<p>I am a student who works hard and I want to go to Stanford, Cornell, Berkeley, or Princeton.</p>
<p>This is my problem.</p>
<p>During my freshman year, I had two Cs at my previous IB high school in Malaysia.
Although I was the first in the class, converting my grades based on
the IB grading scale from 0 to 7 by simply multiplying 100 got me three Cs in my transcript.</p>
<p>I moved to the U.S. and have been studying in a private boarding school since sophomore. In sophomore year, I had all As with AP calculus and all honors classes. I thought my freshman grade would look okay at those institutions that I am applying to since it would be an upward trend.</p>
<p>During my junior year, the current year, I faced a really difficult APUSH teacher who has a record of having only 3As so far in his 8 years of teaching!! Unfortunately, I think I will end up with Bs for APUSH for both semesters.</p>
<p>Also, I have a B in calculus 3, multivariable Calculus, at Florida Institute of Technology - a private tech university - as a dual enrolled student. </p>
<p>So my question is, do I still stand chances at those institutions with this grade?</p>
<p>I know I will be in top 10% even with these Bs and Cs at the end because I have As for other dual enrollment classes and AP classes but I am concerned. </p>
<p>my cumulative GPA is 3.7 unweighted, 4.4 weighted
my GPA without freshman year is 3.9 unweighted, 4.7 weighted</p>
<p>please share your opinion about how much the grade weighs compared to the difficulty of classes.</p>