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IT DEPENDS ON THE SCHOOL'S RIGOR AND THE GRADES OF YOUR CLASSMATES.

If you're in public, where a fifth of the school gets straight As, yes, a B will penalize you, unless it's in AP Physics C, or multivariable calc (and you're not trying to get into MIT).

If you're in a rigorous private, where only top students get straight A, a couple of Bs might still be fine, especially if they're in advanced courses.

Know your school.[/quote]

This is the only answer that matters! It is Rigor, then grades, in that order of importance (ie slightly lower grades but TOP/max rigor is always better than slightly higher grades and less rigor), and both of these only matter in the context of the high school! [/quote]

+1. Class rank is paramount, and, yes the college AO readers can determine your kids' rank using your kid's transcript and the high school profile the HS sends - even umif you high. school claims not to rank[/quote]
Thus the claims by high schools that they don't rank are a joke. Of course they rank and most kids figure it out, often too late, when they are filling out their apps and looking at the School Profile.

What is irksome is that colleges pretend rank is some sort of standardized metric. It can never be that.[/quote]

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