Stanford Admits...how many B's are too many?

cruncha22
Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:51:40 +0000

Right, the GPA says more. At my school, none of the top 5 kids got straight A’s either term this year…they’re taking a lot of AP’s…that’s why they are weighted…if you are #1 and you have 3 A’s and 3 B+'s and the B+'s are AP’s, you have nothing to apologize for…think about yourself as an adcom: you see the grades, a flag goes up, you look at the class rank and/or the hs’s policy, and it is understood. Just do your best and hope. Nobody said life was fair. (although I think anyone who tried this hard through 13 years of school kinda believed it was…that was a lot of effort to put into this big crap shoot…if I knew it was this ridiculous, I would have taken easier courses, partied more,etc. I tell my siblings to kick back cuz the payoff is so unlikely. Call me morbid, but I don’t think I could even be that happy if I got into any of these schools anymore, cuz I see it as so random…I’d feel like I won a coin toss, not like I had been rewarded for my big efforts.)