From an adcom's eyes?

juillet
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:10:48 +0000

These questions are always amusing to me. We’re not mind readers, and different admissions committee members will react to this information in different ways - how is anyone here supposed to what conclusions they would draw from this?

I can tell you what I would think. I would think that a B is a good grade and that you must have learned the material really well in chem to get a 5, and that 4s are also good scores and show that you are qualified to handle college-level work in that area. Same conclusions with U.S. history and biology.

If you are fluent in Spanish and getting Bs in the class I might assume that you weren’t doing your homework or something. If you have one bad semester, I would assume that something happened that semester that caused your grades to plunge – if your first and second years are stellar and your third year was mediocre, I would first assume that something happened, but then I would wonder whether it was something serious (like a death in the family) or something…not so serious (like loss of interest).