<p>So I am attempting to major in Economics, and currently am a student at Santa Monica College. Over summer I took micro-econ, and due to lack of effort, ended up extremely borderline with a 75 going into the final. After calculating the finals impact (no where near that of most teachers) I realized that the best grade I could achieve would be a 78.5. My teacher made it clear he considered borderline 1 percent, and that was the cutoff he would consider for bump up. I decided that if I miss the final, he will surely give me a D. Although the D wont look great on my transcript, it will allow me to re-take the class at a later time and boost my UC GPA as well as Santa Monica GPA. Turns out, I ended up with a C and am now stuck with the grade. What should I do? Should I contact the teacher and ask for a D? Anyones advice?</p>
<p>You can ask for a D? Never heard of that.</p>
<p>But if its just one C and your GPA is good then it wouldn’t really matter much. Also if your schedule requires a boat load of classes, I wouldn’t waste my time for just one class I did bad on, unless my GPA is already bad.</p>
<p>take the C. no teacher would ever fudge the numbers purposefully give you a D even if you “asked them to”.</p>
<p>If you got a C, then that means he probably curved the grades. I think you should have taken that final, you probably would have earned a B or A depending on how much the final was weighted. </p>
<p>Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk, but I hope that you learned your lesson. The key to success is showing up!</p>
<p>Anyways, my opinion: Take the C or ask the teacher if you can take the final (probably not going to happen, but some teachers may be sympathetic). As missamericanpie says, you cannot simply “ask” for a D, they give the grade they give</p>
<p>Yeah I know it sounds weird, but at the end of the semester he gave us the option to request a D, only if we wrote him a letter. He was a terrible teacher and as a result kids were crying (literally) prior to the final. My class was mostly made of USC and UCLA students not used to getting below average grades.</p>