<p>To the original poster, our DD did exactly that. She was a NMSF at this time last year, became a NMF, and is now at Bama on the NMF scholarship and loving it. She got a C+ in Pre-Calc as a final grade as a junior. Thankfully her transcript only showed final grades. We worried about the one C+ and her chances to go from NMSF to NMF. So she dealt with the issue directly in her NMF essay – about her lessons learned on overcoming this adversity with the course, the final grade, the teacher, the administration not initially grasping the problems with this teacher, and finding her own way on dealing with the issue. Long story short … she had a brand new teacher in Pre-Calc who was brilliant but had absolutely no people or teaching skills. At one point, when the brand new teacher was out for the day and the sub was no help, she started a mini-revolt and found a math teacher in the teacher’s lounge who agreed to come in and actually teach them the material for at least one day. The brand new teacher then ended up “leaving” the school in the middle of 3rd quarter (and this is at one of the top high schools in the U.S. – a math/science magnet school in Northern VA). Her grades for 3rd and 4th quarters improved but she still got a C+. We were proud of her on her NMF essay and how she dealt with the C+ issue. In a year (2013) where one C grade seemed to nix many NMSFs from becoming a NMF, she made it to NMF and Scholar. Good luck!</p>