<p>I was accepted to Emory RD, but I'm worried about my grades. All the way up to the last semester of senior year I maintained a pretty solid average (4.00 weighted). This semester I have three AP's and Yearbook. I have an A in AP Environmental Science, and A in AP Literature, and an A in Yearbook. It's BC Calculus that's killing me. I'm failing right now, and I don't think I'll be able to salvage it. I've never even come close to failing a class before, so this is really making me nervous. Could one F get my admission revoked?</p>
<p>Probably, but call the admissions office to find out for sure.
I pretty sure you can salvage a C maybe even a low B. Plead with your teacher it has always worked with me.</p>
<p>Wow, really?! </p>
<p>^ I’ve talked with him about it. It’s a combination of a weak foundation in a few areas (that apparently are all vital to BC Calc) and a few family issues that have been going on. Would an admissions rep be understanding if I sent a very carefully worded email explaining the situation?</p>
<p>@joel96: What weak foundation? Did you not have AB or did you not do that well in AB? Perhaps a carefully worded e-mail could work. Also, I would see how things play out. Are you one of the only among your colleagues struggling in the course. I know AP/honors instructors at many schools (especially ones that commonly send students to top flight schools) often have “protective” curves (despite the fact that the instructor will claim up and down that they don’t do it). Many of the folks I met at Emory who had super high GPAs admitted that hardly no one in their AP courses got below B/B+ and it was not simply because everyone was smart or working hard. While your teacher may certainly go below that range, if more students are struggling, you may likely pass with some sort of C which is okay…</p>
<p>^ I took AB and did fine in it, BC is tricky because it’s a culmination of all the things I had poor instruction with / didn’t fully understand throughout high school. I learned trig in a huge class with a weaker teacher, and precalc was the same way. I just don’t want to spend all of summer dreading an email or letter from Emory.</p>
<p>I talked with my teacher about my fears of having my admission rescinded, and he said that he had only seen this happen once, with a student who was accepted into Georgia Tech. Apparently he blew off all his work and failed all his classes. Is this the typical scenario, or will a school like Emory revoke admission for a single failing grade?</p>
<p>If I contact admissions about it, should I send the letter before school ends, or wait until everything is final? Would it make a difference?</p>
<p>@Joel96: I don’t think Emory’s that tough (I screwed around in an elective class my senior year and made A’s in everything else). At least that was a difficult class. Also, the final grade for the course when averaged across semesters or quarters (what was called “marking periods” at my school) should be passing right? Don’t worry about it too much. Wait until everything is final and try to get in the passing range for the course (don’t have Emory in mind so much as your ego for now). </p>
<p>The class is a semester long, and so far my grade for the semester is failing, in that right now my grade for the whole class is failing. I <em>might</em> be able to get it up to a C weighted (are school is weird with grading; we add ten points to AP classes, but the grade with the ten points shows up as ‘unweighted’ on our transcripts, and the ‘weighted’ grade is just the same grade on 4.00 scale.). Would that likely be overlooked?</p>
<p>@Joel96: Maybe. Just make sure that they’ll give you the weight if your grade is not passing (my school added 3 or 5 to AP and you only got it if the overall grade was passing). Go for the C and you’ll be good for sure. </p>
<p>Hi there. So I’ll give you the truth, or at least from my perspective:</p>
<p>If you’re not failing all of your classes, then they don’t care. I applied ED, got in and slacked hard my second semester Senior year of HS. My final grades were two A’s, three C’s, and a D (I almost failed Physics). I worried for about the first month of summer, then realized that my admission wasn’t getting revoked. Get your High School Diploma, and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>My second semester senior year I only went to about half of the days of school and ended up with 2 D’s and 3 C’s. Emory does not care whatsoever. Mind you I had plenty of C’s on my transcript prior to this as well. </p>
<p>^ That’s good to know.</p>
<p>Update: School’s out, and I finished the semester with three A’s in my other class and a (albeit weighted) B in Calculus, so it looks like I’m good.</p>
<p>Exit grade-angst, enter summer - finally!</p>