Calculus Forgiveness?

Transfer Students
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<p>Ugh, C+ in Calculus I. Discouraging considering I aced honors calc in high school (not the same, I know.) Anyways, the rest of my grades for first semester of college are all As: Honors Biological Anthropology, Honors Classical Greek Civilization, Sports and Daily Life in Ancient Rome (I hope I'm not jinxing myself because they're not yet official, but I'll take my chances.)</p>

<p>Anyways, I really want to transfer to UNC (I'm currently a freshman). Also, they don't take in-state/out-of-state into account for transfers, which is a big part of what kept me out as a freshman (from New England). Will I maybe get in?</p>

<p>University of Michigan (Honors Program)
GPA: 3.57 (I hope)
ECs: Write fairly regularly for a campus newspaper
started my own club about statistical research in baseball
play intramural basketball/soccer/football</p>

<p>High School
SAT: 790 Verbal, 670 Math, 750 Writing (1460, 2210)
SAT IIs: 790 US, 760 World, 750 Bio
GPA: 3.8 weighted (~15/200)
ECs: Varsity Cross Country captain, Varsity Basketball</p>

<p>Do I have a chance at UNC? Should I even bother with UVa? (UVa still accounts for state residency and I was rejected there as a freshman.) Thanks for your responses.</p>

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<p>You definitely have a shot at UNC. Have you applied there in the past? UVA is very difficult to transfer to out of state.</p>

<p>A C+ in calc isn't THAT bad. It's a very hard subject.</p>

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<p>Since you're at UMich and in the honors program, I don't think you'll have a problem getting into UNC. UVA is more iffy since it's on the same level as UMich and you have a bit lower GPA.</p>

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<p>yeah UMich's Calc I - III seems to kill more GPAs than most other colleges.</p>

<p>My friend's 4.0 got dropped because of that.</p>

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<p>I was wondering the same thing about a poor calculus grade.. Personally, I was a percentage point from the low A cutoff and since the professor didn’t utilize a +/- grading system I ended up with a B. I'm beginning to think that when transferring to a different school the calc grade will come into play as it is one of the only courses people don’t routinely ace.</p>