<p>I think I want to retake a class or two at my undergrad school. How bad does that look for applying to grad school? I am a junior bioengineer and am looking into grad programs. I have a 3.5 GPA right now and have time to play with since I could graduate early but don't really want to. I am already involved with research and will have time for advanced grad level classes so I wont be missing out on any of that resume building stuff. I REALLY want to retake biology 1. I got a C+ in that class, which isn't terrible I know but I really love that material and wish I had learned it better. The class is basically a cell biology class and since I want to go into stem cell research I would love to know that class backwards and forwards. It would also raise my GPA to about a 3.6 which would be nice. The other class I am considering is thermodynamics. Its a class I know I could do really well in but I was just to busy to focus on it last semester and got a C+. I know a lot of you are going to tell me not to take it again but its very tempting when it could bring me up to almost a 3.7 (which is in the range for a lot of grad programs I am looking at). The only other C I have is in fluid mechanics and I would never ever ever put myself though that class again haha. So what are your opinions on what I should do?</p>
<p>Pay attention to the policies of schools’ departments you are thinking of applying to. The information will be there somewhere in the info for prospective grad students. Some will average your grades or otherwise penalize you. Instead of repeating an elementary Biology course there should be another more advanced course you can take. If you did C work in courses relevant to your proposed field of study, and hated them- do you think you would survive grad school in that field? Definitely discuss this with your advisor, that person will know more. Remember that you can always do some self study of biology, easy to reread the book and study the lecture notes to learn material you didn’t learn during the course.</p>