<p>When I was a silly, apathetic, and moronic freshman, I let my second semester English grade slip to a D. Yeah, it's probably one of my biggest regrets.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'll be a senior this year, and considering that I actually want to go to college now, I'll have to make it up with a BYU Independent Study course. I won't be able to afford that course, though, until after school starts (probably not until a few weeks in).</p>
<p>Will it be a problem if I haven't finished the course by the time I'm applying to college? I'd be taking it, but will it affect my GPA at all, or at least show up that I'm taking it? Or is it entirely irrelevant until the course is finished?</p>
<p>I don’t understand why you feel the need to re-take freshman English during your senior year of HS. Will your high school allow you to use the online course to replace the grade on your HS transcript? Did your guidance counselor tell you that this is necessary?</p>
<p>If this one bad grade is your only bad grade, just let it go. Save your energy for your senior year classes.</p>
<p>If applying to state universities that require a minimum of 8 semesters of English courses with C or higher grades, then a student in the OP’s situation needs to somehow make up or repeat the semester with the D grade, or take a qualifying elective English course.</p>
<p>Yeah, Ucbalumnus is right. (:
I can graduate high school with the grade as it is, but I’d be applying to UCs and I feel they wouldn’t be very fond of the idea of just leaving the grade as it is. </p>
<p>I should still have time to focus on the rest of my classes, so long as I plan. I just need to know how the course will look to colleges if it’s not yet completed when I apply.</p>
<p>My daughter had a couple of friends that got a B in physics and retook it senior year to raise it to an A, so they could raise their gpa for scholarships. Not sure on the timing though in your situation, talk to your school counsler and even the college you want to go to . They can tell you also if it’s worth it. If you can fit it in and it’s no big deal , I saw a few kids doing it and it paid off for them.</p>