<p>Ok I need to know someone feels the same way. I've always gotten A's but I'm a junior and as 4th quarter set in I REALLY started to slack off and got a B in calc. Of course my final grade is still an A and that's all my transcript will show, but I'm still really upset. This B really affects nothing AT ALL. I have no idea why it makes me upset. Does anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p>No. I’ve gotten B’s before…it’s really no big deal. B means good on the grading scale, it’s still above average (C means average). Plus, it’s your own fault, not like the teacher screwed you out of an A, so really, there’s nothing to be upset about.</p>
<p>Like if you get one B, it conditions your mind to think that getting more B’s are okay.</p>
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<li>People who have had more than one B usually aren’t bothered by them, but when you get the first one it’s like a single blemish on an otherwise perfect record and it stands out to you more than it otherwise would. Once you have a B that counts you can no longer have an unweighted 4.0, and there’s something slightly disappointing about that.</li>
<li>You start worrying that you’ll get more in the future. You start thinking the fact that it’s not on your transcript was just a narrow escape.</li>
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<p>My unweighted gpa is still 4.0 lol our gpa only counts final grades</p>
<p>There’s still that one time when you didn’t get an A. Same difference except you can pretend it never happened.</p>
<p>A “B” is a drop-kick to your GPA, believe it or not. No matter how many AP classes you’re going to take, if you’re racing for valedictorian, it does not provide the cure.</p>
<p>–At my school, it hurts you more to take “regular” classes that ruin your GPA than an AP class helps raise your GPA… Yes. A lot of valedictorians play the Pass/Fail game without having to play the max AP game… It’s rageworthy–how their GPA still turns out higher than a max AP straight A student (yet if they played both games they’d be in the 4.9s).</p>
<p>It’s not really a big deal.</p>
<p>It really is not a big deal, lots of people get Bs and still get into great colleges.</p>
<p>If your final grade’s an A, it especially doesn’t matter besides what halcyonheather’s saying about worrying about actually getting a B as your final grade in the future. But they’re still not a big deal.</p>
<p>Sounds like it was a wake up call that you may want to change how you were handling your time/class requirements.
Does earning a B make you a bad person…or someone who has “failed”…in the scheme of things-NO. Especially if that B reflected your very best. If it didn’t reflect your very best, then only you can decide if that is matching the expectations of yourself.</p>
<p>Because it’s possible to do better without being considered abnormally good.</p>
<p>You don’t see people getting upset over scoring less than 120 on the Putnam.</p>
<p>GPA doesn’t matter as much as you think. Colleges get so many applicants you have to do something amazing if you want to have more than a crapshot at getting in.</p>
<p>Because Harvard only accepts people with 4.0s.</p>
<p>I’d only start to worry if you got a B for your final grade. I’m a straight A student and current valedictorian but I have gotten B’s on Final Exams/Quarter Grades, but I’d never get a B as a semester grade that factors into a GPA. So don’t worry about it, your still a straight A kid</p>
<p>I got 2 B’s this year, quarter grades. One became a B semester grade. Everything was an A as a final grade. Not sure how GPA is calculated at my school. </p>
<p>I didn’t realize it was a big deal until I found CC. 2 B’s won’t hurt me in the long run, will it?</p>
<p>^ Chill. Getting B’s still isn’t a big deal, before or after CC. Drink some lemonade and go watch T.V.</p>
<p>@awesome1114, Really, whoever thinks getting B’s is a big deal needs to take a nap. I really don’t know where this “I-need-to-get-all-A’s-if-I-don’t-I’m-screwed” mentality came from, but it has to stop. God forbid if any of you guys get C’s… The egos of some students just tickle me half the time. I think someone mentioned that a B means above average, but I guess being above average means nothing, right?</p>