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Originally Posted by HQWest
Ummm I would not bring it up in conversation.
One zero on one exam is not enough to put you grades as low as the minimum to go through recruitment unless you werent taking a full courseload or got Cs in other classes too? You might also still be recovering from mono? That can take a toll on your ability to participate in classwork too.
You might want to consider taking a semester to work on your grades?
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I'm going to throw out some numbers here. The OP mentioned strong HS grades/SATs, so it's possible that she tested out of some things.
So let's say you're a freshman taking 13 credits- three 3 credit classes and a 4 credit science with a lab, or calculus, or an intensive language class, or whatever. You tested out of things like freshman comp and your non-lab science so you had some room to take a lighter first semester, took an AP science class but didn't test well enough to get out of it but you still felt confident enough to take the college version right off the bat, things like that. You've got two As and a B in your three credit classes, but that lab is really kicking your butt.
With those first nine credits, two As and a B is a 3.66. Let's say now you've got a midterm or a final that's 20-30% of your grade in that lab class. If you've got a shaky B or C in that lab and that big test grade is put in as a zero, you're getting a D and that 3.66 is suddenly a 2.8. If you work hard and pull out a B, you've got a 3.5 and everything is fine. All Bs and a D and you've got a 2.38, all Bs and a C is a 2.69, etc etc. I didn't do spring formal so I don't know what the hard minimum would be from experience, but from reading here it seems like it would be in the 2.5-2.75 range with a 3.0+ recommended?
This is all totally hypothetical and I have no idea what the OP's deal is of course, but it's potentially plausible. Mariemilly, it would be a good idea for you to have strong and positive answers to all of HQWest's questions regardless of the details of your situation.
