A pretty lousy midyear report

enderkin
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:47:09 +0000

So, my school has this policy with midyear reports–they don’t fill them out, but instead just send a report card with the 1st and 2nd quarter (no midterm, thank god).

AP Lit: B-/A+ <----Teacher has very limited view of what is a ‘good’ essay; took me a while to adapt to his style
AP Physics: B-/B- <---- hardest class in school, teacher centers tests so that the average is a C
AP Psychology: B+/C+ <----OMG WTH?
AP Statistics: B/B+ <----hilarious teacher, Cuban accent, impossible to tell what he’s saying but it’s Statistics so that’s OK.
Senior Seminar: A-/A- <----the teacher of this is the advisor for 2 of the clubs I’ve started. Lot of leeway.

I made the stupid mistake of thinking that senior year was worth nothing (not to mention the hell that is college apps), so I dropped a lot of studying for school and instead went full throttle into Mock Trial (we’re going to states again this year). So the classes where I did not need to memorize things (Lit, Stat, Seminar) I did fine in, but the ones where I needed to constantly practice (Physics, Psych) I’ve done horribly in.

I applied to Ivy-caliber schools. Laugh.

If it were an average, I’d be OK with it, but the grades are what will show on the report. My Physics teacher wrote a rec, so he might explain the insanity that is his class, but Psych is inexcusable. I accept this.

How screwed am I?