<p>I'm sure this is a trivial question, but it's been on my mind for a while haha.</p>
<p>I failed a calculus course about a year ago, and since then I've retaken it and gotten my GPA up. On the UC application however, how do we insert a failed/retaken grade or course? I've just started on the filling-up portion of the application, and this just came to mind. </p>
<p>All responses are greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>they know that you retook it because you put the course down twice (one time with an F)</p>
<p>is it bad if they find out you retook a course?</p>
<p>it’s not a **good **thing to retake a class but if you did better your second time around they will obviously view that better than doing poor in the retake.</p>
<p>and the original class that you screwed up on is on your transcript so one way or another, they’ll find out</p>
<p>@OP</p>
<p>did you do a academic renewal sort of thing?
where you go to your schools records office and ask them to pull out the D/F?</p>
<p>(of course this would be reported on the app when transferring but it is excluded from the GPA calculation … unless your school factors in ALL grades including D’s & F’s)</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses!</p>
<p>No no, I didn’t do academic renewal; I just retook the class and got a B in it, though I’m still worried it’ll look horribly bad. </p>
<p>The story behind the failing grade is one of personal family matters and my own inability to drop the class properly. Once I realized I hadn’t dropped…too late, the drop date had passed. Completely my fault to have not realized, but I still feel rather bad considering it was a stupid mistake on my part -_-</p>
<p>Exactly how would I go about explaining that on a personal statement? I think it would look bad, but eh.</p>