<p>Hey everybody. I'm having a bit of a panic attack. I've been accepted and have committed to the college of letters, arts, and sciences as an IR/GB major. I am also participating in the thematic option honors program. However, I decided to take my last semester of high school too lightly and received very unimpressive grades in the spirit of "senioritis."
My grades for the semester are as follows:
3 A's (in chorus and pe and play production)
4 B's (all my academic classes)
1 D (calculus - which was taken at a local state college)</p>
<p>The D is not on my high school transcript. However, it is still my single math course for the year.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I won't get rescinded, but will this grade go onto my college transcript? I don't even want to count it for credit. I'd rather just retake calculus.</p>
<p>Please advise me! I'm too embarrassed to reveal my identity to the academic counselors!</p>
College classes taken at a college do indeed go on the college transcript.
While you can (and should) retake courses in which you received a “D,” you cannot pretend it never happened. You are required and expected to send all transcripts of previous college work to USC (or any college you attend from now on) and if you do not you can be rescinded or expelled and if it is discovered after you have graduated your degree can be revoked.</p>
<p>In other words… it is worth a tiny bit of embarrassment now to avoid having to spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder hoping that one “D” is not discovered.</p>
<p>You are a grown-up now - time to start acting like it. Welcome to adulthood. :)</p>
<p>In Minnesota some classes are actually taught in the high school under a local state college authority and I don’t think those classes were recognized by USC as college credit classes. Not sure if there are other similar situations, but it might be worth investigating your particular facts. Either way alamemom is right that you need to provide USC with the facts and then move forward. Your life is not over, it is just getting started. Best wishes!</p>
<p>I will of course send the transcripts in. I was by no means considering hiding it from USC. However, as Raddad described, my calculus course WAS indeed taught at my local high school under the state college’s name. The teacher is a full-time high school employee and also teaches algebra I, etc.</p>
<p>So basically, I will have to carry this D with me all throughout college?! It will factor in as a 2.0 in my college gpa? And when applying to grad schools, will they see this D?</p>
<p>I believed that USC just looked at calculus from high school as a way to earn credits/test into higher level math courses. And so I was hoping that maybe I just wouldn’t get any credits at all.</p>
Yes. Any college you apply to will ask for all transcripts from all college work attempted. From the USC catalog:
No, USC will not factor it into the GPA that appears on your transcript from USC, but they will factor it in when determining if you are eligible to graduate - you must have a 2.0 GPA in all coursework as an undergraduate to graduate. But that really shouldn’t be a problem because one course will not have a huge impact on your GPA. And, um… a “C” would be a 2.0, not a “D.”</p>
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Many high school math teachers also teach courses at community or local state colleges and they are still college courses. Did you receive a grade report from the college? Unless it was only reported on your high school transcript or it was specifically noted as a “non-credit” course, it is a college course. (This is one of the great advantages of AP classes - if you do well, you get college credit, if you do poorly it does not appear on a college transcript. )</p>
<p>The good news is that you are already in USC, and when/if you apply for graduate school they will not care about a college course you took when you were in high school - even one that appears on a college transcript. They really won’t.</p>
<p>lol alamemom’s right man don’t worry about a D that you got in a college level class when you were a senior in high school. By the time you graduate from USC no one will care about that. Just don’t get any D’s at 'SC haha</p>
<p>College courses taken prior to leaving high school:
Students can receive a maximum of 16 elective units for college courses taken before leaving high school. These courses must appear on the college transcript as part of the regular college curriculum and are expected to be taught on the college campus by regular college faculty. </p>
<p>If you got an A they wouldn’t accept it without a petition so I don’t see how they can count it in any way, but you should check with someone in admissions and find out for sure. Best Wishes!</p>