<p>How does it change everything when it comes to getting into your choice of colleges? I know it's not the end of the world. (Yes, I actually know that.) But that doesn't mean I'm not worried about college admissions. If it makes any difference I go to an extremely hard prep school. Nowadays the simple fact is that college admissions are harder than ever.</p>
<p>If getting one B in your life is the worst thing that ever happens to you then you will have wonderful life</p>
<p>Trust me, I would know that an academic grade is NOT everything. Well, I can't make you trust me but at least I know that about myself. But I'm concerned in terms of college admissions.</p>
<p>It won't matter and frankly if you knew that as you state, you would not even ask</p>
<p>yea seriously.stop.</p>
<p>Is it wrong to be concerned at something? Should I wait until I get an F to get concerned? I'm not over here planning which community college I should attend. I have nothing to prove to you, so I'm not going to waste my time talking about stuff that aren't relevant to what I wanted to find out in the first place, which is simply about college admissions, NOT my entire life ahead of me.</p>
<p>Look, you already know from the posts here that getting a B means you only have a 5% chance of attending HYPS, 10% chance of attending a top 15 school, and basically means you have less than a 50% shot of attending a top 50 school.</p>
<p>So why ask?</p>
<p>One B does not really hurt your academic record. I've gotten a number of B's over the years, but they've been severely outnumbered by A's. Would it help me to be a 4.0 student? Probably. But the difference between, say, a 4.0 and a 3.95 is negligible. It's not like that one B will completely move you down from the level of "Straight-A Student" to "Good Student." Someone with all A's and someone with maybe two or three B's will appear very much the same, I believe, to an adcom.</p>
<p>So, don't sweat it. If you get a few B's, it probably won't hurt you much at all. Of course, it would be better to get all A's, but how much better is debatable. And I don't think there's a magic number where you turn from being an exceptional student to a good student – I think it's gradual.</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>EDIT: I'm just a high school senior, and there's a significant chance that what I wrote is more what I'd like to believe than what the system is actually like. But it seems right to me, anyhow.</p>
<p>to the OP:</p>
<p>I kinda understand your situation, as a prep school kid who more or less stayed in the B range for every math class he took in high school. I'd do fine in all other subjects, but math was killer. Not to sound elitist or anything, but I think colleges realize there's a huge range in the academic rigor of high schools, and if you go to an extremely competitive place then they'll understand.</p>
<p>Of course it all worked out in the end, with my ED acceptance this fall into my top choice school. Just don't get too stressed out about it like I did, because it isn't the end of the world by any means</p>
<p>Just an anecdote:</p>
<p>A UC Berkeley admissions person came to our school a few months back, and was asked this very question. She said she'd rather accept someone with a few B's and the rest A's than someone with straight A's, assuming all other things being equal, because the first person would have at least kind of known what it was like to "fail" a class. She said she'd seen too many people have nervous breakdowns when they reached Berkeley and received a C in a class.</p>
<p>My daughter earned two Bs in her mediocre public high school and still got into many fine schools including Harvard where she is currently a senior.</p>
<p>i don't think gettting B's in honors, gifted or AP classes are gonna hurt that much. what matters is when all the B's start outweighing the A's (which would suk)</p>
<p>you know the answer already...</p>
<p>Oh man, I love using this phrase: </p>
<p>Only on CC...</p>
<p>But I would like to say that if you must ask this kind of question to quell your anxiety, this is the way to ask it, as opposed to those who say, "How will colleges view my horrible grades?" when they're talking about one or two Bs.
Remind yourself of how many people there are who would give a lot to be in your position.</p>
<p>If you get a "B" in a difficult class, its not the end of the world. It's your GPA that matters. I got a "B" last year but I still had a 4.1 GPA. Trust me, don't panic. I've gotten a few of "B"s because I go to a really rigorous prep school. You life is not over and if one "B" is your problem, you should be fine.</p>
<p>I got a few B+'s in high school and I think I got into a few 'not-so-bad' colleges.</p>
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<p>Since everyone else has chewed you out, which was admittedly my first impulse, I will try to address your concern. I got 8 Bs in high school. I got into three universities that are in the US News Top 10 (the rankings are flawed, but I need some way, even a flawed one, to get the level across to you) and three other universities that are in the Top 20.</p>
<p>So based on my own experience, I don't think you need to be so concerned.</p>
<p>ye im getting into this situation a bit too. i've never gotten a B in HS yet, but senioritis has caused me to get a B in AP spanish and perhaps a B+ in AP calc bc this semester. i too am worried a bit, perhaps only in the calc because i've never gotten lower than an A+ in math, and a full grade drop might be troublesome for some adcoms. hopefully they'll take into account senioritis+added difficulty</p>
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I'd suggest you think about this way. Maintaining perfection is nearly improssible and if everytime you are less than perfect you become concerned than you will spend an awlful lot of life concerned. It sounds like you have a TERRIFIC academic record and are doing your best ... and that will lead to your getting into an excellent school ultimately ... so you really don't have anything to worry about.</p>