<p>Well, my GPA was high 3.5+, but I failed an Accounting course, can one's GPA bounce back from failing a class, or am I finished as far as post grad ambitions? I know life isn't over, but what can I do?</p>
<p>You can retake the class and get a different grade.</p>
<p>Are you an accounting major or something? If so maybe its not for you.</p>
<p>Yea take it over again.</p>
<p>See if you school erases the F from your transcript if you retake it. Mine does that but you can only do it 3 times at most (3 different classes). That is probably what I am going to do for Chemistry because I took my final today and I don't think I did well enough to pass the class (had to make a 70 to make a D, and don't think I did that). I will retake it in the fall if I fail.</p>
<p>I was an accounting major, but after this I don't know. I mean I smashed financial accounting got like a 95%, but managerial accounting was just different got a 58%, and thats "curved".</p>
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<p>I would take the class over. </p>
<p>Sign up to take the class over in the fall.</p>
<p>Keep all of your course materials and review them for a little bit each day during the summer. </p>
<p>Before you swap majors, please take the class over. I know that this site is for high achievers, but heck! Most folks have flunked something once (I am counting Kindergarten on up) or know someone who has. You just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and give the class one more try.</p>
<p>What happened?????
If I were you, I would spend the summer taking a long, hard look at my major. </p>
<p>Mildred, there are plenty here, like myself, who have never flunked a class...ever. Soph year of HS I did get D's in Chem and Geometry one quarter, but my final grades in both of those classes were C's. If I ever get a D or F in class, requiring me to retake it, I think I would dig a hole in the ground, jump in it, and never show my face to the world again. But that's just me. Ever since those low grades, I've held myself to higher standards.</p>
<p>Wow, you're cool frostburg... people should learn from you. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Instead of retaking it this coming fall would it be possible to retake it at a JUCO over summer and have it transfer over?</p>
<p>Frostbug what is wrong with you? Dude, we're in America, not Japan...</p>
<p>"I think I would dig a hole in the ground, jump in it, and never show my face to the world again"</p>
<p>Wow lol. Ya, lets all take advice from this kid. Hey, let me ask you something....you got D's and C's in highschool? What happened?!</p>
<p>Well, hiding yourself in a hole because you fail a class sounds stupid to me.
There are many circumstances in which you could fail a class, like lack of interest or concentration, a bad teacher, tragedy, etc.</p>
<p>If you can't brace yourself to take failure like an adult and try again, then you might as well be one of those poor kids who kill themselves because they didn't make the grade. (I have nothing against them, I just think it's sad that they had to resort to suicide b/c they failed a test or an exam or whatnot and couldn't stand the pressure or something.)</p>
<p>I think you should retake the class. If it doesn't work again, then you should reconsider...</p>
<p>It's not that I can't take or accept failure, it's just that it's simply not an option.</p>
<p>It was one quarter of two classes, and I only said the world would end if I had grades those kinds of grades and I had to retake classes. I don't go to an Ivy, or a top LAC, or even the best public U in my state, so I don't hold myself to a standard of having to get straight A's. Basically, my philosophy comes from the fact that if I bring my mom a GPA of less than a 3.0, then she won't write another tuition check. Period, end of discussion, no room for major error. But I haven't always been so faithful to those rules. Before I got those low grades, I would get good grades with little or no effort. Once I got into tougher classes, it took a long time to accept that I had to work for better grades, and that things would not always fall into place as they are "supposed to"; this was when I was learning-the hard way-that problems aren't always going to "work themselves out". </p>
<p>So, I basically hit academic rock bottom, learned from my mistakes, clawed my way out of the mess I made, and have vowed to never ever repeat those mistakes. And no, I don't study 24/7; I have friends in school and I do have fun and just relax and procrastinate at times, but not to the point where my grades are suffering. I'm not saying people who make the mistakes I did don't deserve second chances; they do, I did. That's just it, I already got my second chance. So, maybe your parents will let it go if you bring home a D because your school is one of the best and you are taking uber-hard classes, but I don't have that luxury.</p>
<p>BTW, I only said that because I was responding to and find it a bit hard to believe that everyone else is okay with the generalization that everyone has flunked a class, when I'm sure that's not true.</p>
<p>Failing a class is not the end of the world, its just a course, a piece of paper. You can take it again, and you will probably do a LOT better because now you know all the ins and outs of the material, and you know what the professor is going to be like if its the same person. You will probably also have your notes from the last time you took it, AND the textbook. Thats a lot of hassle averted. You can basically spend the entire class...reviewing (if you paid attention the first time you took it), and you actually might be ahead of the game, but of course you have to be committed the second time around.</p>
<p>Sometimes, the course just may not be for you, and you should just take something else. Often times the professor is just awful, and you can't learn from him or her. Thats what happened to me with a Hebrew professor I had. Her style of teaching the language was very new-fangled, super-progressive stuff, and I just couldn't learn the material because I have to have language beaten over the head and shoved down my throat to learn it, which is why I'm still proficient in Spanish 2 years after I stopped taking the language.
Sometimes, like a certain Calculus course I had, the doctoral student teaching it is a robot, and has no idea how to help students with different learning styles. I was able to find another professor in the math department to explain things better, and an academic adviser to help me out. However, if my only way to learn the subject was from her, I would have failed for sure.</p>
<p>I highly discourage the kind of thinking that frostburg2010 is promulgating here, intentionally or unintentionally. 70% of college is picking the right courses, in the right amount, with the right professors. Its easy to screw up. I did, twice. The courses you take must be a balance between interesting material, comfort with the teaching style of the professor, and the workload. Sometimes for intro courses this can be hard, but thats why you should consult as much help from school officials and your peers as possible. Don't write it off as a lost cause. Get academic help as soon as possible.</p>
<p>I'm with Frostburg on this one. I've never gotten less than a B in the class for a final grade and don't think it's very productive to shrug an F off as, "Oh, most everyone's done that at some point."</p>
<p>An F isn't the end of the world, but when it's in a class in your major...yeah...you should definitely take some time to consider what you're going into. Hey, it might have just been that the course didn't click the first time (especially if it's a very difficult one) or that you studied wrong for it...in that case, learn from your mistakes, take it again and see how you do. If you still don't do very well after the second go, the whole examining your major thing should shift to examining another one.</p>
<p>I know a lot of you are just trying to make them feel better about it, so yippee for butterflies and teddy bears...but some folks are just a bit more blunt about finding the cause and solution.</p>
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<p>Frostbug, what planet do you live on? Be careful. You have a rather harsh viewpoint on failure. But, some folks think that one can learn from their mistakes. The whole thing is that you have to acknowledge that you make a mistake. I have not failed anything ever. Or, I would not be able to go to Private Uni for free on an academic scholarship. But, I do know folks who have failed things. I have to privately tutor two kids who failed the heck out of Spanish for part of this summer. They are both getting my tutoring assistance and giving the class one more try and are really repentant from having to do so. This is not bad. But, if these two kids had your mentality, they would just up and die?! Gosh darnit. That is a bad viewpoint to have. I am very sorry for sounding like a mean girl, but gosh!</p>
<p>If you read my post you will see that I said...</p>
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<p>I can't quite believe that no one has either failed a class or know someone who has. I am in the later category myself. But, still. </p>
<p>All OP has to do is think of taking the class over and then deciding what to do from there. That is not a bad thing. </p>
<p>I like this argument the best, really...</p>
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An F isn't the end of the world, but when it's in a class in your major...yeah...you should definitely take some time to consider what you're going into. Hey, it might have just been that the course didn't click the first time (especially if it's a very difficult one) or that you studied wrong for it...in that case, learn from your mistakes, take it again and see how you do. If you still don't do very well after the second go, the whole examining your major thing should shift to examining another one.
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<p>How is all of this bad? I am lost here, really. There is nothing wrong with giving things one more try. Or is there? I am soo lost, now.</p>
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How is all of this bad? I am lost here, really. There is nothing wrong with giving things one more try. Or is there? I am soo lost, now.
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<p>Um...what? I'm not sure if this is in response to my post or not...hm.</p>
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<p>I am sorry, I formatted my post wrong and it is too late to edit it. </p>
<p>Sorry, katho11</p>
<p>No problem, I was just a bit confused.</p>
<p>Frostburg, be very careful unless you want your feelings hurt. I went to a school in the same tier as you and had a 3.91 GPA. I transferred to McGill, and now I celebrate when I get a B-. 50% of my friends have failed something at McGill, and most had 3.7+ GPA's in high school. Go to a school like MIT, and the situation is WAY worse...kids flunk out and get readmitted all the time, despite working 80 hours a week at school.</p>