<p>I recieved an incomplete in my research class this quarter for personal reasons, I didn’t get to spend much time in the lab. I asked for a reconsideration and listed the things I did, but he did not agree. This Incomplete would become an No Pass within a few months.</p>
<p>Would this kill my chances of going to any graduate school program at all? Is there anything I can do other than go to another professor and get A in the research?</p>
<p>Your professor gave you an Incomplete instead of a flat-out No Pass. Is he willing to change that Incomplete to a passing grade if you put in more work?</p>
<p>I’ll try speaking to him but I really doubt he’ll let me redo it.</p>
<p>Would an exceptionally good performance at a new lab “make up” for this though?</p>
<p>The whole point of an Incomplete is to give you time to finish up whatever it is that needs to be done! Go talk to your professor and find out what is missing. Do that thing (or those things). Get the grade in the class.</p>
<p>Something like this happened to me when I was in college. In general biology, I had to take a research credit and chose to do it in the lab I already worked in. For a variety of reasons related to my being inexperienced and having no guidance, the individual responsible evaluating my progress gave me a low grade for the research credit. </p>
<p>If that had been the end of my research career in college, I imagine it would have kept me out of grad school. I found a different lab to work in and took this as a learning experience. My advice to you, find a different lab and do an interesting project and you won’t be hurt in grad admissions.</p>
<p>If you have an incomplete, there’s generally a period where you can finished required work before it turns into an F. At least, that’s how it was at BC.</p>
<p>Yeah I asked him, he flatout said: You will not be able to continue in my lab.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, I’ll just move on and get a new lab.</p>