I’m a soon-to-be college senior currently enrolled in some part-time online summer class at a different college, hoping that I can graudate earlier. But one of the classes became surprisingly hard and although I tried, I will probably still fail it as a result. I currently have a cumulative GPA of 3.4 and Major GPA of 3.6 in a top 50 US university, the class that I am going to fail is a natural science class that has nothing to do with my major or the graduate study area that I’m planning to apply, also because I take it at a different facility, the grade will not count in my GPA at my home facility. But the thing is, most graduate school applications require applicants to upload all post-secondary transcripts, and I am afraid that this F grade will harm my chance of getting into those relatively upper-scale graudate programs.
So although this F grade will not count towards my GPA in general, I’m just wondering, since it is unlikely for me to retake this class, how much will graduate schools take this one failed online class into their considerations? Thank you all kindly for the helps.
Assuming that you have an otherwise outstanding portfolio, one bad grade - especially an online class over the summer in an unrelated area - won’t tank you too much. I had similar stats as yours and an F in my area and I still got into all of the places I applied (one PhD program, several master’s programs).