<p>Your grades will be fine. If you’re a STEM major, your GPA won’t be that different and the opportunities that you’ll take advantage of at each institution will be basically the same. It seems like you chose based on which school you preferred, which is what you should do.</p>
<p>And, can I just say that as a STEM major who attends Yale (and yes, who turned down Princeton), very few people at Yale care about latin honors. By the time such honors are announced, most people already have job offers or graduate school positions. Just focus in your classes, learn as much as you can, and your GPA will be a side product of all of that.</p>