Will one c from freshman year hurt?

rn12345
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:29:03 +0000

Currently, I am a high school freshman in my second semester of the school year. Transitioning into high school wasn’t easy, especially considering the fact that this year, due to COVID, was all online. I tried my best even with the circumstances and I did fairly well considering the fact that I got all A’s in every class… except for one. This subject happens to be art. Art was a mandatory subject we had to take in our school so it wasn’t an elective of mine. Our teacher is extremely harsh when it comes to grading artwork and gave vague instructions on how to make artwork. Art is supposed to be one of those subjects where you let your creativity run around and make artwork from them but instead, our teacher always had high set standards on how the artwork was supposed to look like. I struggled a lot trying to figure out how to crack the subject of art which was the reason why I got a 78 for my semester grade in art. Currently, I am excelling in the subject of art and have an A grade as well but I’m really scared of the effect that one C will have on my high school transcript. I want to be able to go to T20 colleges but I feel as if this one C will ruin all of my chances of getting into renowned universities such as Stanford or brown or Colombia and etc. I also have considered looking into retaking the course over the summer to bring up my GPA into hopefully a 4.0 (unweighted) again but I’m not sure just yet. What should I do? even if I didn’t retake the class, would it affect the college’s decision to if they should admit me or not? Is there any way I can replace that bad grade for a better one so it doesn’t show up in my transcript?