<p>top 30-70 is what I consider a great public school! not even one from my state makes the top 100</p>
<p>^Exactly my thoughts.</p>
<p>@Mollie: Are B+s viewed any different from Bs? My teachers give either As, Bs, or Cs. No + or -…some teachers actually. Some actually bother to give D+s…lol.
Also, I got the following Bs…Are they bad for MIT? Or any college for that sort? I hear Caltech views Bs in math/science courses negatively…</p>
<p>Sophomore yr: AP Stats A/B+ French A-/B-
Junior Yr: AP Physics A/B
Senior first semester (major senioritis…I’ve yet to officially get my grades for the midyear report): AP Chem B…and I’ll probably get a B+ in AP English.</p>
<p>When I showed my grades to my EC MIT interview he just glanced at it and said I was good to go. lol. but I just wanted to make sure…getting Bs in AP classes seems really bad, but I just slacked off.</p>
<p>I go to an ehh public school that offers like 13 AP courses.</p>
<p>No idea. They were different to me, but I went to a fairly grade-inflated public high school.</p>
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<p>LOL. You’re not allowed to get senioritis until 2nd semester. Don’t you know that?</p>
<p>0 B’s but I might get a B+ in calc if I don’t do well on the midterm. UGH!!! This will kill my application. :(</p>
<p>I didn’t get any but I’m mighty close now in a few classes second semester senior year. I was accepted and now a serious case of senioritis has set in, 3 hours of calculus to do and not nearly enough time or concentration to actually accomplish anything.</p>
<p>3Bs (1 second semester junior year-Spanish 3, 2 first semester senior year-Spanish 4 and AP Physics)
1C (Second semester senior year-AP Physics)</p>
<p>So yes, you can suck at physics and still get into MIT</p>
<p>^lol but I don’t suck at physics :[ I was the best student in the entire class…but he still gave me a B…because his grading system is either a 0 or a 100% in each objective.</p>
<p>No one got an A for that semester lol.</p>
<p>I never got anything lower than an A (not even an A-) in 7th through 12th grades. I went to a pretty easy school with a lot of grade inflation. There were 79 people in my graduating class, and I was one of 6 valedictorians who all had 4.0 unweighted (never even got an A-). It was pretty stressful, because even though I took much harder classes than anyone else, my class rank would have been screwed by just one A-.</p>
<p>High schools really need to stop the grade inflation and switch to weighted GPAs. Unweighted GPAs are not an accurate measure of performance, and grade inflation conditions kids to be perfectionists.</p>
<p>None (son accepted EA last year).</p>
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<p>Yep, but EC’s shouldn’t really care about grades. Keep in mind that the interview is designed to cover things that do not appear elsewhere on the application. Your grades are one of those things that do appear elsewhere on the application. </p>
<p>If a candidate brought their grades along to one of my interviews, I wouldn’t even look at them, or to be polite, I might glance very briefly at them, say something disarming like “You’re good to go” and cover the material that I am supposed to deal with at the interview.</p>
<p>^My EC told me to bring it, so I did.
My friend from my school had the same interviewer, and he…doesn’t really have good grades (Lots of Bs and one C). He told me the interviewer looks all “wide-eyed” and “meh-looking” when he saw my friend’s transcript.</p>
<p>But to me, he said “looking good here” and he moved on lol. So I was just wondering if MIT kinda does the same. AFter all, with 1000+ applicants, I wouldn’t be surprised.</p>
<p>I never had a B in my high school career until 1st semester of my senior year. 2 out of 8 classes. this didn’t really matter because MIT does not require mid-year reports for EA admitted.</p>
<p>I’m still in high school, but I haven’t had a B my entire career thus far.</p>
<p>Im an int. applicant, got 5 B’s out of 27 courses.</p>
<p>B in:</p>
<p>PE
Religon
Swedish B
Esthetics
Web design</p>
<p>honestly from what I hear MIT receives many perfect transcripts every year, most of these transcripts have straight A’s in all math and science classes. although MIT looks at other factors there is no denying that it puts you at a disadvantage to recieve B’s in Math/Science courses as those are staples for most MIT applicants.</p>
<p>@md5hash: Of course. Brilliant applicants with extremely high stats always like prestigious universities :)</p>
<p>No B’s for me. Only E’s and F’s. =/</p>
<p>I think only those who feel good about their grades are posting here >_>;</p>
<p>So just to make the non-posting applicants feel better, (edit: ahh, I keep miscounting, forget it… but anyway I have a few Bs and, yes, Es in sciences over these years and a D in a humanities subject). Think my rank was 6/939; and I didn’t go below the top decile before. (Edit: And so yeah… maybe some consolation for me.)</p>
<p>@pfaocltd: Some people not confident about their grades don’t want to post here. But it doesn’t mean that they are worse than those posting here 
People can be stupefied when looking at my transcript, and even more shocked when knowing that I did get many Bs, some Es, a few Ds and Fs. So you still want some consolation? :D</p>