurt if my senior grades look like this:</p>
<p>english: B
am. gov: A
speech: A
ap chem: A
ap econ: B
ap calc: B
ap spanish: C</p>
<p>how much will the C in spanish hurt me?</p>
<p>it will hurt you. Senior year is the second most important year after junior year.</p>
<p>So what happens if you go from straight As/A+s to A-s, and possibly a couple B+s?</p>
<p>Then college will assume you're not working as hard or you don't have the potential to succeed in the rigor of a college curriculum. Unless you're applying ED and don't send in your senior year grades, they will be looked at because this is the year that most people start to take many APs and college level courses.</p>
<p>what if i get all A's and 1 C?</p>
<p>it depends on what your previous grades were, bman. if you usually have all a's, then they'll probably think "he just messed up in that one class, he's not slacking" (although a C anywhere sticks out like a sore thumb in general). </p>
<p>but if you usually get all a's and you get what you said you would get on the first post, yes it would hurt you. you still could easily get in of course i don't know what your stats are like but if it's a question of whether or not it would hurt you, yes, unfortunately. just try to get the grades up to all a's if in any way possible, that would be really good, especially if that's even better than you usually do. upward trends are desirable.</p>
<p>but don't worry toooooo much, grades aren't everything. just put together an awesome application and you should be ok.</p>
<p>^ thanks a lot. post really helped. i'm really sure i'm going to get a C in spanish. the teacher hates me. and as for my previous grades, its been an upward trend since freshmen year so i dont think the grades will reflect me slacking off (hopefully).</p>
<p>oh yeah and another question. would it have been better for me to have stopped at spanish 3 and not have taken ap spanish (so i woulndt have gotton a C), drop ap spanish next semester, or just take the C in ap spanish both semesters?</p>
<p>would you guys say that all A's and 1 B+ and 1 B would hurt if I've been getting straight A's each year before? Applying ED...debating if I should bother sending.</p>
<p>I'd say keep going with it. At least that shows you're challenging youself. Besides, if you already got a C, another C in the same class wouldn't hurt you that much...</p>
<p>well its only one marking period isn't it? You can't pick up the grade for your second marking period? I'm sure if they saw that you got a C just for the first marking period, then an A in the second, they will definitely see it as just a small stray grade, nothing big. </p>
<p>Also, is it really true that Senior year is more important than freshmen and sophomore year? I've always thought this, and personally I've hoped that this was true. It makes sense, logically, because the only point of grades I would think is so they can determine whether the student will continue with good grades in college.</p>
<p>what is a b out of 100?</p>
<p>out of a hundred, in my school, a B is between 80 and 89.99
in my old school in canada, B is between 70 and 79.99</p>
<p>Yes, senior year is more important than freshman and sophomore years</p>
<p>"^ thanks a lot. post really helped. i'm really sure i'm going to get a C in spanish. the teacher hates me. and as for my previous grades, its been an upward trend since freshmen year so i dont think the grades will reflect me slacking off (hopefully).</p>
<p>oh yeah and another question. would it have been better for me to have stopped at spanish 3 and not have taken ap spanish (so i woulndt have gotton a C), drop ap spanish next semester, or just take the C in ap spanish both semesters?"</p>
<p>yea i agree with 123orange, just stick with spanish maybe you'll even be able to get a b or something next semester. anyways, your curriculum alone means a lot too so the AP Spanish will look good.</p>
<p>btw i hope that the thanks a lot wasn't sarcastic haha i mean i guess it wasn't that good of a post but w/e. i don't think that you were being sarcastic but i could be wrong.</p>
<p>I dont understand why you are worrying so much in the first two months. Yes, your teacher not liking you may not be so great, but that isn't the reason you have a C in spanish. I doubt that your school system would allow a teacher to take out 30 points for no reason just because they dont like you. In our school, the most subjective parts of our grades such as attendance, or participation and homework accounts for at most 15%. </p>
<p>I am sure it has most to do with your homework, quizzes and test performance then anything else, so just work at making it better! :P I think that if you change your class after a C it will send a bad message to colleges, that when you get a low grade or a failure, you will just give up. I think that's the worst thing you can tell any college you are applying to. ;)</p>
<p>It depends. I agree that teachers can't explicitly hate a student, but they can pull down a student's grade depending on the situation. My AP teacher, in a hope to "lower the curve," never tells us how many points each question is worth on the tests and takes off points on the most random things (not having a graph that is less than 1 inch^3 even though the answer is right.) So after a while, everyone went to him and was like, "What do you actually want???" But yeah... that is my rant... =_= I hate teachers who never keeps their promises and simply tries to trick the student.</p>
<p>my school does semester in 6 week trimesters. and our semester is over in 5 weeks now. first 6 weeks, i had a C, and the second 6 weeks i had a C- so i'm pretty sure i'll be getting a C for the semester. and btw, this teacher also gave me a citizenship grade of B..... for doing nothing? i really dont know why. i never talk in that class and i am never tardy/cut so yeah. but i had this teacher in 10th grade and i really messed around then but i dont know. so i guess since he hated me in 10th grade, he still hates me or something.</p>
<p>also kinda off topic question but does cornell superscore sats?</p>
<p>No, senior grades don't matter. The admission people understand that seniors slack off and they appreciate that you're ridding yourself of being lazy before coming to Cornell.</p>
<p>"No, senior grades don't matter"</p>
<p>Wrong!! Centuria, I can't help but notice how inaccurate your posts consistently are. </p>
<p>do a search for old copies of the Cornell daily sun. there was an article this semester about how students who slack too much will have their acceptance taken away from them. However, the article didnt specify what type of grade slippage would be accepted.</p>
<p>lol, yeah, that is clearly wrong. 1. as gomestar said, many colleges do rescind your application if you are doing bad in senior after they accepted you and 2. Colleges want to see above all that you will continue to succeed in their college after high school. I can't see how slacking off in senior year will help them see that.</p>