<p>I feel that everyone says that a negative, down-sloped trend of grades is bad. If the truth be told, I don't think the adcoms care.</p>
<p>you're absolutely WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG!</p>
<p>no, really. they do care. i'd care if i were the student. :) but i'm curious as to why you think they don't care.</p>
<p>Seriously though, I don't think a college rep would spend more than like 5-10 minutes on an application, including essays. It seems like they don't like over analyze your application like some people think. I may be wrong, I may be right. :-)</p>
<p>well, they do take about 20-30 minutes on an app. and strong ones can take up to 40 minutes. and a downward trend is easily noticeable. so is a D.</p>
<p>I dunno...40 minutes...even with Harvard, I'd have to disagree. I think these ad coms have lives...and 16,000 students is a lot to spend time on...!</p>
<p>well that is what their job.is and there are plenty of em to look for. more than 2/3rd are direct rejection based on stats well below low...the others that are left after screening are read carefully and the stuff stands. analysis is done and also a careful one.......</p>
<p>really, glucose, they do take that long. can someone please confirm my statement?</p>
<p>they can if the app is strong....</p>
<p>depends. are you taking much harder classes compared to the first year? is it going from a 3.85 to a 3.8 or more like a 4.0 to a 2.0? most schools would rather see a B in an AP class than an A in home ec.</p>
<p>According to a Stanford adcom, each application gets about 20 minutes on the first read-through. When the easy sorting has been done and they are mulling over who gets the last few spots, I'm sure those on bubble at that point get a harder look.</p>
<p>But to the original point, I'm sure that a downward grade trend will be noticed. The adcoms are pros - how could they miss something like that? Grades are the single most important factor on your app. And a downward trend will not be in your favor. Doesn't mean you can't get in, but it does mean you will have to have a good explanation for the trend or other outstanding achievements to compensate for it.</p>
<p>i've gotten straight As(90~100) 9,10 year.
would getting like 2~3 B+ (90~94) in junior year be noticeable in admission and have any bad effect in the ivy/top schools admission?</p>
<p>i've gotten B+ on the subjects i think is my biggest strength.
but i have moved across continent in junior year and there is a difference in grading scale between the schools. </p>
<p>i kno it's not a big problem but would they just overlook the grade deflation (since it's like 0.15 :D)????</p>
<p>smartmind, I'm not so sure about them automatically rejecting 2/3...
MIT says something like 80% of their applicants are qualified grade and score-wise.</p>
<p>coz that's MIT... not a teeny meeny place to be........</p>
<p>And even in MIT ..they have other trends and standards to abide by....</p>
<p>they have the eye of a gemologist to pick the gud ones at 1st glance</p>