<p>fairy: try the local cc’s in SD- Mesa, Miramar, City, Palomar, Southwestern, MiraCosta. $700 is a lot because you still don’t know if they’ll take you. Call your department. Which college were you admitted to? Marshall, Eleanor?, Revelle? Go through them first! What are your parents saying? Get them involved as well. Don’t write to dean yet because you may have to go through the hierarchy first.</p>
<p>Good luck op</p>
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<p>Presumably, the OP had precalculus the year before, in which a C or higher grade would have fulfilled the math part of the baseline UC/CSU a-g requirements.</p>
<p>However, admission offers from UCs typically do list conditions like getting C or higher grades in all senior year courses, so if the OP had a D in first semester senior year, s/he would have already known in April that any UC admission offer was at risk of being rescinded.</p>
<p>I truly appreciate all the support and help I have been getting 
I am glad I made the right choice to seek help on here.
@aunt my parents are in utter shock. I’ve been working this issue with basically myself and the internet and a friend. My parents aren’t very involved with my educational affairs so Im sorting this out myself. I got accepted to muir. I think I should call thrm tomorrow after I retry calling admissions.</p>
<p>Oh, and the Dean is the dean of the bio dept, not the entire uc.</p>
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<p>You’re right, that seems like a lot of money. But it may actually be a bargain. A similar course at Cal State costs $1580.</p>
<p>[Online</a> Calculus Course : San Francisco State University : College of Extended Learning : Transfer Credit : Cal State, Accredited Distance Education in Mathematics : AP, Pre-Med](<a href=“http://www.cel.sfsu.edu/calculus/]Online”>Courses | Department of Mathematics | San Francisco State University)</p>
<p>But I haven’t done a comprehensive price comparison, so there may be cheaper alternatives out there somewhere.</p>
<p>Call Muir and explain what happened and that you did follow their advice. When you call, tell them that you were just given this information and have found a class at a CC that could replace that D. Ask them if they could admit you as a Spring Admit? You never know! In other words, give them options that you are willing to do. </p>
<p>Additionally, don’t be so down; remember they originally picked you from thousands of applicants, which says something about you. There are tons of students on the wait list.<br>
One year, UCSD “accidentally” sent admissions notices to students that weren’t supposed to receive them and they had to rescind a number of those admissions; they don’t want to do that again so they are careful about who they admit now. </p>
<p>Remember also that a number of students may also be in your position and are as shocked as you are now. It’s how you handle yourself as an adult, and how you approach it, that will make a difference.</p>
<p>OP, I misunderstood your first post, I am sorry. Now I understand that you did indeed drop the course, just not as quickly as would have been most helpful.</p>
<p>Don’t give up! You are getting some good advice – lots of us are cheering you on and hoping you make it through this. I agree with aunt bea ^ Be proud of your maturity in the way you are approaching this. Keep us posted, we want to know how you are doing.</p>
<p>I really hope it works out for you!</p>
<p>In addition to @aunt bea’s post also look into Grossmont College.</p>
<p>haha at first when i found out the news i handled it pretty badly. now i am very hopeful from all this support 
i finished writing my appeal, but the word limit is only 250, so it doesn’t sound that spectacular. i mentioned my family’s financial issues and juggling between the different priorities, and at the end i mentioned that i will take the transferable calculus unit if i were to be granted. is there anything i can add/replace? my appeal is exactly 250 so it’s quite hard to edit it …</p>
<p>@aunt bea i only saw the muir suggestions when i went home from work today. i think i will try tomorrow… :x thank you for sticking with me once again. i owe a homecooked meal…</p>
<p>^^agree with smurray^^ look at grossmont cc.<br>
See if you can add that you “sought their advice early and complied with their advice” and now you are “trusting in them to continue to see you as a future Triton”. </p>
<p>Whatever you do, try to make it positive about your FUTURE and not a whiny sob story (although in some instances that might work). </p>
<p>“As a Triton, I will continue to work at McD’s and help support my family feeling confident that I will be successful at Muir using the tutoring services. Later, I expect to pay it forward and do the same for incoming classmates. Muir has a phenomenal motto: “Celebrating the independent spirit” and I feel that I will add to that program/description/motto by becoming involved in __________________”. Don’t know if that sounds too cheesy, but it’s not mopey.</p>
<p>Use their website’s description of the college and how you will add to that. But definitely go through Muir first.</p>
<p>good luck! Let us know what happens.</p>
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Well, perhaps not exactly. I’ll be the 1st to agree that the UCs are not the most user-friendly places. However all UC campuses make clear that you must notify them if any of a number of things happen, one of which is receiving a grade of D or lower. See [UCSD</a> Admissions: After I’ve Applied](<a href=“http://admissions.ucsd.edu/next/waiting.html]UCSD”>http://admissions.ucsd.edu/next/waiting.html) </p>
<p>I feel bad for the OP. However her/his passivity definitely played a role here. As UC Davis wrote in its alumni magazine
Had the OP notified the school at the end of the 1st semester using one of the methods given on the UCSD link above they would have been able to factor it into the admission decision. Had the OP notified them at the time the offer was extended (or after submitting the SIR) perhaps they could have worked something out, like Davis mentions.</p>
<p>Instead the OP did not notify them in the required manner, ever, consequently UCSD only found out when they got the final transcript in the middle of the summer. Yeah, it may have been mentioned on a phone call (or perhaps all that was said was “I might get a D, then what?”) but that isn’t the notification they ask for on their website (or probably in the conditional acceptance pkg too). </p>
<p>At this late date there may not be options to stay a UCSD student other than an appeal. I hope it works out.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure I understand OP’s story. OP claims to have received a D in first semester calculus, then dropped the class second semester.</p>
<p>OP then says UCSD is rescinding his admission based on that D in first semester. Correct me if I’m wrong, but UC applications are due in November and decisions are released in March, allowing the admissions office time to consider grades from first semester senior year in their decisions. So UCSD should have been well aware of the D when they considered his application in March. </p>
<p>Either something wonky is going on with UCSD and OP should have a pretty easy appeal since they apparently rescinded him for something they were already aware of when they admitted him, or OP is not telling us the whole truth.</p>
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<p>UCs do not require mid-year transcripts or reports (actually, they do not even ask for transcripts at all until the student matriculates – they “trust but verify” self-reported courses and grades). So if an applicant did not inform the UC school of weak senior year performance during the winter, that would not have been considered in the admissions decision.</p>
<p>I only notified the school about my D after I got accepted through the student portal. I thought they would have gotten the note already but I guess they didn’t.
@aunt bea thsnk for the suggestions, I am sending my appeal tomorroe and praying for the best. Otherwise my future is basically done.</p>
<p>^^No your future is is not “done.” There is always a plan B. Say the worst happens and UCSD won’t budge. Well, then you make plan B. Maybe you go to a community college for year and get good grades and transfer in to UCSD or another UC. Maybe you take a gap year and retake the calculus class, get a good grade, and reapply for next year.</p>
<p>You’re what? 18 years old? No way your life is done at this point. Even if it ends up setting you back a whole year, when you are 28 or 30 or whatever this will hardly amount to ripple, much less a disaster. If you build on this and keep going instead of letting it stop you, you will look back on this as an unpleasant episode that turned out okay in te end and taught you some valuable lessons.</p>
<p>@chickenfairy What exactly happened? I’m in the exact same situation as you. Muir and a D in AP Calculus BC. I’d really appreciate it if you could let me know what happened with your situation. Hope all is well, regardless of the result.</p>
<p>Please use old threads for info only. The OP hasn’t posted in 6 months.</p>