Downward Trend Junior Year: I Joined the IB Program and it is tanking my grades

bgrlqn
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:10 +0000

Here is the situation, Freshman and Sophmore year were great I made mostly A’s with B’s my cumulative GPA at the end of sophmore year was 3.81. Junior year I decided to partake in the IB program without having taken pre-ib classes freshman and sophmore year. This gave me as well as my friends a disadvantage because we were immersed into the IB program without enough preparation. As a result my semester grades are going to be terrible
B
B
B
A
A
C
D- 69- teacher won’t round

I mean I just can’t have a D on my transcript right? I mean I put myself at a great disadvantage with having a D on my transcript. The D is in my “IB” precalculus class. My school decided that there should be three precalculus classes: on level, honors precalculus, and IB precalculus.Let’s just say the IB precalculus is ridiculously hard and my honors precalculus friends are breezing through. Regardless, I might be stuck with a possible D on my transcript. So should I just switch out of the IB program now (second semester of junior year), or finish this year and take all ap classes senior year? Or should I stick with the program. How do you think my current downward trends would look to top schools, I wanted to apply to UVA, Brown, Harvard, Yale, Berkley, but now with my terrible grades junior year, looks like I will be getting a lot of rejection letters. So help me out…what do you think?