<p>Hi everyone.
I'm a little worried. My grades are usually all A's with a B. I'm a junior currently.
In sophomore year, I received one C in Honors Geometry. The teacher was really terrible - our class's average grade was about a 77. </p>
<p>My grades this year are all As. Will this really badly affect admissions? Will top colleges see a C and instantly think I'm not a good applicant?</p>
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<p>Yes, but maybe not necessarily really badly.</p>
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<p>No. They look at your applications holistically. They take into consideration everything and will not focus on one C.</p>
<p>I got a C in honors chemistry in my sophomore year and I went to a top 100 LAC on a full scholarship, and got admitted to several top-tier schools including Emory and Georgia Tech. So no. Colleges do not make decisions based on one grade; they look holistically at your application.</p>
<p>Colleges like to see improvement. It is a lot better to see an average student excel to become a straight A student than a straight A student to slack off.</p>
<p>Ehh, I would think that it depends - on what school you go to, etc. At my school, Geometry is a freshman class, and a lot of kids take Algebra 2 freshman year - which is a step up from Geometry. Some even take Honors Pre-calculus freshman year. I don’t know how Honors Geometry compares to these courses, but it seems like a C in sophomore year would not be good (but if it’s a weighted grade then it’s not nearly as bad). HOWEVER, if a bunch of other kids in your grade got Cs as well, that at least means it didn’t hurt your class rank as much as it could have. </p>
<p>Anyway, considering that you have all As this year, you should probably be fine. Are you taking a math class this year? That would help. Like someone else already said, colleges like to see improvement, so I would definitely take another math class and make sure you get an A. And, of course, getting a good score in SAT I math is always good. If you do that, then colleges will likely see it was a fluke.</p>
<p>You also may want to look briefly into the grade appeal process at your school if the teacher was really that bad - he/she may have been doing something wrong… But don’t spend toooo much energy on that - focus on your other stuff.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I’d be more worried about taking geometry sophomore year in the first place. Because top colleges want to see that you’ve taken the most rigorous courseload possible. Most high schools I know of teach geometry freshman year and algebra II sophomore year. If a sequence with sophomore geometry is all your school offers, then don’t worry about anything. If you could reasonably have been getting a C in algebra II instead that year, that’s more of an issue.</p>