Hello everyone & thanks @JBStillFlying for posting this link on the NMF thread. As usual, I didn’t know this thread had been started, but I’m glad to be with you all now!!!
We’ll be one of the guinea pig cases this time around as D has one of those (dare I say it?) semester “C” grades on her transcript for first semester, junior year AP Calc BC. Like @GoAskDad, I’m a hardened veteran that also had a S15 with a single semester “C,” and he made it through to NMF as well.
So, my gut tells me that D18 will be fine as she followed-up that 1st semester “C” with a 2nd semester grade of “A” in that class. A while back, @JBStillFlying calmed my nerves a bit by suggesting that perhaps they look at the whole thing as a “yearly” grade & if that’s the case, she averages a “B” for the course. I guess this is still one of those nebulous parts of the process that we still can only speculate on.
Even with that scarlet letter of a “C” hanging around her neck, she still has a 3.8/4.6 with great test scores, extracurriculars, work history, awards, rec letter, etc.
For what it’s worth, S15’s GPA was 3.5/4.2 & his extracurriculars and other accolades were OK, but nothing that would make the selection committee sit-up and take notice.
Well, there’s nothing we can do about it now, so we’ll see…