From an adcom's eyes?

ChasingStarlight
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:38:34 +0000

I’m not fluent in spanish. I’m just fluent in other languages, which has nothing to do with the grade. As far as the top notch student thing goes, nothing is bad enough to get me eliminated-- still a good enough GPA (barely, but like a 3.8 UW, 4.3 W after midyears), definitely a good enough SAT score. But there are several things that jsut don’t make sense - I just didn’t know if I wanted to give explanations through the extra info thing or through my guidance counselor. We only send out year grades, not semester grades, and our grades are converted into a strange point system with weighted quarters and stuff where a 35-40 is A, 25-34 is B, 15-24 is C, and so forth. As you can see, getting an A is pretty tough comparatively. Sadly, we don’t send out +'s and -'s and the only regular B I’ve gotten is in honors physics.

The B’s this year were all caused by a two week period where I basically blew every test due to mental issues and just too much stress.

Juillet, it’s just an opinion question – thanks. I know that if I saw this, I’d be pretty confused so I wondered if others would be too.

And yeah the grade- ap score correlation is basically explained by the ridiculous amount of variation our school has between AP teachers. I’m missing an A in spanish because my teacher gave me a C in participation ( 50 points worth of how much she likes you) and a one in chemistry because I effed up a test that I missed the information learned because I was chairing a Model UN conference. Last year, the two B’s I got were in spanish and bio and those were the two classes that had prerequisites from my old school (oh, and my chance in spanish was blown because of participation again by the same ridiculous teacher… who I will not have next year)-- the only think I learned there was that North Carolina public schools suck.