How much can amazing recs help?

iLiveOnCC
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:11:46 +0000

Just wondering, since I am getting recs from two teachers who taught classes that I got Bs in (both during junior year). Those Bs really ruined my junior year GPA, but my teachers really like me and I’m sure that they’ll write very good recs. If those teachers write really good recs for me and say that I worked very hard and was very active in their classes, will my Bs be able to be overlooked? Because I wanted to get a 4.0 during junior year to have a good upward trend (I had horrible freshman + sophomore years), but those 2 classes were really hard so my GPA was still not very good.