I failed one dual enrollment class [D grade, will repeat], can I still get into competitive universities?

cy7878
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:08:23 +0000

thumper1:

I guess I’ll ask the elephant in the room question. Why were you taking a core English course DE during the summer anyway.

For some classes, summer is great time to take it. Freshman composition and Logical Reasoning are actually “easier” in the summer, because of a more constant pace. Whereas regular semester is 15 weeks, kids end up procrastinate and fall behind.

My son did both of his CC Eng classes over summer and did fine.
M daughter is doing one now and she is doing fine too.

Advice to OP with the D is:

Do take Eng 101 again and get an A.
Do take as many CC classes as he can fit to demonstrate the one D is a fluke and rest of his “college” classes are truly representative of his true abilities.

Example, if you take only one class and get a D without anymore classes – you just showed you are not college ready. Whereas you get one D early on and that is followed by 15 (or whatever you can handle) more As, then not only did you bounce back, you are more than ready. And all those new grades will also help dilute out the D.

My fundamental issue with any HS students who don’t pass a CC class is there is really no reason for that. It’s not HS where you may be stuck with the class because there is no alternative (even this is not true), or you need it to graduate. In CC, if you can’t do the work, since it’s optional, you can always drop. If it’s late, even a withdraw (W), it is still better than a D or F. So unless you just forgot, there are ample time to take action. Getting a D or F usually just tells me, a student didn’t plan this right and that’s unfortunate because like everyone here says, that college grade sticks forever.