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Hi! All,

Need your help! This is for my daughter. She (CA resident) is applying for UC systems (looking for tier 2 schools, like Irvine, San Barbara, Davis… ) and Cal Poly. Her GAP is 4.08 (weighted), but SAT/ACT is not good (1800+/27), looking for a business major. She took 2 AP classes since grade 10.

Her situation is she is taking AP Calculus this semester, and doing not good (current class grade is C-), she may get a D for this semester. She has taken all math classes prior to Calculus. How to handle this situation? She cannot drop off this class at this point when I asked counselor. Below are several options if she gets a D this semester:

(1) Drop off the class for next semester
(2) Continue this class for next semester, she may get a D or C (getting a C is good, showing progress)
(3) Report to the colleges she has applied to (late Dec when we get the grade report). Typically colleges ask students to report any class with D or below, but we may lose some competition.
(4) Don’t report to the college until March when we get admissions from a couple of colleges, and then have a conference with each, tell them the challenge, and find which college might be OK, then take that college’s admission. At that time, her status of this class may not be good
(5) Don’t report the D until the college (which we choose) finds it in June when they verify the official transcript (my daughter may get a chance to get a C for the second semester, which shows progress, or she may pass the AP exam even if she gets two “D”). There were students before (took the same class, they got C, but the AP exam was 5). The math teacher is really making the class harder, and the average grade for the class used to be C, and but 90% of students passed AP class. For this option, we also have risk to be turned down by the ONLY college that we have chosen (if they consider you didn’t report it …), so we may lost all.

Please provide suggestions. Thanks