Senior Year Dip

Applying to College
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<p>I'm going to end up with 2 Bs this semester (AP physics and Spanish 4 h) and it's going to bring my cumulative GPA to a 3.925 unweighted. I had straight As in high school with an exception of 1 B in Spanish last year. My current courseload is 5 APs and 1 honors. (Econ, Lit, Chem, Calc BC, Physics, and Spanish) </p>

<p>How bad is this going to look and how much is it going to affect admissions? Especially since it's a downward trend? Will they understand since I'm taking a pretty heavy courseload this year? </p>

<p>Schools I'm applying to:</p>

<p>Cornell
Duke
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Rice
Stanford (applied SCEA, deferred)
WashU
UCs (Cal, LA, SD...they don't ask for mid-year school reports so I think I'm fine here)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/435636-senior-year-grades-do-they-really-matter.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/435636-senior-year-grades-do-they-really-matter.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for the link…but can anyone provide opinions about my specific situation?</p>

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<p>dang…I gotta get my belt up.</p>

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<p>are you experiencing the same problems, i_fate?</p>

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<p>Well, OBVIOUSLY it looks worse than getting all A’s</p>

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<p>2 B-'s might hurt. If they’re B+'s i really doubt it.</p>

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<p>Just, try and improve one of them to an A…is that possible?</p>

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<p>It’s basically final X_X</p>

<p>Our school doesn’t give pluses or minuses so even though one is a B and the other is a B+, they’ll both show up as Bs.</p>

<p>@newest newb: Obviously, I know they are worse the getting all As. What I’m interested in is HOW MUCH will I be affected.</p>

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<p>not at all</p>

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<p>they will affect you in an innumerable amount of ways.</p>