<p>At the end of this year, I am realistically looking at a dismal 3.67 UW GPA, and the worse part is that 3 of the B's are in a science, 2 are in a math, and 1 is in computer science. All of them though are really close to an A- (1 87, 1 88, and 3 89's). The only reason I do worse in the math and sciences at my school is that they are much harder classes than the humanity ones, but teach us well and prepare us well (such as my confidence on getting 5's in APCS and AP Chem).</p>
<p>Will MIT throw me out right away despite great EC's, recommendations, and 2180 SAT and great SAT II's? I'm 11th in my class of 386 and have the most rigorous courseload possible. Help?</p>
<p>No, you won’t be thrown out of the running for that.</p>
<p>I got 3 B’s in all of my high school career. One was in freshman biology, freshman environmental science, and freshman geometry. </p>
<p>Getting a B in math/science will not “throw you out.” </p>
<p>*I didn’t get any B’s in any of my actual AP classes</p>
<p>To be more specific, I got B’s in Honors Algebra I (frosh), AP Biology (junior), and lots of things as a senior (though I was accepted early, so I suppose that doesn’t count) – and the majority of my classes were not science or math because my school didn’t offer much.</p>
<p>Seriously, B’s will not ruin an otherwise awesome application. (Blerg, I hate saying that. B’s <em>are</em> awesome, but MIT makes everyone’s views so skewed.)</p>
<p>On a different note, since I know nothing about admissions here, but purely on a common sense level – is your school just really nitpicky? I think a large number of B’s in fundamental math, science and CS should require explanation, unless your school is unreasonably picky and doing better would be a matter of putting in energy that could better go towards something else.</p>
<p>I had a ~3.7 unweighted GPA but a 5.4 weighted GPA. IIRC, your weighted GPA matters way more anyway - does your school weight?</p>
<p>if you are asian or a white male with those stats, you probably have no shot anyway</p>
<p>Well yes, the only science/math/CS class I’ve had that wasn’t picky I got a 90 in. I mean they are good teachers, but at time can be very picky. My pre-cal teacher this year doesn’t give partial credit, even though the problems are easy, a negative sign instead of being positive makes the whole problem wrong.</p>
<p>My school does weight and I have a 4.516 out of 5.4, but people who go to Harvard/MIT/other great schools get from 4.8-5.0</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys :D</p>