Hey everybody, just on a sad note today. It is my first year in high school and I have been very sick this past semester. I missed over 23 days of school because of being very sick and I turned in all of my work, but yet only 4 of my 8 teacher have up’d my grades to A’s, while the rest are simply not grading my work which resulted in 4 F’s. Again, I turned in all of the work for all 8 classes. Now, the semester is over and I hate the fact that when I go to look at my grades, my “F” teachers kept putting missing/absent/plain old 0. Anyway, let met get to my questions and concerns:
1.) How can I “make-up” what is presumed to be “failure”?
2.) Will these grades show up on my transcript regardless of having to retake the class or not?
3.) If so, what are my chances of getting into my dream colleges of Stanford or Princeton?
4.) Can I take even more classes during the summer to amp up my GPA?
5.) How much do they consider GPA, how much do they consider test scores, how much do they consider my transcript?
I am very shocked and even cried my eyes before I went to bed. It is not even on my behalf. I stayed up all the way to 2 AM finishing my makeup work, I woke up at 4 to study, and I even skipped lunch to study. Forgive me if I sound a bit dramatic, I am just very stressed, concerned, and just shocked. I even passed all of the finals with 95 and above. Why does this happen to me? help. =((
If you just include such a paragraph in the additional information while you’re applying to college, backed up with good grades otherwise, then I believe it is a non-issue, and may even have a positive effect on your app, as it may show diligence, hope, and ability to overcome failures and obstacles.
Stanford doesn’t consider freshman year – it says so on their website. I had a 3.3 GPA freshman year. Accepted REA. Add info writeup would be good like above poster says ^
Stanford does not consider freshman year grades. Additionally, this is something your GC should explain in their rec- your illness should not be held against you.