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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few more A minuses will really decrease the overall GPA and therefore the acceptances (from a top private--I don't know the public world).

My child had about half A minuses, half As and an overall GPA of 3.84.  He did significantly worse in admissions than kids who had fewer A minuses and an overall 3.94. 
My kid: into places like Michigan, UCLA, Emory, WashU.  Denied at lower ivies, etc. 
3.94 kids: HYP and other top 15s.

I'm not going to share specific extracurriculars but my kid's were really good.  Applied as a humanities major, had a narrative, testing was over the threshold (35), etc. The GPA (more A minuses) was really a huge differentiator. [/quote]

Michigan recalculates +/-  to the flat letter grade. B+s hurt, A- does not.

Cornell cares a lot about unexplained Cs.  We were told that at an admissions presentation.  Sounded fairly disqualifying barring a major life event.[/quote]

In the UC system, A- is recalculated to be the same as an A, and a B+ or B-  is recalculated to the same as a B. In other words, A- does no harm, B+ pulls down the GPA. Also they only look at 10th and 11th grade to calculate the UC GPA, and there is capped weighting for honors (you can’t weight more than 8 semesters with an extra +1 for honors or AP). Bizarrely, doing more than 8 honors weighted semesters will actually pull DOWN the UC GPA because any extras are averaged in as a 4. Combine that with UC Test blind policy, and over reliance on foreign grad students to
actually teach the courses
and you get much much overrated undeserved
reputation. [/quote]

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