<p>They basically just don’t want you to screw up so badly that it displays arrogance and a lack of of seriousness about academics (displaying that it was only a means to an end and that end has been reach). Grades should not be so bad that your transcript basically screams , “I got into Emory, and that was the whole purpose of my HS academics, and now that process is over, so I shouldn’t be interested anymore”. Getting some B’s don’t display this. That’s just a general form of senioritis. It means you kind of care, just not enough to continue to overly stress yourself out. Getting Cs, Ds, and Fs on the other hand is just kind of weird. It better have been a very hard class for really even a C to be acceptable.</p>