<p>I think I've met my match. After a year of school, I've held a 4.0 and taken all necessary courses (no blowoff electives). But, after I finished Cal 2 I got a little ballsy and decided to take Cal 3 this summer. The class is 8 people and everyone in there is just trying to pass because they're already AT the school they want to be at, just taking a class back home. I, on the other hand, must have an A. The combination of an ambiguous teacher that tries to teach us everyone (although he's a nice guy) and cramming what is becoming the most difficult calculus course into 8 weeks is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Like I said, I can pass and guarantee a B, but I can't say the same for an A. So far, I've dropped one course in my college career - Accounting I (online). I couldn't do it online, it was too boring. </p>
<p>So my question is, should I stay in the course and risk getting a B or should I drop the class? Which will look better?</p>
<p>Where are you trying to transfer? What will you want to major in? I don't think a B is a disaster in a Calc3 (or any) course. My tendency would be to stay with it.</p>
<p>i'm at a community college and my teacher is a PHD from Cal. He's really so smart that it could be a good thing if he didn't expect us to get everything immediately. I'm applying to BU, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, UT, Chicago, NYU, and Penn. I'll be majoring in Economics, or business administration if I go to UT or NYU. I'm kinda thinkin of dropping the course now and then taking it next semester in a full semester sitting. It's just really hard to cram everything in so quickly.</p>
<p>Just wondering, will the ucs know which courses you dropped out of at the ccc when you transfer ? Does it depend on how early or late into the course that you decide to drop?</p>
<p>i think when you drop a course, it appears on your transcript. But i say drop it and take it in the fall. It's so hard to take summer courses- the time crunch+ ITS SUMMER! (You aren't very motivated to do any school work)</p>
<p>lol yes so did i to be honest i think the course isn't THAT hard because if I go home and read the book, I can understand it. And on the test, I understood everything except the equations of lines and planes in space, which were skimmed over in class and in a foreign language. I only need Cal I and II to transfer, I just wanted to look like a badass.</p>
<p>If it were me I'd stick with it. I think a 4.0 is overrated. A little diversity in your GPA (say a 3.93) shows that your willing to stick with a course despite it's difficulty in the interest of a rigorous academic career. </p>
<p>I don't know about anyone else but when I hear a person has a 4.0 GPA it's makes me a little suspect. I always think in the back of my head, how did this person gerrymander his courses to get a GPA like that in very challenging courses. Though it may be just because I'm jealous.
If you know your not going to do well than drop it. Otherwise stick with it, you never know what could happen</p>
<p>lol thats a good point i was kinda thinking...which one is really better a 4.0 or 3.95? Does it really matter? I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, it'll depend on my test grade tomorrow, but thanks for all the input. If I don't take it now, i'll just do it in the spring.</p>