<p>I'm a high school junior this year, and the pressure's on. There are certain things about my high school career that I wish I could go back and fix.</p>
<p>I am most definitely distinguished by my GPA, awards, extracirriculurs, etc. No Worries. SATs and recommendations don't bother me either.
Just one thing: I failed PE one quarter of freshman year, and I didn't do so well thereafterwards. (Health issues and legal absences, not laziness...)</p>
<p>I hear that PE doesn't even go on our official transcripts. Is that right? I know it isn't apart of my academic GPA. Is the Ivy League going to care (maybe they'll think me incompetent) or even see it?</p>
<p>I just need to know how severely, if at all, this will damage my chance of acceptance into top-notch schools.</p>
<p>well, it isnt good to fail any class.....but you definitely picked the right class at the right time to fail. one quarter of pe during your freshman year really shouldn't hurt so much.</p>
<p>also, are quarter grades even on your transcript? what was your final (semester) grade?</p>
<p>I failed second quarter (Final: F!), which I thought to mean I bombed the semester.
Yet I only had to make up one quarter's worth of credits.
Does this still appear on transcripts if it hasn't been accounted for in my GPA?</p>
<p>it will depend on your school whether it appears on your transcript. ask your counselor next time you see him.</p>
<p>at my school, we have this "credit recovery" thing, where you can retake classes that you failed and then the new grade will be factored into your gpa rather than the old grade. maybe your school has something similar.</p>