<p>would anyone else like to share their story?</p>
<p>i need help.</p>
<p>i did that once, 75 on first midterm, 90, 94, and 98 on the rest, i managed to let the prof give me an A. (we dont' have plus or minus)</p>
<p>You know my story.</p>
<p>My suggestion: speak to the professor. Was it one bad performance that's killing an otherwise consistantly great average? If so, you have a good case for "extenuating circumstances." </p>
<p>Don't get argumentative. Don't say that you "deserve" a better grade -- that's a surefire way to get them to send you away. Don't say that they made a mistake, say that YOU made a mistake or have a question about something. </p>
<p>As a converse to my happy D-to-A story: I got a C+ in a class I was earning A-/B+ papers in because the professor outlined a very strict, no-excuses policy about late work. Even with documented visits to the psychologist, that woman didn't forgive my paper being a day late. >_<</p>
<p>this is my story:</p>
<p>I'd say BruinMichelle's advice is very sound! </p>
<p>To reiterate what has already been said, though: You need to be in their faces (not confrontational, but <em>there</em>). They will forget about you if you don't bring it up, and the head of the department will likely find something else to do with his time because if you don't care enough to remind him often and update him, he won't care enough to wade through the bureacracy for you. </p>
<p>I got in good with the head of the department for my grade change by going to visit him at office hours, providing documentation of all of the work I'd completed in the class, and occasionally emailing him and asking if there was anything else I could do to facilitate the process for me. The turnaround from start to finish was about 4 weeks, so you probably won't get a chance to get this fixed before you leave, but if you get it started <em>now</em> it won't interfere with your ability to take French 2.</p>
<p>As far as whether you can take that even with an F in French 1? I would say that depends on the professor. Email the professor with your situation and see what he says; I'm willing to be that if you can prove compentency to the level he expects for students entering his class, he'll let you take it and the French 1 will (even if it's an ugly mark) be no problem.</p>
<p>Good luck and let us know how it goes!</p>
<p>thanks undecided.</p>
<p>I just e-mailed the French II professor to let him know what was going on.</p>
<p>I had e-mailed him earlier about how I didn't feel comfortable with my French to take French II this summer since my French I class at the other CCC was a bit ridiculous with all the movies and potlucks so the class wasnt exactly learning the language efficiently, but he said it was fine.</p>
<p>So in this latest e-mail I mentioned that, also including a copy of the e-mail I sent to the foreign language dept. chair about my French I professor's evil ways.</p>
<p>I also let him know that I am aware that in order to take French II, I must fulfill the French I prerequisite though I am not sure if I will be able to get the grade fixed by June 13th when the class starts. I have already signed up for the French II class, so I asked if it's possible for me to stay in it and that I am willing to, even with the risk of my credit getting cancelled later since this upcoming fall I am applying to transfer to a university as a Global Studies/International Relations major, so I plan on writing about my experience in Paris this summer in my personal statement essay and I know I would have a much better time to experience and write about if I was able to learn/practice French there.</p>
<p>run-on sentence, sorry.</p>
<p>but yes, thanks for the luck! i hope it all works out somehow or that my grade is just suddenly changed like yours was. haha.</p>
<p>If my D can become an A overnight, I'm sure things'll work out for you. :D</p>
<p>Sounds like you did exactly what you should have done. So, again, good luck and enjoy Paris. :)</p>
<p>It depends on teacher....I persuaded my Writing teacher to change my grade from B to an A</p>
<p>picturesque, i am not sure what happened to your grade, was it an error, or was it because you didn't do well due to the way he teaches?</p>
<p>I missed an A in one of my classes by 1/400th of a point... I had to write a 1000 word paper to get the extra point but I got the A.</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>So I didn’t do part of the semester’s assignment for my class the reason i never did was because i kept forgetting about it and putting it off now my final grade is D b/c of the missing assignments it would have been a B had I done them, I can easily do them now (we have to write a few posts relating to the readings) but should I ask the professor if she’s willing to change my final grade if i do complete these assignments the date all grades have to be turned in is in like 4 days so i don’t know if it easier to change a final grade or not but should i even bother asking? The change wouldn’t severely affect my cumulative gpa but a D looks awful on a transcript and that’s my main concern</p>
<p>that’s completely your fault if you kept forgetting about it, that’s not a legitimate excuse at all…</p>
<p>i had a:
93 business project grade = 50% of my grade
92 quiz avg = 30% of my grade
70 participation = 20% of my grade</p>
<p>My teacher gave me a B-. i argued with her and got a B… that’s as much as i got lol. you just have to have good points. say you need a certain gpa to maintain your scholarships, and explain WHY u deserve a higher grade.</p>
<p>grahamscr, forgetting about it isn’t a good excuse at all. I wouldn’t even try.</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback, i know it’s definitely a risk asking for a grade change b/c i deserve that grade and being a procrastinator is not a valid reason but i’m worried b/c its a class for my major and the prof is also my major advisor ( i don’t plan on asking him for any recs for anything) but if he did expect me to contest my grade i guess he would have mentioned my low grade before inputting the final grades, right?</p>
<p>If you go to class, participate, do your work, and come to office hours when necessary, its very easy to bump your grade up a bit (at least in most State Universities). Why? Because most students don’t do one or more of the four. If you do, your professor or instructor is very likely to be sympathetic to you. </p>
<p>If you don’t do all of the four, forget about it. Its embarrassing that many students who have not done one of those four things are frequently the ones lining up outside with angry expressions upon their face. They feel entitled to a grade they do not deserve. </p>
<p>But other than that, its pretty easy.</p>
<p>He didn’t expect you to contest it because you have no reason to. It’s your fault.</p>
<p>As noted in some of the posts above, there’s always a chance to raise your grade a bit, and it doesn’t normally hurt to try, although some DO reserve the right to lower your grade if they ask you to re-examine your work.</p>
<p>That said, it’s generally a long-shot. The first rule of college is “The customer is always wrong.” and the processes for grade review are generally set up to minimize the number of changes that actually get through.</p>
<p>What you should have done (at the start of the semester) was think about what kind of person your prof is and give him what he wants. Be nice. Speak up in class and make him feel like he and his subject are important. Build his self-esteem and you won’t have to ask. He’ll give you the best grade he can the FIRST time because he’ll want to. This is especially true in humanities classes.</p>
<p>As noted in some of the posts above, there’s always a chance to raise your grade a bit, and it doesn’t normally hurt to try, although some DO reserve the right to lower your grade if you ask them to re-examine your work.</p>
<p>That said, it’s generally a long-shot. The first rule of college is “The customer is always wrong” and the processes for grade review are generally set up to minimize the number of changes that actually get through.</p>
<p>What you should have done (at the start of the semester) was think about what kind of person your prof is and give him what he wants. Be nice. Speak up in class and make him feel like he and his subject are important. Build his self-esteem and you won’t have to ask. He’ll give you the best grade he can the FIRST time because he’ll want to. This is especially true in humanities classes.</p>
<p>I actually contacted my professor BEFORE he was going to submit the final grade since i already had a sense of what it was going to be. I studied very hard for the final but found it a lot harder than I had expected (half of what was on there I hadn’t even studied). I felt for sure that I was going to fail it and end up with at least a C in the class and if I was a lucky a C+. I contacted him right after the exam and explained my situation and the exam. I didn’t do well on a previous exam either and he refused to give me the chance to do corrections or extra credit so I was worried about how I would do in the class overall. Somehow he ended up giving me a B. Even though my grades in that class would have ended me up in the C range, I guess the e-mail helped somehow. I had also gone to his office hours before for help so I’m sure he figured that I had tried in the course and wasn’t just trying to change a grade for no reason.</p>