<p>Alright- so I've maintained a 3.91 weighted through high school, and I go to a liberal arts charter school so I've taken college classes as well throughout school. I've got a really good international level sports story and I'm hispanic and I'm a girl, so I'm not worried about that aspect, but here's my dilemma. I've applied to some hard schools (Caltech Early Action, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, etc.). I've taken all the required courses to get into these colleges because of my school. </p>
<p>I took Calc B/C as a junior and scraped by with a C, mainly because my brain just doesn't get calc. So this year, I took a Calc I course at the college my charter school works with, but I'm gonna fail it most likely due to one REALLY bad grade on a test and my prof is super strict and I know won't offer me extra credit. Plus, because it's a college course in the Engineering school (primarily male), I'm the only girl in the course and I'm underage, and I go to the class most of the time but sometimes I leave part of the way through because the men in the class make me feel uncomfortable- not enough to press charges or bring it up to the college or something but still.</p>
<p>I have essentially straight A's in my classes currently and 1 B in my musicology class, but I don't know how much they'll consider that since I'm wanting to go into Biomedical Engineering and the study of music isn't that big of a deal. </p>
<p>What is this gonna do to my admissions to college if I fail this class? I mean, I took Calculus once already and passed, so will they necessarily consider this grade because it's a repeat (kind of) AND an extra unnecessary math class AND a college course? If I get accepted to Caltech (my dream school) Early Action (hopefully I'll know in the next few days) would they rescind my admission when I report I failed a class, despite what the class was?</p>
<p>I would withdraw from the class if you have the option. It will look better than failing. </p>
<p>I really can’t, semester ends next week…</p>
<p>D or F grades in course work that was in progress while your application is being evaluated often do put your admissions at risk, if you get admitted. However, if the colleges use mid-year reports, they will be visible to the admissions readers, so they would most likely reduce your chance of admission instead.</p>
<p>Caltech’s calculus course assumes that students have had regular high school or college calculus before. It is much more theoretical than a typical calculus course. See the lecture notes at <a href=“http://www.math.caltech.edu/~2013-14/1term/ma001a/#lect”>http://www.math.caltech.edu/~2013-14/1term/ma001a/#lect</a> .</p>
<p>I think you are at risk. This was a course you took, you didn’t have to take it but you did. You could have dropped it but you didn’t, then you could have withdrawn but you didn’t. So to pretend that it is some kind of extra class everyone will ignore isn’t going to happen. It will look like you can’t do college math. If you get into caltech, and with the C in Calc BC that is not too likely, then you are going to have to get ahead of it and advise them. I don’t think saying you stopped going to class is going to be a valid excuse. If you can’t be in a class with a lot of men without getting distracted then caltech isn’t the right school for you. You really have to think about why you couldn’t ace this class having already essentially had it. You had better go see your GC and find out how to handle this F for your RD applications.</p>
<p>Okay, here’s a question: Since this is “a college your charter school works with” do you have the this class on your same high school transcript? Or do you have to order a separate college transcript to submit the course? Also, is this the only course you took at this college? If you have the option, just don’t order a transcript from that college.</p>
<p>If you felt you were being harassed in the class, then don’t deny those feelings. Trust your gut. Really, you really should have brought it up to your high school counselor, the course instructor or the college’s dean of students much earlier in the term. You can’t expect to leave a calculus class early on a regular basis, and still do well. My goal for you: Be more proactive in managing these kinds of situations wherever you go to college.</p>
<p>When you say you want biomed engineering and schools like Caltech, Harvard and Penn, the C in calc b/c is the first problem. The 3.91weighted sounds like you got other grades below A. You need to be realistic about the competition at these schools, not just in admissions. </p>
<p>C in Calc means no CalTech (they’re one of the few schools that require calculus from all applicants, with the expectation this is a minimum and completed with an A.)
In any case: check that it’s too late to withdraw. That’s really your best option.
The other option is to do everything you can not to fail. Have you talked with the course instructor and mentioned you’re a HS student? Might they be more flexible wrt extra credit in that situation?</p>
<p>There’s an enormous gap between “rises to the level of a criminal offense” and “worth making the instructor aware of.” If something is going on in class that keeps you from being able to sit in the room for an entire class period, it’s the instructor’s job to put an end to it.</p>
<p>@Picapole There is no option not to send the college transcript. Doing so would be academic dishonesty and fraud and would result in a rescinded acceptance.</p>