<p>As of now these are my grades:
9th Grade Summer
Health Education: A/A</p>
<p>9th Grade:
Honors English A/A
Physcal Education A/A
Biology A/A
Honors World History A/A
Basic Geometry B/B
Spanish 3/4 C/B
Orchestra A/A</p>
<p>10th Grade Summer:
Chemistry B/B</p>
<p>10th Grade
Honors English A/A
Physical Education A/A
AP European History B/C
AP Environmental Science B/B
Algebra II C/D
Spanish 5/6 B/B</p>
<p>I have been getting average grades in OK classes but now... I HAVE A D IN ALGEBRA II IT'S A 60% AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO??!!!?? </p>
<p>I have a tutor, but even that isn't helping. I have a meeting with my counselor tomorrow to talk about alternatives and I want as many opinions as possible on what I should do and anything else you can think of...</p>
<p>And do you think this will severely hurt my chances for admissions to let’s say… a UC or NYU…</p>
<p>Retake it, and don’t take AP Calculus.</p>
<p>Retake it. Whatever math you take next, you’ll do better if you understand algebra better than you do now.</p>
<p>Sorry you’re struggling, but huge respect for confronting the problem and trying to do something about it!</p>
<p>Thank you guys so much! But I have now (somehow…magically I think) brought it up to a 67%… should I retake it if I get a C?</p>
<p>Yes, I do. If you take math long enough, you’ll eventually reach a point at which your classes don’t really build directly on the one that came before. But that’s a long way off. Any math you take for the rest of high school will rely on your knowledge of Algebra II. If you have a C- knowledge of Algebra II, it’s going to be mighty hard to get an A-, or even a B-, in Precalculus (or Functions & Trig, or whatever you take).</p>
<p>I don’t think you could get into NYU …and a UC depends on which one there’s vast variance in their quality.</p>
<p>SIKORSKY- Um, it turns out that I will only be in town (actually my country of residence) for the second semester of summer school… should I still take it over if it’s only one semester???
MISSOURIBOY- At this point I don’t care what UC, any one will do I really don’t care at this point…
*Sorry for being a bother…</p>
<p>Well, that’s a complication! I think so. I think some additional practice in algebra is better than none. But a whole Algebra II class would be better still.</p>
<p>I’d suggest online, but I don’t know whether there’s a really good online algebra program for people whose main thing is not math. That might be a question that’s worth asking in a new thread.</p>