<p>Heres the story. I have about a 3.8 unweighted gpa so far this year. I’m getting mid-high A’s in all of my classes except trigonometry(C+,B-). If I get a high score on the ACT math section, will this be overlooked? How much would this hurt me in admissions if I am applying for a non-math major? Thank You.</p>
<p>If your overall GPA remains high, it won’t be a cause for concern. Obviously, a C won’t look great, but I’m fairly sure that no college will put too much stock into one bad grade.</p>
<p>make aime, you should be good.</p>
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<p>I don’t think so. (Mostly because your competition will have done well on the ACT math section in addition to getting high grades in math classes. Doing well in a high school math class is a somewhat different skill than doing well on a standardized test. Supposedly there are “smart but lazy” people who get bad grades but do really well on standardized tests, and supposedly they don’t fare too well in college admissions.)</p>
<p>Cs aren’t good. I don’t think it will be a dealbreaker in itself, but when you’re applying to top schools you need all the help you can get. </p>
<p>If you’re applying as a non math major- they supposedly don’t look at your math/science that much. Also, you can downplay something like math in your essay.</p>
<p>But will you score highly on the ACT? ACT does test trigonometry, you know.</p>
<p>@foolish Yes. I have practiced the math portion of the ACT and did decently without having learned trigonometry yet. I will be fine.</p>
<p>What’s your potential major - obviously a Physics/Engineering/CS major-applicant will have a harder time getting around a C in math or downplaying the detriment than an Art/Theatre/English/Sociology major. </p>
<p>@preamble1776 Something from the communications/journalism or social sciences fields.</p>
<p>@MajesticWarrior - Then the C probably won’t effect you at all - sure, it isn’t great, but at the end of the day, when admissions officers are reviewing the application of a journalism major, they probably will not harp on the fact that you didn’t “hit it out of the park” so to speak when it came to memorizing common trig values or calculating the frequency of a sinusoid graph. Don’t sweat it. 
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