How are they going to interpret a "V-grade"?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi everyone.</p>

<p>I’m really glad to have put the whole application process behind me, it was an immense amount of work… As many of you know, however, work is never actually over, sadly.</p>

<p>So even now I have certain concerns. My transcript, from my previous school, says that I took a business administration class in first semester of 11th grade, and received a “V-grade” in it, which basically means that I didn’t meet the attendance requirements to pass. I never had the remotest intention of taking a business administration class, and had 6 classes for that semester, instead of the 5 that is the regular courseload. I was (and am) in the IB, so the 6 classes were my IB classes, and there’s no IB class in business administration.</p>

<p>I am also more or less certain that I was never formally enrolled in the class even if by accident, since my “attendance record” does not list me as having that class (and thus not having absences in it), and if I had it, someone would probably follow up with me to explain the absences/confirm or disconfirm my attendance. Furthermore, it would conflict half the time with my TOK lessons.</p>

<p>All the apps have been sent, and I don’t know what to do. My other stats are great: SAT superscore 2310; predicted 45 (or close) on the IB Diploma; class rank #1 (although for that they took into consideration only the grades in 11th and 12th grades, and my grades in 9th and 10th grqades aren’t as great, but not horrible); multiple subject tests, with high scores; good EC’s; great recs (I think); great essays (though I fear they might be too impersonal)… And I’m applying to top schools, so top in fact that I’m a bit embarrassed to post them up here haha :D</p>

<p>So what should I do now? Send each school separately a letter explaining what happened? That seems a bit silly, and they might not believe me, and they might not even read them or take them into consideration… in my experience, if you send and e-mail to a college, they reply a month later at the earliest, IF EVER, and the whole prospect does not create any confidence or trust in me at all. It seems so haphazard… I don’t know.</p>

<p>Any advice?</p>

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<p>Talk to your guidance counselor, the one who wrote your recommendation. Stat. Your ideas seem good to me, but your counselor will know better. (Also, a student-x-had-a-transcript-mistake-and-never-even-took-the-class might sound a lot better if it comes from a school official, not from you.) Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks :)</p>

<p>I talked to my counselor about it, and this is what she said:
She hasn’t actually sent any of my grades from previous schools yet, and will do this in the midyear report, because she accidentally didn’t send them in the counselor’s report. Should I be worried about this, about her not sending all of my grades to the colleges on time? I’m afraid that if the grades from 9-10 grade come late, with the midyear report, they’re not gonna have time to make their decision properly.</p>

<p>She also said that she doesn’t actually have anywhere on the form to explain my situation, and, worse yet, that even if I sent an email, no one would see it or consider it. Which is kind of what I thought.</p>

<p>She then said she doesn’t intend to send the grades from the semester when I got a V grade at all, because that was the first semester of 11th grade, and was done in the southern hemisphere, so that immediately after it, when I returned to the northern hemisphere, I redid the first semester of 11th grade. Is this proper, however? I somehow think that colleges don’t care about that, and that they want all grades in the past 4 years, period. Otherwise they’ll be asking themselves what I did in spring of 2009.</p>

<p>Your thoughts? Consolations?</p>

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<p>Yes, I know people that we’re denied admission because their counselors forgot to send in their grade reports on time. colleges, especially nowadays, are very stern about their on-time policy</p>