How will a B in one semester affect admissions?

halcyonheather
Fri, 17 May 2013 15:18:54 +0000

For the record, 89.7 is definitely a B and colleges won’t consider it an A just because of how the high school weights. Whether or not colleges can tell you got a B in any part of the class depends on how your school calculates grades, though. If all they record is the average, all colleges will know about is that you got an A.

Nevertheless, it doesn’t matter. If a college rejects you with the B, they would have rejected you without it too.

And there’s never any reason to refer to yourself as a straight-A student in the first place (it doesn’t have an official definition or anything). You may as well just tell the person your GPA.