<p>hey guys</p>
<p>i have a quick question about dropping one of my high school classes. I took a latin 4 honors class this year and obtained a C- first quarter and am currently doing the same, if not worse. I know I'm a slacker and all, but my question is this: Would it look better for my junior year on a college transcript to take the low grade in the latin class to to drop it all together?</p>
<p>any input is appreciated.</p>
<p>I'd drop it. A C- is pretty low. You'll probably be happier dropping it anyway. I know what it feels lik to be in your situation, it happened to me in chem and I had to drop out.</p>
<p>If there's any chance at all of an improvement in your grade, I'd say you should stay in the class. I had a similar problem last year...with a C first term in French 4 H. After getting that grade, I focused a lot more on the class and studied way ahead for tests. I ended up with a B+ 4th term and a B overall for the year. But of course, if you don't think you really can manage it and the grade will just get worse, drop it.</p>
<p>Well if it's just about slacking... you should really try to fix that problem now, because second semester of your junior year is definitely no time to slack off. If you truly do not enjoy the class, perhaps it would be better to find something better to do with your time. But if it is a simple matter of working hard, I would definitely stay with the class, because there's time yet to bring your grade up. Furthermore, teachers love it when you can show a significant improvement in grades, if you were thinking of getting this particular teacher to write a rec. Of course, it would be great to have straight As, but hey this would be better than nothing.</p>
<p>hey thank you all for your replies, i'm going to look into it a little more</p>
<p>Depends on what type of schools your applying to.</p>
<p>For competitive colleges, a C- is not good at all. However, if you do drop the college, make sure your transcript shows no mention of it. In otherwords, make sure you transcript doesn't have grades for Quarter 1 & 2, and then just "DROPPED" or n/a or something for quarter 3 & 4. Probably should ask your GC about this.</p>
<p>This is certainly a difficult question and is entirely relative to the types of schools to which you will be applying.</p>
<p>my friend dealt with this same problem last year, but with math. she had a c+...ultimately she dropped it because it was so time consuming to maintain even a c+/b- avg , that she thought her other grades would improve if she dropped it and so overall dropping it would make her gpa way better. i think it was a good move. if its the same for you, id drop it</p>
<p>could you consider adding another class, insteaD? for example if youre a history whiz, drop latin and double up in histories. that way you still have a challenging course load.</p>