Ivies and GPA

hinsdale1
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:12:34 +0000

They don’t count how many B’s you have. GPA is just a single factor considered along with your SAT’s, SAT II, courseload, APs, rigor of your highschool, class rank,etc - to determine if you meet the academic threshold for admission. Thousands meet the academic threshold at the most elite schools with lots of B’s.

I believe that many of the elite schools are not looking for applicants obsessed over grades (who use one of their essay responses to try to explain the horrible events that caused them to receive their sngle B grade sophmore year). Go live life, show your passion for life and your community outside of the classroom. Learn to write better. These are things more likely to be determinative in elite school admission rather than whether you got 4 B’s or 9 B’s or 0 B’s.