<p>According to counselors if there's a teacher that doesn't give As, college admissions officers can see that. </p>
<p>Cuz literally, there's these teachers (2) who absolutely are known to NOT give As. counselors know them, students know them, parents know them. A and them are NOT compatible. </p>
<p>What are the chances that admissions officers will really see that if you've gotten a B that there were no As (and i mean As and A-) that the teacher gave?</p>
<p>How bad exactly is a lower GPA because of that, in your junior year?</p>
<p>It depends on what gpa you are aiming for. I’m going for straight A+, so if my school had a teacher like that, I’d do anything to avoid him/her, including transfering to another school.</p>
<p>i highly doubt admission officers can see that, unless it’s a very high-profile school like groton. let’s say you applied to yale, and you had a B+ in that class that has no As. Because you’re only one person, yale has no way to make sure this was actually a teacher that never gave As. If the val decided to apply to yale as well, and he/she also got that B+, then under the supremely large amounts of applications if they remember both of you went to the same high school and took the same course, they might speculate that the teacher didn’t give good grades. but it’s likely that if that happened, they might pick the val/sal over you.</p>
<p>^ that is just my guess. take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>i would honestly suck up like crazy, though i’m terrible at that. I have a similar dilemma this year, with a teacher that seems to create extremely hard quizzes/tests in comparison to the other teacher that’s laid back and more… chill.</p>
<p>a lot of people unfortunately end up with one or both of those two teachers. so college admissions would see that no one got As. Are you sure there’s a low possibility that admissions officers will see what other ppl got?</p>
<p>In 8th grade our spanish teacher had this system where the HIGHEST grade you could get was a 90 on orals (highest grade was a 9, but you had to divide it by 10…). Which accounted for 40 percent of our grade…</p>
<p>i rather have all the “bad non-A giving” teachers in middle school and NONE of them in high school. </p>
<p>IS IT WORTH IT TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO AVOID THE TEACHERS? INCLUDING DROPPING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND SCIENCE? (one teaches foreign language and one teaches a lot of the sciences) </p>
<p>including dropping these OR choosing a lower level?</p>
<p>you can avoid these teachers, but if they will teach you the course material, don’t!</p>
<p>i’ve heard from my counselor now that colleges are not as focused about GPA and Class Ranking bcuz there is intense grade inflation all over the country. those “helicopter” parents basically screwed it up for everybody (no offense to any helicopter parents out there, but it is the truth). so i wouldn’t worry about 1 B, but just learn the material, that’s the most important part. </p>
<p>besides, now colleges have focused more onto test scores because it is an even playing field of “nobody can manipulate that system” unlike the school system. </p>
<p>haha i guess. the trick with that is that the teachers don’t suddenly find some favorite and give like 1 A while everyone else gets something below. </p>
<p>haha i’ll try to do that. but the thing is lots of people are friends with the teacher and the teacher always jokes with/about them in class yet there are no As. </p>