<p>I was wondering what colleges accept students with B’s, that are still good</p>
<p>Um…plenty of them.</p>
<p>This is especially true for private schools students, whose work is generally held to a higher standard.</p>
<p>Getting a B in Spanish II sophomore year is not going to kill you. The weighted grade scheme (which makes no sense to me) inflates everyone’s GPA. Odds are these kids are making Bs/B+s and being credited with As.</p>
<p>Don’t let a few Bs discourage you from applying to a top tier college. If you have other things to recommend you (strong ECs, good essays, etc.) there’s not reason you don’t have a shot.</p>
<p>ah, that small yet brilliant light called hope.</p>
<p>How many B’s? In what kind of classes? And how is rank affected? </p>
<p>I had 9 B’s on my transcript, and still managed to a) be ranked 14/770 and b) get accepted into 5 top tier schools, including two top 10 LAC’s, and 3 universities with either a scholarship, honor’s program distinction, or both. I was also waitlisted by 2 Ivies and rejected by 2 Ivies, but I can pretty much guarantee you that that had NOTHING to do with the 9 B’s. </p>
<p>Now, if you have a bunch of B’s and your rank really has suffered for it, than that is a slightly different story–but you could still get into good, top tier schools, depending on how low your rank is (top 25% is tougher but possible at most schools, less than that is rough).</p>
<p>well i am ranked 32/568 right now, i have a few b’s but i take all honors classes</p>
<p>Well, than I would say that your B’s won’t hurt you very much at all. Of course, better grades and a higher rank are always better, and I have seen some (minor :)) evidence that top 5% rank is the most preferred, so if I were you that’s the benchmark that I would focus on. But that class rank more than qualifies you for any school.</p>
<p>Here are several schools that are 1st tier national schools that will take students with mostly B +/A- averages.<br>
Ill list them according the the highest ranks in US News that u may have a chance in: </p>
<ul>
<li>Tulane University: #44. I know several ppl with 3.0’s that got in this year. - -Penn State: #47</li>
<li>UCSB: #47</li>
<li>Florida, only if fl resident cause admissions is tough on OOS’ers. </li>
<li>Syracuse: #52</li>
<li>Maryland- College Park: #54</li>
<li>UMiami (Fl): #54</li>
<li>Boston University: #55</li>
<li>Ohio State: #58</li>
<li>Texas A&M: #60</li>
</ul>
<p>OK I listed till top 60.
u havea good shot at these depending on ur SAT scores though. generally for all of those schools except mayby OSU, A&M and Maryland, u should aim for a 1150-1200 range (Cr+M).</p>
<p>Anyways I listed a pretty good set of schools, however i just grabbed a US News magazine and listed the highest ranked schools ud have a shot at. make sure to check out the scene, environments etc of these schools.
I only listed 1st tier top national universities rather than liberal arts colleges cause I know little about them.</p>
<p>acarta, I feel that the OP’s rank is good enough that it would not disqualify him/her from any school. I would point to my initial post as proof (although I would say that my unweighted GPA was 3.82, which is still an A/A- average, I believe).</p>
<p>B’s for quarter/semester grades or B’s for the entire year? i’ve been wondering (and worrying) about that.</p>
<p>At my private school, Syracuse is a place you apply to if you’re at the middle/towards the bottom of the class.</p>
<p>Your Bs also depend on what classes you’re taking. If you got a B in Calculus no one will be upset with you.</p>
<p>If you want to look at my example, I got semester B’s in these classes (testing my memory here!): H Bio, H English I (Twice…teacher was an extremely tough grader), H Alg II/Trig (Twice…horrendous teacher), H World History, H Chem, H Physics, AP BC Clac. </p>
<p>It’s worth noting that all but the last three were during freshmen year, and that science was/is my worst subject, but that I always pulled it together to get an A(-) second semester. As I said before, being that I ended up being ranked 14/770, this clearly wasn’t too bad of a performance for my school! 
(BTW, my unweighted rank still would have been 24/770, so there really weren’t a bunch of people getting better absolute grades than I was).</p>
<p>In terms of super-elite schools, MIT seems to care less about grades, thus plenty of kids get in with a few or more B’s, although since it’s so selective, this just means more kids with straight A’s getting rejected.</p>
<p>Indeed…the valedictorian of my school was rejected from MIT (35 ACT, too). And I wasn’t surprised…he had mediocre extras, is a guy, is only an okay writer, and, imo, probably couldn’t hide the reality that he was much more interested in getting straight A’s than learning. That isn’t to say that he wasn’t smart or that I didn’t like him, but sometimes it’s not so hard to see why a straight A student is rejected.</p>
<p>There’s actually an article in the College Edition of the USNWR that talks about this very subject.</p>
<p>Yea theres an article but u need membership to see it. anyways like I said, I listed the highest ranked choices the applicant would have a chance in with a B+/A- average. Theres a ton more. most if not all the schools on the 1st tier schools ranked 110-50 are all possible schools.</p>
<p>^^ with a class rank of 32/568 he can aim higher than that, even at schools ranked 20-10 only ~85% of students are in the top 10% of their high school class, and he’s well into the top 10% of his.</p>