<p>I'm a community college student that was accepeted into Berkeley. I just got my grades today A,B,B,C and C. Now I'm scared I might have my admission rescinded. I'm totally stressed out I don't know what to do. Should I try to convince one of my teachers to change my grade if that's even possible or any tips. I don't know what to do I'm going crazy.Please help! What should I do?</p>
<p>what does your transfer admission contract say? usually they just require like a 2.8 overall for admission. If you have that then you have no worries. If you fell below what the contract says then you might run into trouble.</p>
<p>my admission contract says I need to maintain a 3.0 gpa but I got 2.89</p>
<p>contact your admission officer</p>
<p>yes do that</p>
<p>If there are any “scantrons” involved in exam grades you can ask to check for incomplete erasures and such–my kids have sometimes found this helpful. Asking to change your grade is kind of slimy (without reason anyway–you could argue you deserve more credit on something if you can come up with a legitimate reason), but asking if you can do extra credit if you’re withing a point or two probably wouldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>Did you take winter section? If you did, you can also add that up see if you get 3.0.</p>
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Thank you!</p>
<p>You’re fine. As long as your grades don’t drag your overall GPA below a 3.0 then you’re okay.</p>
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<p>The OP got a 2.8.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard and after talking to admissions, I’ve been told that in only extreme cases do they rescind your application.</p>
<p>2.8 one semester won’t really kill you. As long as your overall community college gpa doesn’t fall below a 3.0 after this semester (includes every class that you took when you started). And it doesn’t look like it will given that you had a solid gpa and got accepted to Berkeley :)</p>
<p>Just don’t stress out. Call them and just let them know your situation if you want to be absolutely positive (in fact you should, you won’t worry anymore afterwards). It’ll all be okay.</p>
<p>Good luck and post back to let us all know how it goes!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who replied. I spoke with my admission officer and she told me to e-mail her an explanation of what happened. My explanation is a couple weeks before finals my mom found a text to another woman in my dad’s phone and since then they have been fighting daily and I usually end up in the fights on my mom’s side, because I know she’s right. These fights usually end up at least a hour or more and during finals they had a few fights. Which took my focus off of finals and I just couldn’t concentrate after the fights, because I was so frustrated. I made a mistake by doing most of my studying at home rather than at school ( I usually study at home and find it the best place to study for me). This is my explanation, but I don’t want to use it because I feel she will think I’m lying. Most tstudents probably use personal issues as a reason, so I assume she will think I’m lying. My question is should I tell her what happened or come up with something else?</p>
<p>I suggest you do not use that as an explanation to justify your breaking of the contract. Instead, be straight forward, concise, and admit you slipped a little. I highly doubt you’d be rescinded for falling below .1 of the required GPA. So don’t mention something so personal and unverifiable as that.</p>
<p>I would just state how family problems have come up and have stressed you out, taken your mind off concentrating. hopefully that will work for you~</p>
<p>I wish that would work with my job. But I think a sob story is a fallacy.</p>