<p>I know that chances threads are never accurate because you don’t know everything about the person, including their essays, but there are sertain things that can immideitly rule our acceptance. For example if you get a 400 in math and apply to yale, even if you have amazing other things, you can almost garente you won’t get in. You need a sertain bottom line. So here goes, do my grades nullify any other good things I may have on my application:</p>
<p>(9th grade)
All A’s in extremely advanced honors courses BUT beacuse i was at a different school the college won’t be seeing my grades and they dont’ factor into my GPA at all. I think my guidence coucelor mentiuoned this in her recomendation, but still, it’s not on my transcript.</p>
<p>10th grade
AP calc BC - B
Honors English - A
Honors chem - A
Honors world civ - B
Orchestra - A
Honors Latin (with seniors) - A</p>
<p>11th grade (and the decent takes place)
AP Chem - B (gahhh it was a 89.7 for the year)
AP Stats - B (same deal, 89.5)
Honors Physics - B
Honors English - A
AP American Studies - B
Advanced Honors Latin - A</p>
<p>12th grade (couldn’t get my schedual right so got stuck in non honors french)
AP Physics- I may have an A or a B
AP Bio - B
AP Enlgish - A
AP American Studies - either A or B
French 1 - A</p>
<p>So my other stuff is strong, very good Sats, lots of extra cericulars strong esseys etc, but i mean that’s for them to decide. But do my stats completley rull me out? I just miss the top 10% i’m probably like 11% i guess.</p>
<p>“So here goes, do my grades nullify any other good things I may have on my application”</p>
<p>If you look at the statistics of enrolled students at Chicago, you will see that last year about 17% of enrolled students were below top ten percent. My guess is that about 12-14% of admitted students were below top ten percent. So, you should certainly have a shot. Grades are an important piece of the puzzle - but not the whole thing.</p>
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<li><p>If those grades put you around the 89th percentile at your school, I doubt they will rule you out. Grades get considered in the context of your school.</p></li>
<li><p>This is just a message board, so no biggie. But if you typed your application the way you typed your question . . . well, that could come close to ruling you out. I think everyone expects a few typos, from high school students and adults. But you have a serious problem with spelling. If English is your first language, and if you don’t have a diagnosed learning disability – and even if it isn’t and you do – you ought to get into the habit of paying a little more attention to it. People CAN look past a bunch of misspellings to consider your ideas, but misspellings make your ideas look much less intelligent than they are. And, as you get older, people will be less and less willing to look past the errors.</p></li>
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<p>I was so busy being snippy last night that I forgot to provide my one crumb of useful advice: Maybe you want to get your old school to send a transcript to the colleges to which you have applied. One of my children switched schools between 10th and 11th grade. Her old grades WERE included on her new transcript (where they looked really bad, since she went from a school where there were no AP or honors courses and a B+ average put you in the top 10% to one where a B+ average in non-AP courses put you around the 50th percentile). We were advised by various admissions people to have both transcripts sent to the colleges. Even though the GC recommendation and the transcript itself noted the school change, there was more information on the old school’s transcript than was included in the new school’s transcription of it, and the fact of having both transcripts in the file ensured that the admissions officers would notice it and pay attention to it.</p>
<p>Agree with JHS about the first year transcript. Even if the GPA went down a little, its likely better to have more A’s smiling that the adcoms. It also means that first year was good … not a mystery!</p>
<p>About the spelling … that is a concern, but too late to do anything. I hope the OP ran everything through spell check.</p>
<p>yeah, don’t worry everything on my app was spelled right, I had lots of teachers go over it, and basically online I’m such a quick and careless speller. Thank you for the concern though, lol. but honestly everything was ok on the app.</p>
<p>Also, Chicago admissions doesn’t exactly work like other schools in that the essay counts for much more. So if you work at that you can dramatically improve your chances :)</p>