<p>Hello to all of you,</p>
<p>I was curious, for current students/alumni/or whoever else is reading this. Does everyone who gets into Princeton, or any other highly selective school for that matter, have a high school GPA of a 4.0? Is it be possible to get into Princeton with B’s on your transcript in conjunction with a hook, good test scores, extracurriculars, and essays? Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>Depends on how many Bs. If you only have one or two it won’t matter as long as the rest of your application is good.</p>
<p>Not all are 4.0 GPA. However, your asking that question is a bad indication of your knowledge of elite schools’ evaluation criteria. You should take some time to see the types of things they are looking in their candidates. Certainly they want top academic achievers. Is 4.0 the only indication of this? Is this your thinking?</p>
<p>Your even assuming that only 4.0 students get admitted worries me about your knowledge here…</p>
<p>I had a 3.7 or thereabouts. For the record, no one at my high school had a perfect GPA.</p>
<p>T26E4- You are correct, I don’t know anything about what colleges are looking for, which is why I am asking this question, so I can have more knowledge about the admissions process. But, thank you for the first sentence of your response</p>
<p>If you look on Princeton’s admission website, you can see that 14.1% of accepted students had 4.0’s.</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University | Admission Statistics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/)</p>
<p>So no, not everyone had 4.0’s (that includes me). My counselor told me that your school’s profile also plays a major role in how GPA’s are assessed. Just Princeton has grade deflation, some high schools have more rigorous grading standards. Thus, a 3.9 from a difficult high school might be better than a 4.0 from an easier school.</p>
<p>I think the 14.1% means that 14.1% of people who had 4.0’s got accepted. First of all those percentages don’t add up anywhere near 100%, and I think more than 14.1% of people accepted had 4.0’s.</p>
<p>Who do you think is more likely to achieve something in life:</p>
<p>Someone with a 4.0 and mediocre extracurriculars</p>
<p>Someone with a 3.95 (B’s in music and PE) and represented USA in the international chemistry olympiad?</p>
<p>I totally agree with the previous responses.</p>
<p>I can tell you that in the 45 year history of my high school there has NEVER been a person with a perfect unweighted GPA…just as ridiculous as it sounds - never. With that said, I would like to also add that, nevertheless, people have gone to Ivy’s, people have gone to Oxbridge, people have gone to JHU for pre-med…and so forth. </p>
<p>I don’t have a perfect GPA either, although my IB (4HL/2SL) prediction was a 44 - exactly, a 6 in my school means a B. Is a 6 really equal to an average US high school B - heck NO. </p>
<p>GPA matters. But there is a big BUT…only in the context of your high school and graduating class profile. A GPA of 3.80 at a mega-competitive school often means much more in terms of academics than a 4.00 at a mediocre school…</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Bottom line - chill out…don’t sweat a B. It (if it’s only that B and not a plethora of them, dominating your high school profile) will not kill you. :)</p>
<p>I had a few B’s here and there but I was the valedictorian. Your class rank and your school’s quality/grading policy will have far more of an impact than any one number.</p>
<p>I know kids at my school who have gotten 2400 but don’t have much above 3.0</p>
<p>Super grade deflated…</p>