Please help...senior grades Forum

[poursoulager]

I know everyone is in the midst of making really big life decisions with seat deposits and WLs so I apologize if this looks relatively trivial.

Senior, one more summer semester of research and classes. I just took my last final for this semester and I feel like I could just die. Past two semesters (Jan-April 2013 and September-December 2013) grades were all A-, A, and A+, this semester grades are again A- and A. I finally sustained an upward trend for a year and I feel like I messed everything up with this class. I have a couple of really low grades from a few years back and wanted to get as much distance as I could from them and here we go again.

I should have dropped it earlier but it is a graduation requirement/degree requirement, I tried to drop it for a non-punitive W but the registrar's office and the transfer office (deals with the transfer credit should I take the course to graduate again) said they could not guarantee anything...

I plan to take the September LSAT, apply in late October. How would admissions see this discrepancy for this semester's grades? GPA-wise, I'm currently looking at a 3.5-3.6, I was aiming to increase it this year and summer to a 3.6-3.7+. I am looking at CCN H, strictly GPA-wise, would this one bad bad grade so late in the game completely shut the door for H or can A's during the summer still give me a fighting chance? Does anyone have experience with a low grade so close to graduation?

Sorry to ramble, just feel like I am going to go through a million panic attacks about this.

[TLSanders]

I think you may be overreacting.

It's not clear to me just how bad this "bad grade" is going to be (it seems you're only guessing at that yourself, at this point), but one grade does not a trend make or break.

Whether or not you need to address this grade remains to be seen--come back when you know what it is. But, at this point, assume that life will proceed as previously anticipated and don't let it keep you awake at night.

[northwood]

if you have 117 other credits that are about a 3.6 level, then I don't think 3 credits at a 1.0 level wont hurt your overall GPA that much( but I'm not good at math)

sure, itll look a bit strange on your transcript, but I wouldn't give it that much thought.

[anyriotgirl]

if you have 117 other credits that are about a 3.6 level, then I don't think 3 credits at a 1.0 level wont hurt your overall GPA that much( but I'm not good at math)

sure, itll look a bit strange on your transcript, but I wouldn't give it that much thought.

i'm not convinced that any adcoms even looked at my transcript tbh

[phillywc]

It won't help with H, but I think you would still have a decent shot at CCN depending on what your GPA ends up being and your LSAT score.