<p>I was admitted SCEA this year, but there is something that has been on my mind lately. I'm taking dual-enrollment this year at Georgia Tech, a rigorous university well-known for its grade deflation. I'm scheduled to take Calculus III this spring semester, but I'm going to be traveling a lot doing international work and may miss out on a quiz or two (which my professor may or may not feel inclined to give me a makeup.) This is an actual college course with about 4 quizzes and 1 final exam through the whole semester that make up our grade.</p>
<p>Would getting a C in this class lead Harvard to rescind my admission offer? A C appears as an 85 on my high school transcript but a C is still a C on the Georgia Tech transcript.</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>I'm not planning to get a C, and I'm expecting to work as hard as possible on the course. It's just that the intermittent traveling scares me quite a bit.</p>
<p>I doubt one C on your transcript will cause your application to be rescinded, but I would be proactive and talk to your regional admissions director NOW about the issue.</p>
<p>Thanks, @gibby! Will do. Just for clarification, I scheduled my international work (which I couldn’t pass up) before the class schedule and syllabus were released (and they still aren’t released…) So I’m just anxious about conflicting dates.</p>
<p>Have you gotten in touch with the professor yet? If you get in touch with him/her NOW and explain the conflict, they may be able to set up alternate quizzes/dates for you</p>
<p>@BrownParent, I’m only traveling for a week or two at most, but I’m just worried those travel dates will coincide with quiz dates which may not be remakeable.</p>
<p>And yes, I have to take the course because I signed up for it last year. I’m supposed to take Calculus II at Georgia Tech first semester (which I just successfully completed) and Calculus III second semester.</p>
<p>^^But would you still graduate if you withdrew from the class? Most universities allow course withdrawal–although with strict deadlines. Registering for a class is not usually a contract to finish. </p>
<p>It’s a C in a college course, third semester calculus. As long as you don’t get a D, and considering the high level of the course, I don’t think you need to worry.</p>
<p>As for “may or may not be inclined to give me a makeup” - I teach college. Students go to the Dean of Students to get their excuses approved. Assuming you have proof of your travel, it is very likely that you will have permission to make up the quizzes.</p>
<p>Contact the professor and the Dean of Students now, give your travel dates, and provide proof that you are traveling. You should be able to make up the quizzes or have them averaged out of your grade.</p>
<p>Golly. The OP wouldn’t be in the position he’s in now if he weren’t naturally comfortable with high levels of stress and good at converting that stress to positive energy. But I wish he and other students already admitted to the Harvard Class of 2019 could resist the impulse to generate stress for themselves out of absolutely nothing. That’s pretty much what this is. </p>
<p>OP: I know you probably can’t help yourself, this is how you roll. But, dude, try.</p>
<p>Here’s how this plays out, assuming you don’t acquire a serious drug problem in the next few months. You do fine in the course, with or without a makeup quiz. Or maybe you don’t get a makeup quiz, and you get a C. Harvard may or may not write you a letter asking for an explanation of your uncharacteristic low grade. (It is much more likely to write that letter if you have a bunch of uncharacteristic low grades, not just one.) You respond, “I got a zero on a quiz while I was travelling around to save the world.” Or maybe you respond, “Senioritis, sorry. Won’t happen again for at least four years.” Either way, Harvard does not rescind your admission in what would now be June after you have graduated, unless your answer is something like “I was in jail waiting for my trial on multiple rape counts, and they wouldn’t set bail because I’m dangerous.”</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean you should slack off (and thereby lend credence to the notion that some of the people Harvard admits care more about getting into Harvard than about actually learning). You shouldn’t. But it takes more than a C in Calculus III to get your acceptance revoked.</p>