How to get a grade waived from transcript

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<p>The transition from high school to my freshman year of undergrad at University of Vermont was not easy. I went from a tiny private school (graduating class of 21) to a large state school. Having classes of 100 students (compared to 10) was difficult enough. But during midterms, I developed a particularly awful case of mono. It got so bad that I spent a night in the hospital and then was sent home. I was too sick to go back to school for a week and a half, and missed several exams on top of a lot of homework and many classes. When I got back, I sought out advising but did not receive much helpful advice. I fell very far behind and was unable to catch up. I also had to deal with mono for the rest of the semester (nothing but time can ease the symptoms). At the end of the semester, I unfortunately had a C and a D on my transcript.</p>

<p>I am now about to enter into my second semester of my sophomore year after this winter break. I have always been a student who gets mostly As, with occasional Bs. Since freshman year first semester, I have not received any grade lower than a B, and many As. However, my grades from that semester are still dragging my overall GPA down.</p>

<p>Going to such a large school, it is sometimes difficult to know how to go about getting certain things done. My advisor is extremely unhelpful. I actually changed advisors this year because my last advisor was unhelpful, only to be placed with a less helpful one than before. He says there is no way I can get at least one of those grades waived from my transcript. However, I had sent my professors doctors notes and medical records proving how sick I was (so that my absences were excused). The school has my illness on record. And it makes me so upset to see the impact that those poor grades as a direct result of my illness have on my cumulative GPA. I have done well since, but am still struggling to raise my GPA above 3.3.</p>

<p>Does anyone have ANY advice about how to go about getting a grade waived from your transcript? There must be something a student can do, if the circumstances are appropriate. I do not care if I lose the credits.</p>

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<p>In many schools, you can retake a class that you got a D or F in, and if you get a higher grade when you repeat the course, the higher grade replaces the lower grade, and the GPA from the higher grade is factored into your transcript, not the lower one. A few schools out there also allow you to repeat C grades–check your school’s repeated courses policy.</p>