<p>If you have a strong GPA and descent SAT score, do senior year grades have that big of an affect on your application? Like will they make or break your application?</p>
<p>thats what i'd like to know because senior grades kicked me in the butt with metal spikes on top</p>
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<p>I think they do concentrate on senior grades, since they require a mid-year report; colleges in general don't want to see that you are slacking off, however if you have a very tough schedule they might overlook your grades a little.</p>
<p>Mmmm senior year gave me a sharp smack in the face as well. Not because I was slacking off but because I signed up for a combo of classes that were just way too hard for me. Ew.</p>
<p>Senior year grades really depend on your situation. If you are a student with an upward trend in your grades then colleges will look at your snr yr grades to make sure you continue to go up. If you were a strong student freshmen yr and your grades have consistently gone down and they finally hit rock bottom snr yr, then yes, snr yr grades probably can lead to a rejection.
I think snr yr grades are used more for rejecting people then accepting to be honest.</p>
<p>For admitted ED students, NU is making us send an end-of-year report by July to see our first and second semester senior grades, and they're not going to consider rescinding admission unless they see D's or F's.</p>
<p>If I got my first B+ this year, will it really matter a whole ton? I had never gotten anything lower than an A- before now.
It's in AP Calculus (not my thing)</p>
<p>Probably won't make a difference.</p>
<p>Hey all ED people</p>
<p>Are we supposed to send midterm grades or just at the end of the year?</p>
<p>Thanks xD</p>
<p>Just end of year reports, I'm positive.</p>
<p>ugh AP Calc is killing me... I'm probably getting a very low B
and it's the worst time to be getting a mental block because I don't want my colleges to think that I'm slacking... I just don't get this material. I'm taking 7 classes total - 4 APs, 1 Honors Psych (AP not offered), 1 independent research, and a musical theater, but I'm just afraid that colleges will see my low AP Calc grade and think I'm slacking after apps are in.</p>
<p>ugh AP Calc. this class is literally killing me.....in a stress level kind of way. I was so lucky to end up with an A for the semester, but studying for my calc final was probably one of the most stressful things i can imagine, especiallly since my brain is basically fried after spending so much time on college apps/senior yr classes/ECs....and i just dont get calc...but if its any consolation, i think if its obvious that your strengths dont lie in math (youve mabye indicated an english/social sciences major???), then one B+ in calc wont hurt you...</p>
<p>So we got our semester grades back today...
AP Calc killed almost everyone's straight-A's haha. Gosh, what is it about that class that causes so much pain?!</p>
<p>Oh.. probably forgetting "+C", plugging in numbers incorrectly when doing riemann sums, implicit differentiation, forgetting trigonometric identies and integrals during tests.. that variety of things I imagine..</p>
<p>how much do u think straight Bs (multivariable calc, AP Gov, AP Lang, AP Stat, AP Physics) would affect my chances if I already had a crappy GPA to being with (3.55)?</p>
<p>Notsomuch:
SO true. Especially the trig identities and integrals part. Those certainly killed me. Twice.</p>
<p>Oh well, life goes on haha.</p>
<p>product rules... going back in to take the derivative
differential equations
derivatives and integrals of number to a power variable...
yeah</p>
<p>Better yet.. quiz on friday.. forgetting "Megawatts" is a rate and accidentally differentiating it! Stupid mistake for me - being a physics student - but how is someone not in physics supposed to know that a Watt is a Joule/Second? No one knows, I guess Calc students should be hijacking physics books to study.</p>
<p>i think the rule is above a 3.0 and no more then 1 C in any core class and no D's or F's.</p>