<p>I might end up with a C (without the 10 points curve that our school gives when we take AP classes)(so it'll be a B with 10 points) in AP chemistry. I'm so worried right now... how likely will Emory college and Oxford College take back their acceptance?? I had natural B's and A's throughout high school. I only got 2 B's jounior year, a bunch freshman year, and 1 B sophomore year. out of all AP's I took, I only got 1 natural A and the rest are natural B's but on the transcript it only shows with the 10 points so the natural B's in AP classes all end up like A's..... so worried!! please please help/answer..</p>
<p>You’ll be alright. Wow 10 points is a lot lol! You’ll be alright. I think I got 1-2 C grade when in high school without the 3-5 point curve (They were honors courses so I think it was three) earlier in my highschool career (my grades dramatically increased starting junior year when I started taking APs and they were essentially As before the 5 point curve). Emory isn’t Harvard and will not rescind for getting an unweighted C grade. Besides Emory, like most top/tough colleges will essentially reweight grades for honors/AP. You’d have to fail (as in D/F) a class or have an awful conduct violation to be rescinded.</p>
<p>Here’s what happened to me when I took AP Chem. We were on the 4 classes one day 4 another period system. So we had quarters. My grades were 74, 90, 97, 100 with respect to each quarter (note that my AP chem. teacher in the past would generally give <70% to the whole class the first quarter! My year was the only exceptions. The year before, she recommended governors honors to my friend and another student that earned a 69% in the 1st quarter lol. I’ll miss my school) My final score in the course was 90 w/o the 5 point weight. And my school’s honors/AP courses hardly had internal inflation (the school board is responsible for allowing the addition of the 3-5 point weights) and were quite difficult. For most of my profs., tests were not curved even if the whole class failed and my AP/Honors English teachers readily gave Fs on papers. Needless to say, not even the valedictorians get out with a 4.0 (I know at least two of them, and they didn’t leave without getting a couple of B or even a C grade in a course, yet they were brilliant), even after the weighting put on the honors courses. And no, I did not attend some top private school. My school simply has one of the better magnet/honors programs in the city. If Emory admitted you with the Bs that you complain about, they’ll probably get over that one C, so don’t panick. If you were waitlisted, however, you could be in trouble, but you’re already accepted. Emory has to deal with all of the regular admission applicants now, so probably won’t have time to get upset enough over your first C so as to take the time and make a rescind letter. Calm down and do the best you can in AP Chem. Kill the AP exam and make your life easier for your first semester here 
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Your panicking reminds me of why high school sucks and for many is harder than college. Everything depends on it, and you have a heavy workload due to the high level of structure in a high school curriculum. In college, it’s the opposite where there is so much more time, and one has to use it wisely. And, since it’s private school, where folks essentially pay for good grades, they curve when the average is below 70 (and in some cases 80. The joke upper-level chem. class called quantitative analysis actually curves exams to an 82 average. Shame on them, I guess they had to do something so that the students don’t sing like a canary about how the professors were awful). Point is, things will be less stressful when you get here for the most part. Emory can be tough, but the adjustment is so much easier than if you went to one of those large and tough public schools.</p>
<p>dude dont even trip with a C, my best friend got into Brown last year and he got a C in AP gov, he stressed out like you did too, and he just finished his finals for Brown and came back to visit so you should be good man, but like bernie12 said, a D or more than two C’s will make the admissions counselors think you’re slacking off just cuz you got the acceptance letter. just my .02</p>
<p>thank you so much :)</p>
<p>Ah, AP gov. I have fond memories. That class was super hard (especially comparative). The whole class failed like 2 exams in a row. She gave a final first quarter and 2 of us passed (I got the highest by a miracle with an 84, my other friend who passed got like a 75 lol). Excellent teacher, but her tests were crazy hard. However, we were over trained and rocked the AP.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about, just don’t fail, and continue enjoying senior year…</p>
<p>Lol I’ll be sure to post so I can go back to this thread at the end of the year…</p>
<p>AP Chem - what an awful class. Anyone else get a 1 on the exam?</p>
<p>Lol. If you did, don’t feel bad, lots of people get that, especially when the profs. sucks. The only reason my class did well is because we studied together. She is so bad, that normally like 80-90% of the class gets 1s, but my year most of us at least got 3. However, my class only had like 12 people. 2 of us made 4 and 2 made 5s. I was lucky to be in those 4 group of 4 people. I feel kind of annoyed when I get to Emory and here about how most of the people went to awesome schools where the whole class gets a 5 because the teacher only teaches directly for the AP exam and that’s all. I’m somewhat jealous, but then I think of the good teachers that didn’t do that, but just taught all they could, yet made references to how it would be relevant to the exam, and then start official prep for the exam itself as we got closer to it (and we did very well). Apparently, people at such schools are prepped for the exam the whole year. It’s a really stupid approach to education (but schools get funding based upon these scores, so the method is perpetuated). When you get to colleges, you are expected to know nearly everything mentioned by the prof and maybe some more because unlike AP, the exams are not always extremely predictable. A lot of my friends who had AP programs/teachers like that seemed to have trouble adjusting to harder classes (IB program is much better prep. for these). So I really wouldn’t sweat what you get out of AP other than the material (and maybe transfer credit). You could be in a class at Emory where you may have seen all of the material before from AP, but may not do well on the exam and people who have no exposure to the subject matter may do much better. This happened to me and lots of people in the year I took bio 141 (I did okay, but not as well as I should have). And many of my friends using chem. 141 credit failed the first 142 exam. Part of this is the complacency that comes from having been exposed to the material. They studied, but less than they needed to.</p>
<p>The AP exam covers just about everything in a college level course so by teaching for the AP exam you are basically just teaching what you are supposed to. Also its up to you to review for the AP test by getting prep books and such if you feel that you are unprepared</p>
<p>Yeah, I agreed with that. I’m saying it’s good in terms of exposing you to the material. But the fact that the test is so predictable that you can simply get a prep. book to prepare makes it slightly below the college level. This especially applies to science courses which in some cases will under-emphasize topics covered in greater depth at tougher schools. For example, AP biology doesn’t require one to go far beyond Mendelian genetics and most top schools, including Emory cover molecular and chromosomal genetics extensively. So a person whose prof. solely prepared them for material that would be stressed on that exam may go unexposed to that material. Not to mention the more chemistry based aspects (other than proteins and their structure) are not emphasized. Often tougher colleges will require students to understand enzyme kinetics in terms gibbs free energy and rate laws. AP seems to prep. one for a standard level course. Most sections of intro. courses at Emory are not standard level. Having a teacher that taught more than the exam benefits if you took AP. Again, normally IB classes make one better off in classes like that which I described. Also, AP chem. overstressed mathematical problems. The tests here are designed so that you need a great understanding of the physical/micro concept before applying the math. This is to say that, the exams are trickier and are designed to weed those out who may have simply remembered certain problems from the book or p-sets. To me AP was very straightforward. Here after you do the math, they often have follow-up questions about the concept itself (so it’s not like a multi-part math problem), so if you screw up/misunderstand/ get lucky on the first part, you miss the second (where AP will give you points on multi-part problems if you get a) wrong but b) right based off a)s answer. Honestly AP Bio did a much better job at application problems than AP chem. </p>
<p>And as for AP history/social science courses: Those are completely different (not necessarily easier, in fact often harder) from the counterparts at Emory where profs. tend to zone in on issues of the topic that most interest them or go into much greater depth (and thus requires some courses to be split into 2 parts). Often one gets elective credit for such APs here, and they merely count toward a GER, and are kind of useless to majors. And in many of the counterparts, you don’t simply use a textbook. You read scholarly writings and primary source literature or solely rely on lecture notes (there may be no textbook). These APs simply instill work ethic (all the busy work). The overlap material wise will not be as great. And also, writing for APs social sciences/history emphasized ones approach to content moreso than quality. In college (or at least here as there is currently an effort to raise the quality of writing), you must have both. And in some the intros., many of the TAs grade viciously (probably pre-law weedout classes). Could be the first time you see below a B-grade on a paper (pretty sure most HS students at Emory have never seen it). Despite this, normally social science and history classes here are much more enjoyable and even, I dare say, relevant.</p>
<p>Well this sucks. Accepted to Emory EDI not even a month ago and just found out I received a C- in my college latin course. It was a 300-level course.</p>
<p>Am I effed?</p>
<p>No TJ your not. One C- won’t eff you. Just make sure you put in the time/effort this semester so it doesn’t happen again and raise serious concern.</p>
<p>Don’t even worry about it. A few bad grades in the midst of ones that got you accepted in the first won’t do anything. I got a C in AP Calc last year and freaked out, but no worries…I’m heading into my 2nd semester at Emory.</p>