<p>this is a bit late to be asking this but i'm kind of freaking out</p>
<p>here's the thing...last spring I failed a class. I didn't bother repeating it, since the UC i'm looking at transferring to isn't one of the most selective and my overall gpa was still competitive (I think) for that school (3.6 ish). I'm about to apply and I will have all major prereqs, well over 60 units and everything else done by spring. I didn't think that 1 F would affect me..and I couldn't even apply for ac renewal yet anyway since my school requires a full year to pass first before you can apply for it</p>
<p>Will this kill me? people are now telling me that the UC's will reject for any D or F. the reason i was so careless before is that I clearly read about many cc students failing multiple classes and simply repeating them, so I didn't think failing that 1 class would be a big deal. I thought that rule in question only applied to classes that were "in progress" and were taken during the year the student was applying. this class I'm talking about was taken last spring and will be fully disclosed on the app... </p>
<p>i'm not using it for any requirements at all .. but technically it is a uc transferrable course (it's a humanities course). Without it all my requirements will still be met by spring before transfer..and I think my gpa is solid even with that F</p>
<p>BTW IM NOT doing tag</p>
<p>Hey, don’t freak out! Yes, it’s not the best news, but I don’t think that you’ll be automatically disqualified because of that F. However, you need to elucidate the reasons for failing it. You need to soften that blow or else it might impact you. At least make the effort to write in the “additional comment” box why you failed and say how this grade is not reflective of your whole academic caliber. </p>
<p>Moreover, you should contact the school immediately and see what you can do. Try to find out what you might do so that you can make preemptive notice before they can to your application. hope this helps</p>
<p>Thanks, I’ll definitely do that.</p>
<p>What I find kind of strange (from what I’ve read throughout these forums) is that many people who had multiple F’s were still able to get into some UC’s as long as they applied academic renewal to those classes or repeated them.<br>
In many of those cases they had lower gpa’s than me even after academic renewal or repeating those classes.</p>
<p>But in comparison just because I can’t yet apply academic renewal to just ONE F I’m seen as a more questionable applicant despite a higher gpa than some of those applicants?</p>
<p>Having a D or an F is not by any means an automatic rejection. The UCs tend to look at overall performance not class by class. The only real quantification they’re concerned about as far as grades go is your overall UC transferable GPA (at least for the non-impacted majors). For more competitive majors, they’d likely look to see if the grade you received was in a major requisite course, but because in your case it isn’t, it’s not something that should hurt you at all. </p>
<p>That being said if you have a 3.6 overall with an F, I’d have to imagine that if you had repeated the class and replaced the grade with an A or B it would have dramatically improved your GPA, somewhere around .1-.25 points, because of the UCs academic forgiveness policy. Just bear in mind that that could be the difference between somewhere like UCSD/UCI and UCLA or Berkeley if those are the schools you were also applying to.</p>
<p>ya im in a similar situation. I have an F in human physiology, and im a business-accounting major haha sooo idk im def trying to receive academic renewal by the time january updates come around. </p>
<p>What would be a good reason why i failed it? I stopped showing up, thinking that the instructor would automatically drop me ughhh BIG MISTAKE but i highly doubt that would be a reasonable explanation…??</p>