So I was accepted to the College of Science and Engineering and am going to confirm my enrollment this weekend. However, my senior year class load is intense, and I am ending the first half of the term with a c+ in calculus. This is my first C in high school, and I applied with a 3.77 and 30 on the act. I was wondering if this grade is enough for the U to reevaluate my admission. Furthermore, I am curious as to what they consider a decline in grades so significant that it would lead to a review of acceptance.
If you are planning to take the AP Calc. exam and get a high score on that, wouldn’t that help your cause? Also, if you do notably better second semester - that would help too.
I wouldn’t worry too much about one C+ tanking my admission. I WOULD worry that I wasn’t grasping the material sufficiently. Whatever you do, make sure you aren’t out of your depth once you matriculate because that’s going to have severe consequences for your long term college success. Better to repeat something just to make sure you “get it” then end up struggling to keep your head above water. FWIW.
Not sure it would hurt that much. I think what administrations are looking for with Senior Grades is making sure that you didn’t just tank the whole year and just stop trying. At least at two other schools my D met with that was the way they phrased the reason behind requesting your final year grades. In the grand scheme of things if its only one class that is a struggle, it may only impact your overall GPA by a fraction of a point which could be offset by a better than expected result in another class.
The final grades serve as validation that you graduated, which actually is a requirement for matriculating at college.