Oh and I just got notification after being nominated for the full ride to my safety that I’m one of the finalists!!! So so happy to hear this! I might actually go if I get the scholarship paying nothing to go to college is amazing!!!
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Hi everyone! I now have a similar problem: I learned that since I have 3 classes to graduate with my associates of arts in the spring (english composition 2, environmental literature, and a wellness class) I can take these classes in the spring semester and graduate with my AA! But, I also have the option of taking classes at the UMN that i’m really interested in (more public health and poltical science classes), and am not sure what to do. Registration opens in 4 days for me! What should I do?
Having an AA in itself changes nothing… take classes of interest at UMN.
You’ll have to take Freshman composition or a freshman seminar in college anyway - and if you’re at a selective college it’ll be quite different from DE English Composition.
Congratulations on the scholarship !
But don’t make any decision till you know your results: sometimes, inexpensive with lots of benefits (like summer financial support to help you with housing during your internship…) is better than “free”. Sometimes not. You just need to know the terms.
She likely won’t have to retake English comp if she attends her in state public schools. Selective private schools will most likely require a retake or a higher level courses to meet writing requirements of the core curriculum.
Also an AA is a major advantage in some states like VA. With one you can have a guaranteed transfer admission to many schools in the state if you meet a certain gpa requirement. Eligible schools include UVA, William and Mary and Virginia Tech among others. However, most Virginia schools only offer a few DE courses in high school, so the bulk of the AA needs to be completed after high school graduation.
To provide context for my statement to take classes of interest rather than CC classes toward an AA, I believe OP is in MN, hence the opportunity to take classes of interest at UMN, and is waiting for a post-interview decision from Yale.
If OP ends up going to UMN they have a lot of credits there already so an AA is not going to change anything by itself. If they go to Hamline, same thing. But I really hope OP gets into Yale or some place similar, which would open incredible doors while being nearly free with extra support.
Hi, everyone. So my semester ends this week and my final grade for literature is almost an A, but right now it’s looking like I am ending with a B. I am devastated, I worked so hard and my teacher was extremely strict, even though I had extenuating circumstances and she said she would alter a zeros on assignments that i shouldn’t have gotten, she didn’t and now I am stuck with a B. I’m crushed. I haven’t gotten a B in 1 year and now im scared that i wont get into a good school with a B in one of my 4 college level classes. What should I do?
I am freaking out I don’t think a B is bad I just got the B due to an error that was not my own…I am so stressed out and this is really not helping.
See if there’s anything you can do and/or whether she wants to see your medical certificates or whatever you have for your extenuating circumstances; let her know you’ll do whatever it takes because there’s a lot at stake for you as a fgli HS student who’s depending on full scholarships to go to college next year.
Remind her she’d said she’d remove the 0 and the reason she provided; if you remember the date, give it, if you have an email with the offer, forward it. Be polite about it - “it seems my current grade may be linked to a grade you had stated (11/08, office hours) you would remove since -state the reason she agve-. I’m wondering whether you might have forgotten that in all the end-of-semester rush or changed your mind.” Etc, Respectfully, BumbleBee2…
BTW What was the problem? You turned things in late, lacked depth, failed a quiz, didn’t understand something but didn’t ask for clarification…?
(Does she know you’re 17 and are taking college classes to challenge yourself in ways your HS wouldn’t ? Because if for instance she’s used to 19-20 year olds’writing she may not find you as mature… This happens.)
Yeah, for one assignment I followed all of the steps but nowhere in the rubric did it say to show my work so she got mad and took off 12 points on a 50. then she said that i could resubmit and i saw her message an hour later and submitted, she didn’t even accept it.
I told her about the zeros actually earlier and she said that even with me showing documentation of the circumstances, she wouldn’t change my grade or remove the zeros.
The other mistakes were due to her error.
She doesn’t want to negotiate though, I mentioned all of this to her and she said she would round my grade instead after the last few mini quizzes, but I did well on 4 of them and got a few points off of the other. This ruined my grade and she couldn’t round it so now im at a B.
She knows there are younger students in her class but she doesn’t know my age…I just feel horrible because this could have ruined my shot at college, I feel embarrassed having to talk to her about this in order to get the grade up.
Hiw far off are you? Like, are we talking 89.4 or 86?
it was close to an 89, my teacher said she would round an 89.
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But what IS it for real though?
Sounds like youve done everything you could already though, so I’d leave it be.
Sometimes professors, like all human beings, aren’t nice, or maybe you hit her pet peeves several times (it can happen). Hopefully it’ll be highly uncommon now on.
I don’t think 3As and 1B in your college courses is going to be the end of the world, that’s still a 3 75 college GPA, and if you have other college grades, I bet your GPA is in the 3.75-3.8 range, which is excellent. The problem begins if you already have several Bs and this semester was supposed to pull that up, so that you end up with a sub 3.5 college GPA. Is that the case?
When do you hear from your colleges?
Have they requested your semester grades?
My gpa is a 3.9 right now. All of my B’s in high school were from freshman and sophomore year (majority from freshman year). My college gpa is a 3.7 and it will lower my 3.9 to a 3.88 if I get that B, but if I get an A it will be a 3.92. My college gpa was a 4.0 so not getting a B means a lot to me.
I hear back from yale this week, and hear back from my 2 ea schools late january. the rest I hear back late march/april.
It was really an 89.8.
Keep your fingers crossed for now, you never know what will appear as your final grade. Just wait.
And if you still have a paper to turn in or an exam, try your best so that you do “earn” that A.
But…
3.88 and 3.92 will be considered the same.
(Considering your panic I really thought things were worse 
).
So, relax, you’ll be fine.
for Yale. Do let us know !
Hahah yeah, my bad for panicking, its just I have never seen someone with so many b grades get into top schools like this so potentially getting a B really made me panic.
Bumble, you are going to go to college, you are going to stretch yourself intellectually and socially and artistically/athletically if you so choose.
Focus on finishing strong and stop worrying about what you cannot control. There are kids with perfect GPA’s who have never gotten less than an A who get rejected, and kids with “not perfect” GPA’s who get accepted. And your anxiety isn’t helping you right now.
“Not getting a B” isn’t a healthy way to approach your education-- doing as well as you can and enjoying what you are learning might pay off for you more in the long run.
Hugs.
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Please do everything you can to relax. If Yale is your first choice and they make a decision this week, it’s not part of their decision. I also recall that you have gotten pretty close to a full ride from a really good school, right? You’ve done all you can. Your application is clearly really good (the full ride) so you should be proud of yourself. I know all that is easier said than done, and that this is a really stressful time. But a 3.89 and a 3.92 are stellar GPAs. The Ivies are a complete crap shoot for everybody. So try to have a great holiday season.
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You should go about your business and not worry about what you can’t control.
If your list is balanced, you have no concerns.
If you deserve a B, then accept it and grow from it.
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^ I think 89.8 doesn’t mean OP deserves a B. But I’m not the professor. And she may be saying it now before final grades are computed then decide otherwise if OP has really done everything in their power. But maybe not.
Sometimes there’s just nothing you can do, even if it’s unfair, a lesson FGLI students have had to learn early and often, unlike most middle class kids who’ve been taught to advocate for themselves, etc, so that it takes great strength to navigate college, learn how to advocate for yourself, know when to question&ask and when you really shouldn’t, etc, which is why colleges now try to have offices helping FGLI students so that their first response isn’t “it’s unfair but what can I do?”
I do think OPs concern that 3.88 v.3.92 makes a difference is wholly unwarranted. The pride in getting straight As is normal, as anyone should be for enrolling in college classes as a HS student and getting As. But not getting straight As in vollege is normal.
What we must keep in mind is that the impact could be disproprotionate, because OP needs a full ride which depends on academic achievement - so “take the B and keep going” v. “Take the B and say goodbye to the 4 year college you hoped to attend”. Fortunately it won’t be, because OP has solid grades throughout 11th and 12th including the 3 As in college classes.
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