<p>I am a 4.0 unweighted student, and this year I seriously do not care anymore. AP Lit is hard as hell, and I am sick of it already. Rather than kill myself, grasping for that A that only 5% of her students get, I will relax and get a B. That is what I want to do, BUT will it have an adverse effect on my college admissions? </p>
<p>Do colleges actually care about senior year grades or do they just ask for a midyear report to make sure you aren't slacking off and as long as you aren't slacking off they don't care?</p>
<p>It does matter, and you definitely shouldnt slack off first semester. you can take it a little more easy after but you want to do good because its the most recent grades colleges will see.</p>
<p>All that I really have going for me is almost perfect SAT scores and a perfect GPA. Not many ECs, but I don't want to kill myself for AP Lit. My question is just 1 B? Will that affect my decisions? </p>
<p>This is my projected Grades if I slack off</p>
<p>AP Literature B
Spanish 4 Honors A
AP Chemistry A
AP Government A
Physics 4a (at community college) A
Calculus 1d (at community college) A</p>
<p>I am aiming for UPenn. Or NYU Stern. I am instate California so Berkeley is basically guaranteed.</p>
<p>ap lit is supposed to be easy i thought. that's why evrybody everywhere takes it, oh well, the ap test is complete bs because it has nothing to do with english and is all about shakespeare and books. </p>
<p>one b will not ruin your app, it will ruin your o.c.-based pride in 4.0 . but who doesn't like 4.0 its shiny.</p>
<p>you can either:
stress out to the max and get an a if you're lucky
stress out and get a high b, then get ****faced in depression at a party, unless you want to get a buzz, or both, w/e - or you can just go to ap lit while inebriated - its fun
chill, have fun, get the b (low-mid b), and worry about other classes</p>
<p>assuming a normal decile grading scale...
its better to have one 83 and a bunch of 95's than all 89's. you might get into upenn, but i'd paypal you $5 if you didn't get into berkeley. if you have 4.3 + 2200 + ok essays (you wrote something that adheres to the rules of the english language) + 3ec's you're in.</p>
<p>remember colleges only care if you start getting c's or d's. maybe f's too. you can always make up an excuse for a b (my dog died, yes the one that ate my homework)</p>
<p>Who cares about one freakin B??
If you're applying ED, it doesn't matter at all...
the admission counselor is not going to sit there wondering about your one B.</p>
<p>I feel the same way you do.
I have a bunch of AP Classes coming up in my senior year.
As of the end of junior year, I'm number 1 in my class!
That's what the counselor is going to see.
After I get accepted, I don't CARE where I end up at the end of the year.</p>
<p>So, in my senior year, I'm only going to worry about my college applications.</p>
<p>By the way, I'm applying UPenn (Wharton) ED. I'll keep you all updated on that.</p>
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stress out and get a high b, then get ****faced in depression at a party, unless you want to get a buzz, or both, w/e - or you can just go to ap lit while inebriated - its fun
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<p>This, my friends, is some of the worst advice I've ever seen.</p>
<p>Many schools add a point to your GPA for taking an AP. So that means if you got a B, schools would look at it like you got an A. Just take the hardest classes you can. Colleges really like it and it'll either let you start at a higher level in college or have an easier first semester since you're used to hard classes. I don't think you can go wrong by taking an AP or dual enrollment.</p>
<p>Dunno what school you all go to, but AP Lit is one of the hardest classes at my school. I took the late AP test cuz I had scheduling conflicts, and the stupid curve rate made me get a 4. If I took it in regular with all you slackers I could have easily pulled off the 5. Damn....now they probably think that I'm another asian guy who can do numbers but can't write for crap.</p>
<p>Can someone answer this one question. I know colleges look at senior grades, AKA the mid-year report, to see if your getting anything below Ds/Fs, in which case your admission may be rescinded. NOW FOR THE BIG QUESTION: Do your senior grades actually matter TO GET IN? For example, they say for grades they only look at soph/junior year grades (well, many colleges do),and so, if you're passing ALL your difficult, senior-year courses, but not getting great grades (AKA all As, or all As and a few Bs), will that count AGAINST you ? or are senior year grades used exclusively to see ONLY that 1) u have a difficult courseload and 2) you're passing everything ???</p>
<p>fastmed, give yourself a break and take the B. It won't count against you AND you might find yourself lucky to do enough work to be that %5 that gets As in your lit class.</p>
<p>Lol. Hopefully, maybe I will get lucky eh? Well, if I do get lucky, I will probably go to a top college. Last year, almost everyone that got an A in her class went to HYPMS. The few that chose not to HYPMS went to Dartmouth and UPenn.</p>