<p>I got a D in AP Calculus AB, and it's pretty much set in stone (67%). I'm a junior and I'm currently passing the rest of my classes - AP US History, AP Physics, Honors American Composition, Honors Humanities, Latin American Studies, and Journalism - with a C or better. Would this keep me from getting into the colleges I'm looking at? If so, what can I do about it?</p>
<p>I'm looking at:</p>
<ul>
<li>CSU Northridge</li>
<li>San Francisco State University</li>
<li>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</li>
<li>Eugene Lang</li>
<li>Reed College</li>
<li>FIDM (Los Angeles)</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>I’m a volunteer at my local library (150+ hours)</li>
<li>Sports editor of the school newspaper in sophomore year</li>
<li>News editor of the school newspaper this year</li>
<li>Officer of my school’s Robotics team</li>
<li>Member of my school’s JSA</li>
<li>Member of Key Club (freshman year)</li>
<li>Member of class council (freshman + sophomore year)</li>
</ul>
<p>T26E4 is correct. Need to know the rest of your stats (cumulative unweighted GPA) and test scores.</p>
<p>Cross posted. I think it may hurt you with a more selective school like Reed and UC Berkley. Maybe USC, too. Does depend on your test scores. If you did any math subject tests and scored well, that might help offset a little, too.</p>
<p>I’m taking the SAT for the first time in January, but my PSAT score from last year was 188, and Collegeboard’s highest “projected” score for me is 2080.</p>
<p>That C in Physics is going to hurt, too. I would think you might want to stay away from AP math & science courses in the future. It isn’t worth it for the damage to your GPA… although I assume you have second semesters of both of those classes coming up. You should give some serious consideration if your schedule allows to dropping back to honors in both Calc & Physics next semester if your school offers it. A strong GPA 2nd semester and next fall will help, even if you drop back to easier sections of those classes. My D’s school probably would not let her go on with the D to second semester anyway… and they would encourage anyone pulling a C in AP Physics to drop back to honors as well.</p>
<p>@intparent - My school only offers AP Calculus, no honors. The other option is to drop down to Honors Precalc, but I think they’d be pretty mute about it - I got an A in the class, so I probably can’t drop back down.</p>
<p>As for AP Physics, I’m trying to persuade my counselor to let me drop down to Honors. She hasn’t responded to my request, though.</p>
<p>OK Gwen: I’m just going to make some assumptions. 1 x D, 1 x C, 2 x B and 2 x A. That means you’ll have a 2.83GPA this semester. If you improve to 3.0 next semester, you’ll enter your senior year with a culm GPA of 3.53.</p>
<p>I think you need to do everything possible to stay north of 3.5 culm GPA. (BTW, include MichState along with Reed and Berkley as an unlikely. Even in-state, a 3.5GPA students are rejected.</p>
<p>The realistic schools on your list will not credit you for any ECs. You should pare down those and focus on your studies and SAT/ACT prepping. That’d be my most blunt advice. Good luck to you and you should choose less harder classes.</p>
I will definitely be choosing less harder classes as far as math/science courses go.</p>