Should I be worried?

Cvjn
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:25:04 +0000

This is going to be slightly long…

So, basically I’m taking some pretty tough classes this year. In my opinion, I wasn’t too strong of an applicant, but since I was admitted early, I guess UMich didn’t think that. I had a 4.0 my first semester, and all was well.

Onto this semester…

We just got our midterm grades back. I have 3 A’s, 1 A- (can bring up to an A) and a B-…

The B-, is in Calculus II. The teacher included a … class grade, which basically was the breakup of the class grades.

From the start of Calc 2, 2/3 of the kids dropped the class.
There are 28 people left in there.

14 of them are failing, (D-/F)
14 of us have C- or above.

The highest grade in the class is an A-, followed by a B (lol no B+), 2 B-'s, then rest C’s.

Should I be worried that my admissions might be revoked for this grade if it appeared on my final transcript? The lowest I could see myself get is a C, which is very possible at the moment. What brought about this worry was the last quiz that we just took. I was talking to the teachers, and as I watched some kids turn in the quizzes, I swear there was easily at least 10 different answers, and I only saw about 20 kids turn in quizzes before I left.

I’m confident in my math skills, but not so confident that I don’t worry. I’m going to spend the entire spring break (yay spring break now) studying for Calculus 2 test and basically devote all of my time to bring up the A-, and the B-.

I know, I’ll try and keep my grades up, but Calculus 2 is just killing me. Originally I was taking the class to show that I could take very hard classes (5 of them) and succeed at it, but this is… really smacking my GPA.

Any advice if I get a lower grade (B - C range)? Should I mention that even though this is a bad grade, it is better than most of my peers (is that even a justified excuse?)

My lowest possible total GPA is a 3.66 which is pretty low IMO, while the highest is 3.88