Some B's. Bleh.

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I know it's kinda lame lol. BUt I had to be out for a few days due to an injury and had a delay in getting my doctor's note. Those combined absences resulted in me getting a B due to some wierd grading policy at our school.</p>

<p>Gym doesn't count in our GPA but shows up on our transcript. My rank won't be impacted though. </p>

<p>My problem is though, I 've been a pretty much straight-A student all through high school with the exception of two B's second semester junior year in very hard classes. I got a perfect GPA first semster of last year though. Now, I am a senior who was a deferred applicant at Penn's Huntsman program and I got two more B's this semster in Calc and Physics (easily known as the two hardest APs in our school). SO my midyear report has three B's - gym (ugh), calc, and physics (bleh). Is this the kiss of death???</p>

<p>I was ranked in the top 1 percent of my school....and I think I still should be around that..</p>

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<p>It is most certainly not the kiss of death, even for Penn. If they were C’s and not B’s, then maybe.</p>

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<p>Would two C’s be a “kiss of death” IF my average GPA is a 4.2? Would they be willing to forgive this blemish if they see I have A’s in my AP courses and pretty much all of my of my other courses? (check out my Chances thread for the full explanation <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/853840-chance-me-please.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/853840-chance-me-please.html&lt;/a&gt; ). I’m just a little worried since someone hinted that C’s might be the kiss of death.</p>

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<p>does penn look at weighted gpa? or unweighted? and also, do they look by the 4.0 system or straight grades?</p>

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<p>hey im in like a very similar position…i hope it doesn’t hurt! </p>

<p>It’s definitely been hard this year!</p>