High school senior FAILING Calculus AB. HELP.

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<p>Sorry, I guess I didn't explain clearly!</p>

<p>My school year is divided into four terms, currently we are in the third. My grades are:
1st term: A-
2nd term: A-
3rd term: Unknown (we are only 3 weeks or so into this term and the one test we have had is the one I got a D on). I should be able to pull it up, some, but it's hard to say how much.</p>

<p>I am already accepted ED to Brown, so the issue isn't acceptances, the issue is whether Brown will rescind me for a low grade one term second semester even though my year-end grade (calculated by averaging the 4 term grades) should be at least B range. I don't want to lose my acceptance because of one test.</p>

<p>The transcripts they send with applications only show year-end grades (average of all four terms), but I'm not 100% sure that that's the same one they send with final reports (my concern).</p>

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<p>Ask your registrar. Sounds like your final transcript will only send the year end grades. But double check. </p>

<p>And sounds like you'll need to worry about 4th term also. Math has a tendency to build on itself--if you don't get the third term material down, you may have trouble in the 4th term also.</p>

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<p>Transcripts usually only have the Semester Grades. If you got an "A-" for the 1st semester, and if you get a "B" second semester, you will be fine.</p>

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<p>Thanks to both of you. I will contact the registrar, ellemenope, just to double check that it's just year average, and in the meantime will study like crazy to get A's on the next few tests and bring that D up. It's certainly possible, but it's good to know that I should be okay even if I can't pull it up too far, as long as my semester average is okay (I should be okay fourth term, this was pretty fluky).</p>

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<p>Yale provides course videos for a bunch of courses and there's one that I watched a few lectures of called Game Theory. It's taught out of the economics department. In one of the early lectures, the professor talks about students that haven't had that much math and asked them to see him later. The impression that I got was that there are students (maybe lots of them) with strengths in other areas and that not having calculus didn't prevent them from admission.</p>