Chances of being admitted

WilliamScore
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:45:46 +0000

I have a question. I should have mentioned above I have a few C’s on my transcript, but in my haste to write a post, I neglected to say so. Some of them were my fault. Sometimes I felt that the professor was being unreasonable.

For instance, there was a professor who gave 20% of the grade being “participation and effort”. This was a lecture class, not a lab. I had a 95% average without this grade (on the written coursework), and attended every class but one because I had to attend a funeral. The professor gave me a 3/20 on the so-called “participation and effort” on the account that since I did well, I obviously found the material easy, and if it was easy, I must have slacked off and taken the class for granted. He also tried to accuse me of cheating on the final because I did “too well” on it compared to others. The average in the class was a 64 (with the arbitrary grade added), I had an overall grade of 79. Still got a C because the professor claimed that the curve was only applied to those who didn’t do as well on the exams.

Should I go about explaining this? If so, how should I do it?