I was looking at a transcript I had for a community college I was attending (as a high school student), and noticed that I had forgot to drop a class during my junior year at this community college. Is there some way I’m able to remove this grade, clarify this grade, or am I screwed? Is it weighed similarly to other classes on my transcript as a grade or will it be excused since it’s more like an extracurricular? (or summer program)
*All my other grades are A’s and B’s exclusively if that matters
@sakana Any grades earned on a community college transcript will remain permanently on your record (even if you apply to Grad schools in the future, that F will still be visible). As such, this grade will not be “excused” because it is not like an “extracuricular” - it is a real college class that will stay with you forever. If you will be applying to UCLA as a freshman, know that you will need to report this F in your Academic History section and it will be weighed similarly to your other classes (in this case, you will earn 0 out of 4 GPA points for the F, which does reduce your overall GPA quite significantly).
You cannot “remove” or expunge a grade from your transcript, but you can take steps to prevent that F from calculating into your GPA. The best option for this is to try and retake that class at the community college in the hopes of earning a better grade. Although a better grade will not “remove” the F, your GPA will be recalculated using the better grade instead of the 0 points for the F. In any case, you should definitely try to explain this situation in your application, but realistically speaking, admitting to the university that you “forgot” to drop a college class is a pretty weak excuse - it signals to the university that perhaps you don’t care enough about your academic record to adhere to such important deadlines as the drop deadline.
Do you know what class this was? Was it UC-transferable according to your CC?
OP, @need2go2UCLA pretty much covered it
if you are still a HS student you have nothing to lose by contacting your GC and see if there is any way for them to work with the CC to retroactively drop the class. HS kids may be held to looser standards than college kids, and deciding to just stop attending a class they don’t like is something a HS kid may do. If you have finished HS then contact the dept that administers the HS program.
This is a longshot but I don’t see any reason not to try.
Another thing you can see if you can do at the community college is an Academic Renewal. I don’t really have the time to go over the specifics of it, but you can google it and see if you might want to try that.