How badly will I be affected by a 3.9 semester GPA?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Descuff-
Explore the link, Grasshopper.</p>

<p>I should also point out my typo. I should have written that those are the class of '14 Princeton admit percentages for students with GPAs in those ranges. In other words, 85.2 percent of applicants with a 4.0 average didn’t get in, 6.2 percent of students with a 3.8-3.89 average were admitted, etc.</p>

<p>My point in posting the link was to try to combat two misconceptions:
A. that a flawless GPA is a ticket to the Ivies and
B. that the Ivies only want kids with perfect 4.0s.</p>

<p>For more Princeton admit stats:
<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/Profile_10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/Profile_10.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“At some point, you’re going to want to care about the grades you get in college.”</p>

<p>Obviously I was exaggerating to an extent. But I’m certainly not going to be upset over a B the way I am in high school. High school is designed so that even the kids who don’t care and won’t study can pass. It’s not that difficult to meet high school requirements, so getting a B makes me feel stupid. But college is intended to be challenging.</p>

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<p>Wow. 85% is huge. :&lt;/p>

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<p>^That’s why all of the stressing over getting into an Ivy, is kind of… Unnecessary. 90% (or more) of the people who apply will get a rejection letter. It’s estimated that 85% of people who apply to Ivies are well qualified (meaning high GPA, SATs, etc.)</p>

<p>If you want a more fair chance at admission, you might want to look into a place like Boston University. They have a 58% acceptance rate, but most of the kids who apply/get in, are highly qualified <a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/boston-university-gpa-sat-act.htm[/url]”>http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/boston-university-gpa-sat-act.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>To put the idea about a 3.7 GPA in perspective, at CMU you’d be considered near legend.</p>

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<p>^That’s insane. ⊙﹏⊙ Guess I should be ready to work hard. Lol</p>

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<p>So basically you telling me to do what I don’t really do now and that is study in college… Gotcha.</p>

<p>Sent from my LG-VM696 using CC</p>

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<p>I mean, CMU is an intense school workload-wise. There are others that are more intense workload wise. You apply to these top schools having that in mind.</p>

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<p>A 3.9 isn’t even something that you need to “make up for” unless you’re taking ridiculously easy classes. It’s great, now please stop worrying.</p>