<p>So here's the deal. I took a junior level history class as a second semester freshman with the hardest prof in the department, and in addition, and upper level honors bio class when i'm definitely not a science person (i stopped with regular chem after my junior year of high school). It was also my first history class in college, and I'm not a history major.</p>
<p>I got a "C" in both classes last year. </p>
<p>So here's my question, even though all my other grades are good, and i have a stellar list of extracurriculars, pretty good tests scores, will these two Cs absolutely destroy my chances of transferring to an Ivy? I'm now a sophomore, and because of those two classes, my gpa is only a 3.6. </p>
<p>The truth was, I didn't belong in those class and I'm an idiot for taking them. Do you think that the adcoms will have sympathy for the fact that I was overreaching?</p>
<p>Oh, by the way, I go to a state school in New England. And I when I say Ivy...I meant Harvard, Brown, and Stanford (not technically an Ivy but you know what I mean).</p>
<p>I'm not sure about those schools, but I remember watching a documentary about admission to a top LAC and they just saw 1 D in an applicants transcript and threw it away without hesitation. </p>
<p>And maybe you should wait more than 45 minutes to bump?</p>
<p>Was that the one on Amherst College? If so, that was for freshman admissions, which I would expect to be much more stringent because there's obviously a lot more grade inflation in high school than in upper level college courses...</p>
<p>I think it was the Amherst one. There may be more grade inflation, but it was 1 D in I think the freshman/sophomore year of HS. You are a sophmore now so that means you probably have taken only about 10 classes (I don't know if you are a lower/upper sophomore) so that would mean that a C in one class would mean a lot more than a D in a class in HS imo. But hey, if all your other classes are mostly A's and everything else is good enough, why not?</p>