<p>Oldfort, I think employers are reasonably forgiving about study abroad grades even if she opts to have them appear on the transcript immediately. During an interview, the key message is: “I had a wonderful experience overseas and learned a lot- clearly, CF was more challenging than I had anticipated, but I’m taking it again at my home college and doing really well so I’m confident in my skills” will do the trick. Nobody will belabor the point unless she gets into a protracted discussion.</p>
<p>And for all you know, the professor has a policy not to give partial credit on the final- which would mean that many students who thought they knew 80% of the material ended up flunking. You just don’t know. So even if her logic and methodology were correct, if her answers were off by a misplaced digit or decimal point, she-- and all her fellow students- would have been graded incorrect (which in fact, it was.)</p>
<p>So sally forward. No more grinding of teeth on this- it is counterproductive and frankly, mitigates some of the advantages of these “life’s lessons”. She could get a case interview during her job search where her interviewer also penalizes for the “wrong answer” (we encourage our interviewers to look for problem-solving creativity and analytical rigor and not to pin everything on the arithmetic, but we do have a few interviewers who are biased against people who can’t do multiplication on a piece of scratch paper). So sometimes you can get almost everything right EXCEPT the mathematically correct answer, and it’s held against you. That’s life- especially in finance.</p>