Hello!! Have never posted on here before but I’m currently finishing up my junior year and as grades are finalized realized that I have a C in gym and I am freaking out. I go to an extremely competitive public high school, am a solid A-/B+ student in all AP/honors with a 4.03 (W 4.0 scale) GPA, 36 ACT, great ECs (including 3 year varsity athlete). I just had my best semester of high school with straight As but in the chaos and stress of 2nd semester junior year with APs and all did not manage my gym teacher properly and am worried sick about a C on my transcript for gym. Gym does not count towards my GPA and my high school does not rank so I am not worried about it GPA wise but it would still show up on my transcript and am worried about the eyebrows it would raise as I have certainly never had a C in my life. I still have a shot at raising it to a B- with extra credit but my teacher is not replying to my emails and am losing sleep and worried sick in the middle of finals over my gym grade of all things. I simply was stupid and forgot to bring clothes a lot of the time and cut once or twice to see teachers but that had never been an issue in the past and I didn’t realize how hard this teacher grades in relation to my past experience. If I could go back and fix my mistakes I would but in the meantime how horribly will this hurt my chances at college admission, I don’t want all my hard work this junior year to be for nothing because I was stupid and forgot to bring gym clothes.
Relax. Stop emailing your teacher about extra credit (unless it is an established part of the curriculum). Sleep.
No college will reject you because of a C in gym. In fact many colleges recalculate GPA using only academic subjects. Move on.
While @happy is correct that the grade won’t matter, if your attitude to gym class is apparent to your rec writers, it could hurt you. Please review your discordant statements:
Now imagine you said, “I worked hard all year except that I cut math class a couple of times and forgot to bring my homework/textbooks to class a lot of the time.” And then further imagine how the math teacher would rightly roll her eyes when you asked for extra credit.
You lucked out that it’s “only” gym, although I doubt the gym teacher feels that way.
@skieurope is correct. Take this as a fairly painless opportunity to learn that effort matters in everything you do.
“did not manage my gym teacher properly”