How important is it to have all A's?

[ProspectiveStudent42310]

I have a fairly strong application, 3.78 GPA, 160V, 170Q, 3.5AW, My leading recommender knows faculty at every university I'm applying to and we are working together to submit a paper by November, my other is publishing a LOT and I got an A+ in his graduate class, and my other is a professor I TA for that seems to really like me. The only problem is that freshman year I got a B+ in an honors accelerated calc class, and first semester sophomore year I got a B in honors discrete math and a B+ in diff eq. Does this ruin my chances of getting into a top 10 masters program? I got A's in every other computer science and math course I've taken. I only want to get into UT Austin, but I fear I may have ruined my chances by being lazy my freshman and sophomore year.

[fuzzylogician]

The only problem is that freshman year I got a B+ in an honors accelerated calc class, and first semester sophomore year I got a B in honors discrete math and a B+ in diff eq. Does this ruin my chances of getting into a top 10 masters program? 

No.

[Catria]

In fact, bad grades early on are more likely to be overlooked than bad grades late in the game.