<p>All my grades have been stellar this quater (I’ve tried so hard) except for one. In Personal Finance my teacher subtracted 10 pts from my grade for talking, leaving me with a C.</p>
<p>I have some form of an A or a B+ in all my other classes. If I explain do they think they’ll understand??</p>
<p>And how badly do you think this will affect my chances!?! I mean, its my elective and it shouldn’t matter as much if I failed English , or Math or something. Do schools have application deadlines so that I can send in my 2nd quarter grades as well (new and improved)?
Wahh, help!</p>
<p>When does your second quarter end? Application deadlines are usually in the early Jan to 2/1 range. Your second quarter might end before then, so you probably have the opportunity to bring that C up to a B. You might also ask the teacher if there is an opportunity to bring the grade up with extra work. He/she might agree to this because the low grade was not based on academics but inappropriate behavior. </p>
<p>If you are not able to provide 2nd quarter grades before the application deadlines, you can find out if they will accept another official transcript after the deadline. Get whatever is available in time for the deadline, or you may not be considered for the regular admissions cycle. You don’t want that to happen. If they will accept another official transcript, and you have brought up your grade, then all is well. If you cannot arrange to send an official transcript after the deadline, then mail your copy to Admissions after the deadline with a letter letting them know how interested you are in their school, and update them on your grades. </p>
<p>This may be a far-fetched thought, but is there a way a “C” could be turned into an advantage? something along the lines of a non-academic lesson learned, if you can mention it during the interview? especially if the rest of your grades are very good.</p>
<p>alpha-yes, very much so. The IMPROVEMENT from the C is what will interest the school. SubjectXXXX proved to be difficult for me but with the help of ZZZ and busting my YYY, I overcame blah blah blah and finished off the term with an A-, thus sowing the seeds for my Nobel Prize winning study of the Yadi, Yadi, Yadda…</p>
<p>SSAT -
Not trying to answer for Baseball mom, but I think since she doesn’t know all the specifics, she put the variables in instead, but she could have said (again, not knowing specifics, I made some up)
“Personal FInance proved to be difficult for me but by getting an additional book and meeting with the teacher several times and working extra hard, I overcame the bad start and finished up with an A-. It really taught me that with hard work and preserverance, I can accomplish almost anything I set my mind to”* Or something like that.</p>
<p>a C is not going to go over very well with these people.
i have one piece of advice for you which is to beg your teacher. say you’ll do anything (essay, after school stuff, begging on your knees, etc). if you REALLY REALLY want this, then you need to work for it!!! stop talking in classa nd get that grade up to at LEAST a b!!!</p>
<p>good luck and i really hope this all works out for you!!!</p>
<p>Ugh, NeLLyRaE. I hope you’re a student and not a parent. Do not beg for a grade, GMW. Do what you can to get the grade up. Learn from the experience. But don’t embarrass yourself and the teacher by begging. As D’yer Maker said (almost always good to listen to D.M.), one C will not ruin your chances of getting into the school that’s right for you.</p>
<p>yup, i’ma student. and i was kinda joking about the beg-thing, i guess sarcasm is hard to pick up on the internet!!! haha.</p>
<p>but my point was that she should talk to the teacher and see what she’s doing wrong (even if she already knows) and ask if there’s any extra credit opportunities. this way, not only will she bet points with the teacher for showing effort, but she might be able to squeeze out an extra credit assignement that will get her grade back where it should be.</p>
<p>I live in Beijing, China, and the school that I go to has a grading system of 1-5. I usually get 4’s in all classes, and I’ve heard that to have even the slimmest chance of getting into any school one must have rather high grades… However, my grading system is different so I don’t know if the schools I’m applying to would have must interest in my grades. Could someone tell me please? :D</p>
<p>Yes, an international student from China, is in an extremely competitive pool.</p>
<p>That’s the challenge. The schools are accustomed to looking at all sorts of grade scales. Some of them have their own peculiar grade scales. Don’t sweat the chance that there will be some misunderstanding there. Just work on getting the highest grades you can and give it your best effort. Try not to sweat the things you can’t control. For that matter, try not to sweat the things that are in your control. Just give your best effort at the things you do and you can have no regrets.</p>
<p>crickett2324,
As D’yer says, the competition for spots for International students, especially from Asia, is fierce. That said, there are a lot of boarding schools in the US and not all of them only take kids with perfect grades and scores. My school, for instance, would be happy with a Chinese student who has high but not perfect grades but demonstrates an aptitude or passion for the things that our school emphasizes. (Assuming your English skills are good - which they certainly appear to be.)
I am in China for the year (Shanghai) and would be happy to talk to you about possibilities. Feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>it’s probably most fierce for day students actually, because if there’s a community and they all live around an amzing school then you can bet every single one of them is going to apply, and spaces will be limited for them because these schools want a variety of people not just from the same town. But i dunno about international vs. americans. these schools really want a variety of people from different places, but they are also AMERICAN schools and want american kids, so i’m not really sure.</p>
That’s what I meant.</p>