Would this be bad for Admissions?

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<p>I'm a junior in high school.
I'm very interested in going to Grinnell College 2013 Fall (planning on early decision), and I had a few questions.</p>

<p>I recently moved from a fairly big town to a very small town. Being a small town school, the current school I am attending doesn't provide very rigorous classes. My G.P.A. wasn't the best at my old school (3.5ish?), but I took fairly rigorous classes. (AP Biology [all A's], Chemistry Honors[A, B, A], Pre Calculus Honors as a Sophomore [I got 2 B's and 1 C on my trimester grades though....:(], English 10 Honors[all B's], etc...). But here, the highest english course for 11th grade is American Studies (history and literature combined into 2 periods). I already took American Studies (History) my freshman year as a required for my old school. I am getting great grades (high A's + above 100%). But I'm scared that I might not have enough course rigor.</p>

<p>They also provide online classes, and I took AP Calculus AB Semester 1, but I got a C grade on it.... :(</p>

<p>How does this affect my chances?
Please Respond!</p>

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<p>oh my god you are fine! those are great grades in tough classes. You’ll get in easy i guarantee</p>

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<p>Check Grinnell’s Common Data Set (google it) to get a realistic assessment of how you are doing relative to the profile of admitted students. </p>

<p>And don’t worry about how rigorous your school is - the expectation is that you will take the most rigorous coursework available, so if APs aren’t offered at the school, you aren’t expected to have them on your transcript. That said, if they are offered on-line and you take the course and don’t do well, you might want to reconsider going this route in this particular subject area next semester. One ‘C’ isn’t fatal but you clearly haven’t mastered the material, so you might want to consider dropping to a lower level of math that moves a bit more slowly so you have a solid grounding.</p>