<p>So I am taking AP Biology right now as a junior in high school and I completely failed my class Final, but about half of my class did too (the class average was a 35 out of 100 multiple choice questions, and there are 29 people total). I feel very bad about my failing grade because I studied for the Final and ended up failing :( It's near the end of the school year and I'm very worried about my Final Grade for AP Biology.. My Final is worth half of my Final Grade and the other half comes form the grades I have gotten in the past terms (Bs and Cs) </p>
<p>I know that I will at least get As in my other 5 classes (I have a total of 6 classes including AP Biology) but I think I might actually get an F for the year. If this is the case that AP Biology will show up as an F on my transcript (along with As in my other classes), will that destroy my chances into getting into Ivy League schools (ex. Harvard, Yale, etc..)? Or to any regular college? I'm generally a very good student and I'm taking 3 Honors and 2 AP classes.. but for this class, my AP Biology teacher just teaches in a way that doesn't help me.. or most people in my class. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if this one bad grade WILL hurt my chances to Harvard and etc..?</p>
<p>Talk to your AP Bio teacher right away, especially if the class average is a 35% and the final counts for so much. If you get an F right now, during your junior year, then you can basically bid all the Ivies and USNWR Top 25 schools goodbye. If I were you, I’d do everything within my power to make sure I did not end up with an F.</p>
<p>Thanks for replying fledgling, but I don’t think that there’s anything I can do. I do know that my AP bio teacher will scale the exam but most likely I’ll still end up with an F for the year. There are other people who did worst than me or just as worse, and my teacher won’t care if he fails most of us. His grading policy is very unfair… we only get one or two exams a term and he never gives them back, so we’ll never know what we got wrong or what our score was. There’s no way I can re-take the Final Exam but I didn’t get an F because I didn’t care for the class. I guess colleges are going to see that F and think that I completely slacked off in that class, and that is not the case. </p>
<p>Can I at least get into colleges that aren’t ranked in the USNWR Top 25?</p>
<p>^ Pretty difficult to tell… I think you should see your GC about this and make him aware of the situation. He might be able to explain it in his letter…</p>
<p>There are a few things I’m not understanding. </p>
<p>If you’re reaching for the ivies, then I would assume you’re near the top of your class. So if there are 29 students most, if not all, who failed that exam, and you are already one of the best students, then wouldn’t all the students be getting an F in AP Bio? IF that’s the case, then I definitely know that your school would not allow every student to get a final grade of an F. </p>
<p>Seriously, talk to your teacher. But be extremely cordial, do not go to your guidance counselor, or dean, or principal, until after all your attempts with your teacher have been exhausted, so that way you do not insult her. But ask her to explain why the curve isn’t high enough, or why so many students do so poor. And then ask her to adjust it.</p>
<p>I have the same problem!
Except I’m not getting an F, probably just a C.
I started out getting B’s in my AP Physics, AP World History, and AP Calc classes… For 3rd quarter though, I got an A- in World and Calc, and then dropped to a C in Physics!
My GPA though is still a 3.85, will I be able to get into an ivy league with one C? Especially if I explain that my teacher and I were really not the best match and he hadn’t even been teaching for that long, so he was inexperienced</p>
<p>Go talk to your guidance counselors about these courses and these grades. If there are extenuating circumstances, your counselors may have ways to explain them in their letters to the colleges.</p>
<p>In the US, it is extremely unusual for a teacher to refuse to show the actual exams to the students after testing. You may want to take that kind of issue to the Principal, the PTA, or even the school board.</p>