Failed Summer Dual Enrollment Class

AustenNut
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 15:17:55 +0000

Geometry classes sound like high school level. Summer pacing of a high school class is different than summer pacing of a college class. And the pacing of a college summer class is different than the pacing of a semester-long college class. I think that is the point that @thumper1 is making.

Be that as it may, I agree with the others. There’s very little that can be done about the course you failed. All you can do is learn from it.

When did you realize you were having difficulty in the class? Did you attend office hours or reach out to the professor for clarification on the issues you were having? Did you seek out any of the tutoring resources available from the campus (which, for a higher-level programming class, may not have been available…depends on the campus)? The steps you mention taking seemed more about minimizing the impact of the grade (i.e. switching to pass/fail and then trying to withdraw) rather than attempts to learn material that was very challenging.

Everybody, no matter how smart they are, will get to a point where they need to learn actual study skills and can’t just coast by on their natural gifts. Some people reach it earlier than others, and if yours came in an advanced CS course after your sophomore year, I suspect that you’ve experienced little academic difficulty up to this point. The fact that you’re still in high school means that you now have the opportunity to learn a lot of the study skills that are needed in life in an environment where there will be lots more support for it. (Living with your family who can help provide supports and attending a high school which is much more accustomed to providing higher level of support than most colleges.)

As others have said, this is not the end of the world. Learn from it and your future will continue to look bright.