<p>My final grades came in today.</p>
<p>AP Studio Art: A+
AP Art History: B
AP English 4: A-
Photography II: A
AP Calculus AB: B
AP Physics Mechanics: D-</p>
<p>I was accepted to Tisch as a Photography & Imaging major. I had a C in Physics at first semester this year, and the mental block between science and me just thickened to an extreme during second semester. Would the fact that I’m an art major (and that my acceptance was at least 50% portfolio anyway) and that my other grades were As and Bs help me keep my spot in the class? Has anyone heard any stories from the past of people in similar circumstances?</p>
<p>i really doubt it’ll be rescinded</p>
<p>wat about A,A,A,B,C,C,C?</p>
<p>OK If you just don’t get science, why did you take AP Phys in the first place?</p>
<p>This is what I’d like to know.</p>
<p>Misguidance from a guidance counselor.</p>
<p>A. I was advised to take the hardest course load because based on my academic performance during the first three years, we thought I could handle it (despite the hate-hate relationship between science and me). B. He told me I needed six semesters of laboratory science to apply to the UCs, so I needed a science class anyway. C. His lack of communication skills leads him to thinking everyone at my college prep school is a scholar-athlete hoping to head to the IVYs (when there’s a good few of us looking to get into a fine art school). D. He just sucks (see all of the above).</p>
<p>Plus, I thought it’d be a good challenge for me. I’m definitely intrigued by physics and could see that I might’ve had potential to understand the concepts well and pass the class… had I had a teacher whose teaching style worked with my learning style and if I had more time to study what he had tried to teach me but failed. He always gave cursory lessons on the concepts (during which most of us were half awake because it was a zero period) with very little training in the actual application. So I learned a lot of the basic concepts and logic behind them, but throw numbers and equations at me–which is really what physics is at an academic assessment level, much to my dismay (but that’s a whole conversation later about the state of education)–and I’m screwed. He rarely covered the application of the concepts to solving problems (not until the very end at least, at which point I was already lost beyond saving).</p>
<p>This sounds precisely like my situation with AP Statistics.</p>
<p>Down to the teacher and the zero period thing.</p>
<p>You got 3As, 2Bs, and 1D. No biggie; I doubt NYU will decline your acceptence.</p>
<p>They won’t rescind the acceptance. If anything they’ll put you on academic probation but I seriously doubt that they would.</p>
<p>youll be fine. especially if youre in tisch where it was only half academics to begin with, and you had a c first semester anyway.</p>