<p>My son is a 3.8 student with an ACT score of 30. He has applied to some rather selective colleges. His school is on trimesters and he just finished his second trimester this week. Although he worked exceeding hard (not a case of senioritis) he got a C- in a Seminar class. He got A in calculus, Irish Lit, History and Chorus, but this is the lowest grade he has gotten in High School and the timing is terrible. He is appealing to the teacher, who has always been difficult and intimidating to the students, however he needs to be careful because he has her for the last trimester and does not want to alienate her. Seminar class in senior year, revolves around a senior exhibition with a large research paper and public exhibition. The teacher says the grade reflected process not outcome and admits that his outcome was very good, but he did a poor job communicating to her his process. Will admission really care about a class called "Seminar" and how detrimental would a C grade be at this time in the admissions process? Enough to revoke an admission?</p>
<p>Schools didn't care about my sons D in calculas seconde semester of Sr year and frankly it was barely a D. Don't worry about it. Son got an A when he took it in colege. The hs class was just hard, full of bright kids, and cut short by a lot of snow days and the usual senior stuff.</p>
<p>Thanks for the note of reassurance!</p>
<p>wouldn't worry about it now. the decisions are made...midterm or final transcripts are just used to make sure the students kept up their effort...and one c- isn't probably going to make them take much notice at this point.</p>
<p>Just to let you now: my D got a C+ in Honors Physics second quarter this (Sr.) year (A's in everything else) and still got in RD the highly competitive Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse. We did have to send her first semester grades, and I'm not sure they even batted an eyelash.</p>