I have grown up in over five countries and have moved around for most of my life. For the last two years of high school I have been in the US where I am a citizen but I am more interested in Canadian colleges. My dream school is Ubc but I’m worried about my math grade I have mostly A’s and B’s in all AP’s and AICE’s (Cambridge curriculum) but math which is my only regular class I have a d in I still have time to get it up and I can retake the class before I apply to college but do you think that if I end with a c it could ruin my chances of getting into ubc? My GPA is UW: 3.65 W 4.6 I’ve taken four AICE’s and Ap’s and have good extracurricular my sat is 1260 and act 27
I yard no idea of admissions to UBC, but what a wonderful choice. Totally love bc.
Your question has two points. What grade is required by the university and maybe that information is available through your counselor or on the school website.
You should raise your current grade that will require dedication, effort and time. So, the most direct path would be pushing yourself hard to earn a better grade now. If that won’t work, is it possible to retake the class and substitute a higher grade? Your counselor may have a good sense of your options and any procedures.
The second part of your question is mastering the content. For example we can learn driving rules very quickly, but have minimal retention after leaving the testing room. That works for me.
However, in an academic class, it is important to learn content as you progress so that you are prepared to make sense of later content. If you are not secure in early content, then later content will be harder to learn and earn a better grade.
When you are learning new information, actively teach yourself by working on problems by talking yourself through calculations and stopping and going back to information when solution eludes you. I found talking aloud in my head really helped me learn and remember. Here is the bottom line: if you don’t learn content of a class even though you didn’t really master content then you paid too high a price for the grade.