<p>If the F shows up on your transcript IMO it will hurt if not end any realistic hope of getting into an elite school. And I can’t imagine your HS would let you take AP calculus without passing the prerequisite course. I suggest you talk to your guidance counselor and get his/her assessment of the damage to your college applications as well as a suggestion for how to best move forward.</p>
<p>And I agree with @MrMom62 that you need to take responsibility for your failure. An F in a class is not something that happens overnight – if you struggle with math (and given your downard trend in grades in that subject it seems to be the case) then you needed to do something before it got to a point where you had even a remote chance of failing the class – be it seeing the teacher after class, asking a fellow student to work with you, hiring a tutor, looking at online sources, asking for additional problem/solution sets (even if you don’t get extra credit) etc. or, if need be, dropping down to a lower level of math mid-year. Extracurricular activities must take a back seat to passing a class. You will likely come across bad teachers even in college and you will have bad bosses at work – you can’t throw up your hands and blame them, but you have to work through the situation. </p>
<p>Sorry if your are not getting the responses you wanted on this forum… </p>