Given the choice to be graded by a college professor, but it would hurt my grade?

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<p>I‘m taking a Native Language Spanish class in which we are covering much of the AP Span Lit curriculum and also going much more in depth. There‘s a big focus on composition in the class, and the grading is hard enough for a Spanish class as is (our teacher is a text editor) but she isn‘t AS strict as she could be with writing, as she grades many papers and doesn‘t focus a TON of attention to each essay (she does spend around 50 mins on each one). Recently she gave one of my essays to one of her colleagues, a professor in the University of Michigan, to kind of test the waters and see what happens. I got it back completely destroyed by corrections, even though it was one of my better essays and I‘m amongst the better writers of the class. </p>

<p>My teacher is giving me the option to keep working with the university professor, she will send my essays to her, and ill get them back graded. I‘ll correct them and everything (not something we do normally) and send them back to the professor. The objective is to completely revamp and catapult my writing abilities to the point where I could publish the essays I write. The bad part is that my grade will be much lower than if I were just being graded by my highschool teacher, it would probably drop from a 87 or 93 to a 75 or 80, greatly hurting my GPA. I dont want to make my decision ENTIRELY based on GPA, as this IS a fantastic opportunity, but i fear that my C+ will be looked down upon by colleges even though I‘m submitting myself to a more stringent grading method. Any advise?</p>

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<p>Why not have it both ways? Turn in two copies, one for your teacher to grade and one for the professor. The professor can critique your work much as an outside tutor would, but you get the grade your teacher assigns. I have my doubts about what your school’s principal would say about your teacher having someone else do her work.</p>

<p>While I think it is wonderful for you to be challenged and move to the next level, it should be to benefit you not at your expense.</p>

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<p>bump for second opinion</p>