<p>Okay not going to rant but basically I bombed my AP Chem, Calc2 (ap equiv), and physics midterms because I had food poisoning the day before these exams. My grades for the first and second semester are fine high A's an high B's. I'm applying to very selective schools so my guidance counselor asked if it was okay for her to add a note on my behalf explaining the drop on the midterm grades. Do you think I should allow it? Or will that turn off admissions counselors?</p>
<p>I think it would benefit you for your guidance counselor to write the note.</p>
<p>If you had food poisoning, why didn’t you stay home and take the tests later?</p>
<p>lol no offense but it sounds like bs to me. Imagine all the people that could say something like “I had food poisoning the day before” as an excuse for not doing well on exams. And wouldn’t it really affect you if it was ON the day of exams, rather than the day before? But yeah it would help a bit if your GC was willing to do that. I only wish my counselor was that nice tbh</p>
<p>Did you go to school that day because you didn’t want to miss the exams? Well now you know to stay home when you are not feeling well. Next time ask your physician for a note so that you can take the exam a day or two later. Teacher (and college professors) will almost always work with you on this kind of thing.</p>
<p>Instead of taking the exams, it would have been better for you to reschedule. You can’t change anything now but getting your counselor to write a note would help.</p>
<p>College professors will not always work with you on this kind of thing, actually. </p>
<p>I’m sorry this happened to you. Try not to stress it to bad and get the counselor to write the note, if you can. In the meantime, the past is in the past. You can do nothing but move forward.</p>
<p>It’s too bad your teachers didn’t give you a chance to do a make up exam, or to do some extra credit to make it better, but them’s the breaks.</p>
<p>Good luck to you. Worrying about it now won’t change things, it’ll just be more worry. All you can do in life is do the best you can and let go of the results.</p>
<p>Truth is, reasons/excuses are never a substitute for performance, unless if the reason/excuse is heroic - such as saving a life and getting hurt in the process.</p>