<p>Should I drop a class that im doing average on. I think I could have done so much better just the professor made it really difficult. I am looking at a B- / B right now. Or should I just take the grade? Any suggestions?</p>
<p>do you need this class for anything? is it a GE you'd just have to fulfill later on anyway and is that a problem? is it just purely an elective?
last year i took ling 20 because i thought i wanted to minor in linguistics. i hated it, fell behind, and dropped it week 8. i didn't need it for anything (after i determined i didn't like linguistics as a field of study).
you'll need your prof to sign a late-drop form, and you'll pay about $35. you can only do this three times in your whole time at ucla (late drops are week 8 and on) so plan wisely.
would your GPA be greatly affected by this class? if it's a class you don't need, dropping may be best (IMO if it's a B- or worse, but not so much a B) but it's really up to you to chart the whole cost/benefits for yourself.</p>
<p>Take the grade.</p>
<p>Well I do need it for my major. And I have enrolled in the Math class following this one. So I am not sure what to do.</p>
<p>Omg A B! Its The End Of The World!</p>
<p>just stick with it then. it's not worth the extra hassle dropping it will create. and you can't expect to drop any class in which you're not doing as well as you had hoped.</p>
<p>i find it really funny when people blame the teacher for their bad grades. wow..</p>
<p>i'm looking at B for a class and i'm not dropping it. i worked my butt off for those 5 units that will count toward grad. a B is not the end of the world, seriously.</p>
<p>I would be happy with a B but anythign lower is what I am worried about. According to our professor he plans on making the final pretty hard.</p>
<p>OK, so the final turns out to be hard and you bomb it. You end up with a C. This is actually pretty hard to do, and depending on how the final's weighed, you might have to fail it outright to get a C for the course.</p>
<p>So you got a C? It's your FIRST QUARTER, and I know it's trite, but it's true: you're in college. One C isn't the end of the world; hell, even a few Cs aren't gonna break you. Keep things in perspective and just study more for the final.(Though if it's from Chayes, then I'd be worrying.)</p>
<p>Yeah I am taking Chayes math 32A. And the final is worth 50% of the grade..</p>
<p>ew.</p>
<p>my first quarter i got a B-, a B, and an A. for me not too great a start, and considering the B- was physics 10, a bit embarassing. but in physics 10 a B- was basically the minimal-effort grade, and you had to really try to get anything lower, so it's not like the mean was a C.</p>
<p>i'm still trying to raise my GPA, but, the good news is since i started low, i've got plenty of time to raise it up. besides upward trends are always a good thing ;)</p>
<p>if i hadn't needed physics 10 for anything, i probably wouldn't have seen it through, but i would have had to take it at some point anyway, so... bleh.</p>
<p>you'll live lol. just study! your grade has not been determined yet!!!</p>
<p>if it makes you feel any better i'm getting f***** over in chem and the best i can hope for is a C, MAYBE C+/B-.</p>
<p>woohoooooooooo! (not really)</p>
<p>but life goes on..</p>
<p>and ktcv it doesn't sound like he's "blaming" the teacher, but regardless, a professor can have a lot to do with your grade lol</p>
<p>Anybody know if a math class can be taken at a comm. college over summer and have it transferred to fulfill a pre-major requirement?</p>
<p>edit: sry to hijack the thread :T</p>
<p>I teach at UCLA (not under this name) and some of the time I read graduate applications for my department. Trust me: a low grade doesn’t look nearly as bad on a transcript as a late drop. Low grade means “not your best field” or “had a bad quarter”. A late drop suggests: “flake”, “not well-organized”, "not serious’', or even “not brave” – all of these being things a graduate program hates to see in its applicants. If you think you have graduate school applications in your future, I urge you to tough out a hard course and not do the late drop thing.</p>
<p>*i find it really funny when people blame the teacher for their bad grades. wow… *
Asad Abidi. End of story.</p>
<p>^ Hahahaa… </p>
<p>[Daily</a> Bruin :: Students claim professor was unfair in grading system of electrical engineering class](<a href=“http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/05/students-decry-poor-grades-engineering-class]Daily”>http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/05/students-decry-poor-grades-engineering-class)
The chart in the link tells everything. Funniest thing, the professor doesn’t get why they’re doing so bad. Gee, I wonder…</p>
<p>Have you tried studying for the final?</p>