<p>This year is a very rough year for me, I headed to the college with all those happiness and I ended up to earn one F's (upper division statistic) and three D's (agricultural econ, calculus ii, and biology) for the whole freshman year. All my other grades are about B's and rarely to see an A.</p>
<p>do you guys think to retake class immediately next semester is good for me, or move on and find a free semester to retake?</p>
<p>And my AD told me I might need to use five or six years to graduate from my pharmaceutical science major, now i am 20 and i will leave college at 26, or even longer, should a delay of graduation hurt my chance to find job in the future?</p>
<p>please help, thank you so much!</p>
<p>Jayson L.</p>
<p>I would not waste money and time at whatever college you are at. I would go to my local community college, save money, get a job, and reconsider why I’m failing and getting so many Ds. You also should contact your current school to make sure you are not on academic probation.
Do not retake these classes immediately. You should try to figure out why you are struggling so much. Make a game plan for next semester. If that means less time socializing and more time studying or studying without facebook open or studying more than just 10 hours the week of the final.</p>
<p>It’s too late now, but why did you take upper division courses (Cal II, Statistic, AG Econ)?
Seems like you stacked the odds against yourself. Your advisor should have suggested that you start with easier gen ed courses and make a degree plan with a mixture of hard + easy courses each semester.</p>
<p>You have to be the judge of whether you are ready to retake those courses. For Statistics, an F indicates you don’t have the foundation. Go to tutorials and get extra help anywhere you can. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about how long it will take to graduate. Your first priority is to figure out how to get back on track. The degree matters way more than how long it took to get it.</p>
<p>With the exception of biology, why did you take upper level courses in your first year? In my opinion, you should definitely retake those failed courses this upcoming semester. I think you should watch calculus, statistics, and biology lectures on Youtube to give yourself a head start for this upcoming fall semester (Khan Academy, video lectures from UCLA, UC Berkeley, etc). Once you start this semester, you’ll already know some of the material from the videos and from last semester, and you’ll get at least a B (especially if curves are given). If you just work your tail off this semester to get at the very least Bs, your GPA will increase dramatically, since these grades will replace the Fs.
I also think you should retake them as soon as possible to retain financial aid (assuming you are receiving it) and you don’t want to waste your time and MONEY! Just remain focused, keep your eye on that Pharm.D degree and you should graduate on time. Don’t hesitate to receive help from tutors, your prof’s office hrs and put in that extra study time. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>You overloaded yourself with what looks like a rather tough forth year semester. I don’t really understand how you were even allowed to take upper level stats in your freshman semester? I’m not aware of AP courses that could get you straight there.</p>
<p>I don’t really agree that you need to head to a community college. You just need to balance your classes better. Yes, a CC could be an option, as it’s really quite difficult to get anything less than a B at a CC. That could certainly boost your GPA. But I don’t know how well that would prepare you for real college work.</p>