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twinmom is correct about the AP tests not mattering.
Rosh, I frankly do not care if you think I am an idiot. I have word from both a student who works in the ad-office whose job in the last few months of the year is to 'process' HSers end of year reports (so the person doing the searching) and from an admissions officer (so the person doing the deciding) that if you are caught with Cs on your transcript you will be asked for an explanation. It's far from definite that you'll get caught (god knows the kids I know that work in the ad-office don't take their jobs uber-seriously) but if you do you will be asked for an explanation. Take it or leave it, but don't tell kids (or yourself) that it's ok to get Cs.
i got a 3 on an AP test last year as a junior, and i still got in. AP's don't matter.
Advice to all my fellow seniors: Just turn in all your work. If you atleast turn everything in, you should squeak by with a B-.
>>ok now it's getting ridiculous--so maybe C's aren't "fine" but I'm hard-pressed to believe one (or 2?) would get an admission revoked--considering the track record that would have gotten (sic) someone in<<
Not ridiculous at all. I personally know of two guys who managed to get rescinded for letting their grades slip. One got rescinded from UCSD for getting a D in calculus. The other was rescinded from Yale for getting two Cs. It's possible that Harvard's standards are a lot lower than Yale's, but somehow I doubt it. He was given a chance to offer a good explanation (such as illness or a death in the family) but he had none.
Why take chances with your dream opportunity that you have worked so long and hard to achieve? Make sure that you continue to be the same fine student that Harvard thought they admitted.
does harvard look at one's individual quarter grades, or just second semester? likewise, on the final school report that gets sent by july 1st, should we just list the overall second semester grade, or both from 3rd or 4th quarter? i know not all schools operate on a quarterly schedule, so maybe this isn't applicable to everyone.
also, as follow-up, would going from an A- in a given class 3rd quarter to a B- in that class 4th quarter be considered a "significant drop", or bring anything into question?
thanks for the response, but there's no need to be caustic. i do know what 'significant' means, but it can be a relative term, and i was simply curious because there have been differing opinions on the issue. that's all.
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