@glido I don’t need your sarcasm! And that would be a huge humiliation to my family.
@lookingforward This answer was pretty helpful and well balanced. I 100% acknowledge that thousands of applicants won’t have my fluke. I’ll just do well moving forward and change my thinking. I think that the good thing about my app would be my sustained passion and leadership experiences, but I assume many others have the same as well. I know that they have 40,000 apps on the table and can only take 2,000. I’m trying to match myself to the school’s values and show how I’d benefit from my time there in order to convince them why they should take me over all the 4.0’s.
Regarding the math grade, it ended up as an 89, which I’m a bit upset about. But I guess cutoffs exist in life and my teacher was completely justified in her unwillingness to round me up .1%. However, I do have a great relationship with her and she knows that I’m doing well. She wrote me a very good rec for summer programs.
Sorry I didn’t understand, but would a letter of rec from a physics teacher be more meaningful than one from a math teacher? I know I’m not on good grounds with my physics teacher right now, but I’m trying very hard to please him and maybe he can talk about improvement.