I am currently a junior in high school who takes almost all college courses at my community college and plan to graduate high school with an associates degree. One of my classes, Math 171 (Pre Calc), I’m actually failing in and don’t really see any chances for redemption. I would have to retake the class again next semester and am going to strive for an A in all my classes next semester because I recognize that I will have to show improvement and really need these grades. I currently have about a 3.63 GPA unweighted before this semester with all A’s and B’s. I’m predicting this semester to have that failing class, an A (English 111), a B (American History 1), a B or C in my high school class (high school ACA), and another B or C (Public Speaking). If I make this improvement next semester in all my classes including in my retake of Math 171, how will that look on my high school transcript and application to a 4 year college? Does the second grade just completely remove the first grade in the class I had? The college I’m mostly looking to go to is Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) after possibly a gap year
Can you drop the class and get a W, or are you obligated to complete it and have the F or D on your record? A W followed by a re-take later on would look better. Each place you apply to will decide for itself what to do with the course being repeated for a grade.
More important though is why you are failing this class. And why you are expecting C grades in a couple of your other courses. Clearly something is not working for you in your course selection and/or your study habits. How do you propose to change so that you can pull up your frades next term?