<p>^ Cool. I am guessing that grades would be more important when becoming a psychologist than being more creative. In fact, if you are creative when being a psychologist, you can really mess some one up. Imagine if someone who is suicidal comes into your office and you act creative by saying, "Ha, you don't have the guts, you pansy!" Not so good.</p>
<p>^ Most def.
Also, what if you were a "creative" engineer.
Sure that car kills people, but the removable floor panels are soooo cool!</p>
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<p>My daughter easily got 4.0+ 9th and 10th grade at her fairly competitive school. It was 11th grade that they started to separate out truly top students to good students in some of her AP/honors classes. It was hard even for some top students to get all As consistantly - some may be good in Honors English, but could not do better than a B+ in AP Physics. I think in most schools, if you could get all As for 4 years straight it is very impressive. </p>
<p>OP, you are only half way there. It will only get harder, especially Junior year when you are joggling SAT Is, SAT IIs, APs, and visiting colleges. You are doing great now, pat yourself on the back, but do not take your eyes off the ball.</p>
<p>smart.cookie: "Perhaps in some fields, but in business, engineering, and medicine being a creative maverick doesn't really mean anything. When you are offered a residency coming out of med school they look at two things: the grades you got and the research that you did. Out of business school: where you attended and your grades. Out of engineering programs: pretty much grades alone...My dad is a higher-up in the auto industry and hires engineers as part of his job. Basically what matters is one's grades. Creativity can be great for the arts, but in careers that typically pay nice salaries, grades are important. Just look at any company's hiring procedures."</p>
<p>I agree with some of what you've said. Grades do matter in some places. But the notion that being a creative maverick is unhelpful in the fields of medicine, engineering, and business is solidly false. The people in those professions who make the most money are usually creative mavericks.</p>
<p>Most jobs which are filled, BTW, are not filled right off of graduate school campuses. Work experience and achievements (along with interpersonal skills) trump grades handily, only one job out of school.</p>
<p>@ Olffort...Yeah, I am not going to forget it. I have seen so many kids just slack their Junior Year, which is surprising because I was told it was the "most" important of all the years of HS. Besides, I am not taking any APs, I am an IB kid. :)</p>
<p>Ha, smart.cookie., I can imagine the headline now...."Though creative, local engineer going to jail for manslaughter"</p>
<p>rmadden15, are you going to be a junior next year, or a senior?</p>
<p>^LMAO! 10 char</p>
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<p>smart.cookie: "Also, what if you were a "creative" engineer.
Sure that car kills people, but the removable floor panels are soooo cool!"</p>
<p>Well, I assumed your question had a long term focus. It should. A relative of mine runs one of the largest venture capital companies in the U.S. He started it (maverick that he is). He is an engineer by training, and is extremely creative. His creativity has helped him to amass a net worth totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. </p>
<p>That is why he is no longer designing floor panels.</p>
<p>^ Are you missing the humor?</p>
<p>No, I get it. It was funny. </p>
<p>But I still needed to make that point, because I really do hope that a lot of young people realize that science and engineeering are great places for creative minds.</p>
<p>I'm getting my first A- this semester (damn Chemistry final!), and I'm admittedly kind of bummed. I know it's silly! I'm probably not doomed for life (I mean, I don't want to say I'm DEFINITELY not doomed for life, but I think there's a fair shot my world won't come crashing down). But the 4.0 all through high school would have been a nice thing to pull off...I put a lot of effort into making it happen. </p>
<p>But oh well! Here's to flawed transcripts!</p>
<p>^ lol, I am upset I did so badly in Middle School, meaning I got like 5 A-s, which really affects my weighed GPA and put me at number 9 our of 205 instead of possibly 5.</p>
<p>^ Your middle school grades affected your HS gpa? That's insane!</p>
<p>^no, it is just that I took 8 HS classes before I entered HS, meaning I took them in Middle school or the summer between 8th and 9th grade.</p>
<p>My d has a 4.0 u.w. She just completed her jr. year, and her schedule has included all honors classes (except P.E., etc.) and AP classes (Bio, chem, art history, world history, american history, and Lang). We hope that these scores will impress someone at the colleges she's applying to, especially as she has 5's on AP exams (don't know this years, obvously) and a 35 ACT ... which should show that she's an excellent student and, if there's any grade inflation at the H.S., she's still got the "chops," so to speak on all the exams. I know for her ... those straight A's were earned, especially in AP Lang, as English is her least favorite subject.</p>
<p>zebes, who applauds her effort</p>
<p>it means that u can do ECs and they will put more importance on that since grades are perfect.</p>