<p>It is looking like Im going to get a D this quarter in spanish III, and nothing I can do about it. My grades are otherwise decent, 85's and higher, a few high A's (98's), and a GPA of like 3.5. My SAT score is a 1930, 670M, 630R, 620W. I am in mostly honors and AP classes. How much will this D hurt my chances of getting into schools like Virginia Tech (my #1 choice)?</p>
<p>To be blunt, yes.</p>
<p>Is there any way you can make that up?</p>
<p>Bummer. Nope not really, my Spanish teacher hates me…lol. I mean it’s possible I could end up with a extremely low C, but that’s it. Quarter ends Wednesday. :(</p>
<p>Can you retake the class in summer school? Doing so will give your GPA a boost and show colleges that you’re willing to learn from your mistakes and try again… which is good.</p>
<p>Maybe. I’d need to find out the dates of summer school…I have Leadership Academy for NJROTC 19-26 of June, and Nationals for FBLA 13-18 of July. There would likely be a conflict somewhere. Stressful, I never should have taken Spanish III. Worst decision of my life, which I guess means I’m doing pretty good in general.</p>
<p>Languages are for the most part, a *****…so just try to do your best for the rest of it, and then see what happens.</p>
<p>colleges look for continuity in your foreign language studies, so it wasn’t a bad decision to take it, but why did you have to get a D? I couldn’t have been THAT hard…</p>
<p>One- schools don’t see your quarter grades, they only see your semester grades.
Two- if that’s your only blemish, you may be OK.
Three- you look like you’re smack in the middle of VT’s middle 50% (scores near the higher end, GPA toward the lower end) so I wouldn’t be too worried. </p>
<p>Work hard next quarter and get up your semester grade.</p>
<p>@ thrill3rnit3</p>
<p>Just because it’s not hard at YOUR school doesn’t mean it’s not hard at EVERY school. I had a ridiculously hard Spanish III and IV teacher at my school. ONE student in two years got an A, half the class always dropped at the semester. Every student in her AP class got a 5 on the AP test. She is a RIDICULOUSLY hard teacher. I got low Bs/high Cs in her class and now I have a 98% in my college Spanish classes. It’s really annoying when people assume that just because a class is easy at their school that it’s easy at EVERY school. Ugh.</p>
<p>I just haven’t been able to grasp any of the concepts we’ve learned this quarter. First quarter I got an 80, second I got an 85, and on my midterm I got an 87. This quarter just blew for some reason lol.</p>
<p>Oh really? Now I’m determined to get an A next quarter 
. It is my only blemish, besides the fact that my GPA is not stellar overall.</p>
<p>^I’m giving up French after this Year because I went gradually from an A to a C since the end of middle school. It’s annoying, especially when your teacher in Middle School is 8000x better than your High School teacher. I’ve taken it for 3 years.</p>
<p>of course it will and you know it. your just asking for a glimmer of hope. sadly, there is none.</p>
<p>Well obviously I knew it would. I was wondering how severely it would. Thanks for your 2 cents though.</p>
<p>^^^My middle school language teacher was infinitely better than my high school language teachers as well. She could teach the entire language department since she’s fluent in six languages.</p>
<p>Too bad she’s sixty-five, blind in one eye, and retiring :[</p>
<p>Omg I’m in the same boat as you, except with chemistry.
In the first and second quarters I got a 95 both times, but then for the third quarter I got a 68, which is a D.
I don’t know what to do. We had a sub because my teacher was on maternity leave. He was just a horrible teacher.
And the low grade was because I didn’t hand in ONE 100-point lab. If that assignment didn’t exist I would have gotten an 84.
I really needed good grades this year as well, because my GPA is definitely not as high as yours. (I think I got a 2.07 in 9th grade) I was counting on a sharply increasing trend to help me.</p>
<p>@romanipigypsyeyes: I never said anything you assumed. I was just wondering if the guy could’ve done something to prevent him from getting a D. A D just looks bad, no matter how you look at it, and colleges certainly don’t give a rat’s ass whether it was an “easy” class or a “hard” class, especially because they don’t have a quantifiable measure of the difficulty of a class relative to other schools.</p>
<p>Depends on how your school reports them. If it’s quarterly it’s a blemish, for sure. Won’t keep you out, but looks really bad. That’s almost borderline failing.</p>
<p>But if your school does semesterly or yearly, you might still have hope.</p>
<p>How would I know how my school reports grades?</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor.</p>
<p>They report grades that are officially in the end of your grading period, whether it be quarterly, semester, or trimester grades. They don’t report grades that are midway in the grading period. So it depends whether your school operates in a quarter, semester, or trimester basis.</p>
<p>Sounds like they would report quarterly then. We get report cards 4 times a year…</p>