<p>One of my friends got a D in Honors Physics her senior year. How will this affect her admission to SC? Is there a chance she will be alright? Her unweighted GPA for 2nd semester of senior year is still above a 3.0.</p>
<p>Please give me some advice!</p>
<p>what school are you tlking about? University of California what? or University of Chicago? If its an selective Calli school and your from Calli prob not. If its U Chi maybe? It depends if they even look. I know that at my school they send your first semester grades and after that colleges can check in on a kids grades if they want but prob wont. </p>
<p>and what is with so many people asking questions about their friends? like are you asking bout your self rhetorically? Thats why you have a user name. Afraid to loose CC cred?</p>
<p>i have no cc cred, this happened to a friend of mine unfortunately. university of california, sc is the school and ca resident. i am a soph in college but enough about me</p>
<p>rather than wondering and waiting, your "friend" should pick up the phone this afternoon and call UCSC. For one thing, they're going to find out anyway; it isn't as if they might miss it if you don't bring it up.
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Each year, UC campuses systemwide rescind hundreds of admission offers to applicants who have failed to meet their conditions of admission.</p>
<p>Rescinding admission is a "heart-wrenching" decision, says Mae Brown, assistant vice chancellor and director of admissions at UC San Diego. "By the time we receive the transcripts in late July and we're doing that review, though we notify the student as quickly as we recognize there's a problem, many of their options are already closed."
UC</a> Notes - February 2007 - headline
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Second, taking responsibility and facing up to the situation is the best way to handle this or any other problem. If your "friend" calls now maybe there is something they can do to work it out; a summer course at a CC, for example. Wait until they see the transcript at the end of July and it may be too late.</p>
<p>And even if the answer is the bad news, isn't it better to find out now when there's still time to explore other options for college?</p>
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As an incoming student to UC Santa Cruz, you are responsible for ensuring that your conditions of admission to UC Santa Cruz have been met. Read the Conditions of Admission page in your online offer of admission to fully understand your obligations. If you anticipate any problem that could hinder you from meeting your conditions, please contact the Office of Admissions at (831) 459-2131 as soon as possible.
UCSC</a> Admissions - Orientation
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To follow up to what I posted earlier, your "friend" can read over the Conditions from the online offer and see what it says about D's.</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind is that the admission office usually has some degree of discretion in what they do. Your friend has already taken a bad step; presumably she knew about the D several weeks ago but didn't contact the admissions dept. Note how they say "anticipate"? Colleges are looking for students who are mature and self-reliant, especially at the large state schools like UCSC where there's not a lot of personal advising and support compared to something like a LAC. </p>
<p>If you have a problem while a UC student there are people ready and willing to help, but you're going to have to start the ball rolling yourself. A concern the admissions office is reasonably going to have if your friend never contacts them about this, they're going to wonder "what if she's a student here and in trouble; is she just going to sit on it again and hope it all works out?" This isn't the profile of a good UC student.</p>
<p>So even though it would have been better to have contacted them weeks ago, your friend ought to be on the phone today or Monday and get it resolved. And maybe its good news and they say don't worry. If there is a range of outcomes for getting one D, the way to ensure you get the worst one is to do nothing and wait for the admissions office to find it when they review the transcripts.</p>