<p>I'm usually a good student. I had a 4.0 unweighted GPA until my junior year. My junior year I took 4 APs (Chem, Bio, Calc BC, Government) and I still got all As with the exception of a B in Calc BC first semester. Second semester I got all As again, but the Calc BC teacher gave me a C. I'm thinking about trying to appeal this grade. The Calc BC teacher gave us an incredibly hard final exam, probably harder than the AP, a week after AP exams. I scored an 89 on that and still had a B in the class. However, the teacher was getting surgery and was also planning on retiring, so he decided to take an early retirement and leave right around the time the seniors were leaving. That left 3 juniors in the class. He gave each junior and "project" problem to complete and email to him. The problem was extremely hard, and I had no idea how to figure it out. I tried and ended up turning in the project a couple of days late showing the work I had done. I asked him to email me back when he received the email, but I never got a reply. Report cards came out, and he gave me a C-. I feel like this grade was completely unfair, as I had a solid B (85) before this project and then he gave me a C- when we were able to receive no help for this project. I think I should at least try to appeal it and get it to a B somehow, however, I don't know whether I have a case and how to exactly go about doing it. Also, could anyone tell me if it would hurt me significantly during admissions (I'm planning on applying to my major state universities, a safety, and then some selective colleges such as northwestern, georgetown, stanford). Let me know, and thanks for your help.</p>
<p>a C grade will DEFINITELY hurt you in admissions. appeal the grade, the teacher probably made a mistake or something</p>
<p>Turning in a project late isn’t going to earn you much sympathy. The leaving early and proposing a project for the juniors was weird though (was this mentioned in your course’s syllabus?). I don’t know much about your personal case from your post, but the fact that you turned in the project late makes me think that your grade probably won’t budge.</p>
<p>In our HS, all students (seniors and juniors) have to complete a project after the AP Calc BC exam. I think projects are only assigned after the exam. In fact, in all AP classes, students have projects to do after their exams. I guess the teacher “exempt” the seniors from doing the project in the same way that seniors are usually exempt from final exams (in many HSs). Turning in a project late usually has a huge penalty for each day late. Turning an assignment in several days late would have severe consequences. Good Luck. BTW, my son had a B in BC Calc and was admitted to several top schools. In our HS, only year end grades show up on the transcript. Will you have one grade for the year or will your transcript show both the B and the C-?</p>
<p>I would go straight to the administration. You have nothing to lose.</p>
<p>It seems to me that the grade might make sense? If you didn’t feel confident about your work on the project, and if your school’s late policy is anything like mine (-10% for each day late), and if the project was heavily weighted, it could bring an 85% B down to a C. </p>
<p>Appeal if you want to, and frankly, when parents get involved usually the student wins, but maybe consider that you got the grade that the rules say you should have gotten.</p>