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[quote=Anonymous]From first-hand experience: it also depends on the school your DC is in now.  If you're at a school that's known for its academic rigor, if your kid is taking the toughest curriculum available, and assuming everything else in DC's application is strong (top test scores etc), then a couple or even a few B's or B+'s in the toughest classes is not disqualifying, even (or maybe especially) at the very very top colleges.  Those colleges don't have strict and inflexible GPA cut-offs, and they have admissions staff who know the schools here, and who know what a B+ in, say, the very top math curriculum at School X really means.  As with most things: no hard-and-fast rule, no definite answer.  But if I had to say, I would say if you are at a really rigorous high school, you are better off earning a handful of B-type grades in the toughest curriculum than you are sailing through a less demanding course load with all A's. The notion that you were willing to challenge and push yourself, even in the face of less-than-perfect results, is quite powerful.  Now, the more B's, the harder it is to make your case; but there is flexibility.  [/quote]

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