<p>I'm fairly certain I bombed a phys final (solutions have been posted).</p>
<p>Is there any way I can not get a grade for a class or something? :(</p>
<p>I think it's hopeless, eh? :( :( :(</p>
<p>...well you can petition to withdraw the course, but you better have a good reason (health, personal issues, etc.)</p>
<p>I messed up on a course that is not even part of my major, which sucks!</p>
<p>You can withdraw even after the final with a "good reason?"</p>
<p>What is a good reason in the personal issues category? and for just this one class?</p>
<p>Can you please provide a link? I couldn't find anything on the Registrar's page.</p>
<p>Need to act quickly since once the grade is posted next week it'll be permanent (unless you can withdraw even after that, which I think is highly unlikely).</p>
<p>Wow you must have really bombed that final.</p>
<p>How's this? Out of nine problems, I got one completely correct. I'm certain I made mistakes that much of the class wouldn't make.</p>
<p>These might be relevant. I can't find text for the new policy on grades . . . let me look. </p>
<p>From an email forwarded by a leader of the linguistics department.</p>
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Starting Fall 2006, the College of Letters and Science will hold students accountable for problems dealing with classes (supposedly added or dropped, but not) and with grade options chosen.</p>
<p>The following, from Dean Robert Holub, Dean of the Undergraduate Division, says it all!</p>
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<blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Berkeley Division Regulation A201C states that all grades 'are considered final when submitted by an instructor on the end-of-term report.' The only exceptions are in progress (IP) and incomplete (I) grades. Changes to the permanent record are permitted only when there is evidence of non-academic bias in the assigning of grades (A207).</p>
<p>With a goal of bringing office practices into closer alignment with Academic Senate regulations, effective fall 2006 the College of Letters and Science will no longer entertain requests to retroactively change the academic record. This change applies specifically to requests to add, drop, or change the grading option or variable units of a class after the semester has ended. There will be no grandfathering for courses taken prior to fall 2006.</p>
<p>The College will continue its practice of approving transcript corrections in cases of documented University error. University errors are those caused by staff or faculty or by a system malfunction. Transcript corrections fall within the jurisdiction of the Associate Dean in consultation with the Dean of the Undergraduate Division.</p>
<p>The vast majority of students have never requested a retroactive change to their records. However, for those who have come to rely upon this option in the past, the upcoming change in practice could be significant. For this reason, it is imperative that students understand the importance of monitoring their class schedules and take action when they discover enrollment errors or are experiencing personal difficulties that impact performance. In order to make this happen, we need your help.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>
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<p>Please,</p>
<p>*Do not assume that you have been added to a class or dropped from a class by the instructor . Take the time and check your schedule!</p>
<p>*Do pay attention to deadlines if you are thinking of a grade option change or need to add/drop a class.
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<p>Blah. I am not sure how I feel about this policy more closely. Holub is a great guy, and perhaps it does follow the policy, but I imagine some situaitons in which retroactive changes would make sense. Blah.</p>
<p>Huh? I'm confused here.</p>
<p>The quoted text i's from Dean Holub and was emailed to people. I'm pretty sure that the official policies correspond to what is said in the links.</p>
<p>I see nothing about course withdrawal.</p>
<p>What exactly are you considering?</p>
<p>I just don't want to get a really terrible grade. I was wondering if there were a way to just withdraw from a course and get a "W" or something for that course on my record, instead of leaving the entire university as that link suggests.</p>
<p>All I'm asking is if anyone has prevented a grade from showing up after a final exam, and if so how.</p>
<p>Well, take heart...if you really really bombed the class, you can always retake it. A D or F at Berkeley isn't always death.</p>
<p>I am certain I did not get a D or F. But it doesn't have to be those two to consider "bombing"</p>
<p>Aaah. Well, you are a first year right? Grad Schools, much like colleges, tend not too look at Freshman/First Year grades that hard, especially if there is marked improvement. Don't worry too much. I think it would be especially unfair from grad school, if that is what you are worried about, to bounce a kid that might have stellar GREs/LSATs/MCATs/etc. and a decently high GPA just for getting a C in a class. Don't worry. Getting a bad grade sucks, but it is far from the end of the world. If it is a parental issue, Berkeley is a really difficult school. Take heart, kiddo. It gets easier every semester.</p>
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I am certain I did not get a D or F. But it doesn't have to be those two to consider "bombing"
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<p>We are such Berkeley students. </p>
<p>Letters of rec (from professors that love you) = yay.</p>
<p>Really, tend not to look at first year grades? If so, that really motivates me even more to work harder!</p>
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Aaah. Well, you are a first year right? Grad Schools, much like colleges, tend not too look at Freshman/First Year grades that hard, especially if there is marked improvement. Don't worry too much. I think it would be especially unfair from grad school, if that is what you are worried about, to bounce a kid that might have stellar GREs/LSATs/MCATs/etc. and a decently high GPA just for getting a C in a class. Don't worry. Getting a bad grade sucks, but it is far from the end of the world. If it is a parental issue, Berkeley is a really difficult school. Take heart, kiddo. It gets easier every semester.
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<p>Parents don't care.</p>
<p>I'm currently in EECS, which is definitely not a major that gets easier as you go on. Here's the [url=<a href="http://www.placeofrandomness.net/resume.pdf%5Dresume%5B/url">http://www.placeofrandomness.net/resume.pdf]resume[/url</a>] of a CS 61A teaching assistant. Notice how he managed straight A+'s in the lower division series (which I do not have) yet received a B in an algorithms class. Most people in EECS generally agree that upper division technical courses are much, much harder. So "marked improvement" is easier said than done.</p>
<p>I had a great first semester at Cal. So in this case it is not an "improvement." I worked twice as hard as I did in the fall semester and yet I still get owned in physics, the only class I never managed to get an "A" in even once back in high school. I seriously hate it, and yet it's a prereq. for certain EE classes. Argh.</p>
<p>Go talk to an L&S advisor. I'm sorry to reply to this late, and I guess you won't be able to do that if you're already out of Berkeley. But there's a form there that you can fill out for retroactive withdrawal from a course.</p>