I am currently in my first year at U of T and my grades are slipping greatly, especially in chemistry. If I end up just passing the chem course but I do not need to take it any other years for my major(just first year) or acceptance into a subject post will grade schools look at that bad mark an reject me? I want to get a masters in ecology and evolutionary biology and environmental science. I am thinking of dropping it and taking it in summer school but I do not need to maintain a certain average to get into my major programs so is there any point? Should I just tough it out and end up with a passing grade or is it better to drop it now and get a better grade in summer school?<\/p>\n
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Hey hey!<\/p>\n
For the most part, grad schools look at your final two years, so no, I don’t think they’ll see your CHM 138, balk, and reject you over that. This course’s main meaningful influence would be how it affects your CGPA. So if you really think you’re going to do really poorly and the option is available, you can definitely drop it now and retake it next term or in the summer anew.<\/p>\n
It’s all up to you. Do you think you can salvage the course at this point?<\/p>\n
Cheers!<\/p>\n
aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am currently in my first year at U of T and my grades are slipping greatly, especially in chemistry. If I end up just passing the chem course but I do not need to take it any other years for my major(just first year) or acceptance into a subject post will grade schools look at that bad mark an reject me? I want to get a masters in ecology and evolutionary biology and environmental science. I am thinking of dropping it and taking it in summer school but I do not need to maintain a certain average to get into my major programs so is there any point? Should I just tough it out and end up with a passing grade or is it better to drop it now and get a better grade in summer school? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey hey! For the most part, grad schools look at your final two years, so no, I don’t think they’ll see your CHM 138, balk, and reject you over that. This course’s main meaningful influence would be how it affects your CGPA. So if you really think you’re going to do really poorly and the option is available, you can definitely drop it now and retake it next term or in the summer anew. It’s all up to you. Do you think you can salvage the course at this point? Cheers! aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midterms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}