Low GPA after First Semester

ineedamoment
Tue, 02 May 2017 16:31:46 +0000

So all throughout high school, I was a straight-A student, and studying/academics had never been an issue for me. Currently I go to UNC-CH and my GPA was scary after first semester (2.5), with the whole adjusting to college life and being out-of-state thing…
Anyway, the class that brought me down was Calculus I, which I had taken at a Governor’s School during high school and hoped to receive college credit for, but didn’t (they gave me credit for a lower-level math but not calculus). Basically the calculus professor here really messed everyone up with her tests, considering my free response questions were near-perfect and the multiple choice portion was pretty ugly. I talked to my academic advisor after first semester about how my calculus did not get transferred here, and upon comparing the course syllabi, I realized I could have pushed it and gotten credit for it - however, according to her, it is too late to do anything about it. And here I am second semester, doing SO much better with my grades but my first semester GPA is not helping my overall GPA. I don’t know what to do other than keep worrying about it especially since I’m premed and I need calculus for my major…