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The people who are saying that one C will kill her chances are wrong; and the people who are saying one D will kill her chances are also wrong.
It is ONE grade. I know several admits to very prestigious universities (and I am at Columbia now) who had one or two low grades on their transcripts. I myself had a C on my high school transcript and got full ride scholarships to tier 2 schools and got into some tier 1 schools as well. Colleges and universities are not expecting you to be perfect; they understand if you flub up in one class.
Also, it's somewhat unlikely that a school would rescind admissions for one D. The UC system may be different, I don't know. If your daughter showed a growing downward trend, like she just stopped caring about school altogether, that would be different. But if she's doing well in all her other courses and this one D is obviously an anomaly, I don't think they would rescind based on that.
I second the advice to wait until admissions decisions come in, and then proactively explain that she got a D in this one class (or a C-, or whatever she has at that time) but have a letter explaining it and maybe a letter from her counselor reaffirming her counselor's belief that she belongs at that school. I also second calling the schools' admissions offices and seeing what grounds for rescinding admissions is.
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