starting to freak out about college acceptance

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I am getting ready to send in to my dream school this week and I am starting to freak out. I have maintained my calm the whole time. I have the grades, i have the recomendations, my essay is top knotch. But now I have this courses in progress report I need filled out. I am so worried. I am taking six courses this semester, three of which are very much ones where you have to mess up before you figure the prof out, then you do well. One of those two classes has work due every week, and I've already taken three tests. B on two, C on one, then I didn't do very well on two of the homeworks, and I missed one because I was out of town. I can make it up, but I haven't yet. The second one I just took a midterm in. That midterm was a first of two things: first online test, and the first test I have ever failed. I can't believe I failed it, but when you look at the questions its easy to see why. They were very tricky. However, other than four assignments, that midterm is all I've got. Hopefully I can persuade him to write down something nice, I do very well on my homework and I am always participating in class. The third I added a month into the semester, missing four weeks of homework without being able to make it up. Again, I always participate, and I have done some extra credit, so hopefully she will give me a good outlook as well.

I am so worried about what my marks will be in those classes, and I am so afraid that it will damage my chances of getting into this school.
 
You need to understand that a grade on a paper/test/etc really can mean anything. Professors give tests where they know every student will fail.
 
IF you are currently in the courses, you don't have a final grade...so the grade pt average you report won't include them, right? Not sure how things work for the school at which you are applying, but acceptance is usually made before the end of the term...so you may just be evaluated on your grades as they stand now, without this terms grades. Where are you interested in going?

My daughter has just been going through the same thing. She has submitted her grades, taken an entry exam and had both written and verbal interviews for pharmacy school, and now has to wait about a month and a half to see if she is accepted. She said her grades for this semester don't count, if she is accepted, she just has to pass with C's.

All you can do is complete the application process and hope for the best. Have a plan in case you aren't accepted.
 
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They want a progress report of sorts on top of my transcripts. I am a VERY good student, I always make Deans List, it's just too early in the semester to be asking for grades, and I'm afraid it's going to hurt my chances.
 
I am a junior and I will tell you what I have learned. I just moved to another state and am in a bigger school for my junior year. Fresh and Soph years I was a A student. 4.0 and in the top 6% out of a class of 400. Now after part of my junior year this is what I have learned. The first trimester, yes trimesters...Indiana is weird like that, I received two B's. I about died because I had a goal of getting all A's in high school, which was now over. I am actually glad that I got those two b's. Second trimester I got two more b's, but I learned so much. Grades are like the stickers they use to put on your papers in first grade. That is about all they mean. I just got a 60% on my last physics test, but that is because I gave up on the chapter. The first two b's in high school came from choir and honors English. The choir one I got and I was ticked, but the theory is what killed me. I slacked off in English so I deserved that too, but then again my teachers only B in college came from the same class. Yes, I got two b's, but I learned the most in those two classes. I guess my point is that it is not the grade you walk away with, it is how much knowledge you walk away with. I am thinking about taking Spanish 3 next year, but am afraid I will do really bad in it and it will mess my grades up. I think I have decided to take it because even if I walk away with a bad grade that really means nothing after high schoo, I will have that much know a little more Spanish for just being in the class and being around it. GRADES DO NOT MEAN NOTHING AFTER HIGH SCHOOL. YES, YOU SHOULD DO YOUR BEST, BUT WHO REALLY CARES WHEN YOU ARE 30 THAT YOU HAD A 4.0 IN HIGH SCHOOL AND MAYBE COLLEGE. EMPLOYERS HIGHER PEOPLE BASED ON EXPERIENCE NOT HOW WELL THEY PERFORMED TO GET THERE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET ACROSS? BASICALLY IT COMES DOWN TO PRIDE AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS IMPORTANT IN LIFE. PERSONALLY I HAVE COME TO A POINT WHERE I AM HAPPY WITH A'S OR B'S. OH AND GETTING BAD GRADES ON TEST IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. LAST TRIMESTER I STARTED OUT WITH A 50% IN ENGLISH. I ENDED UP GETTING AN B AND THE WORLD IS STILL SPILLING. SORRY THIS IS SO LONG, BUT THIS YEAR I AM STARTING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT IS NOT.
 
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I just read the one post and have one other thing to say. If you are going into anything in the medical field, than yes grades are imortant. I know Pharmacy is very competitive at Purdue. My brother started in Engineering there, switched to Pharmacy, and will graduate this year with a PHD in MCMP.
As far as grades go, you can only do your best. If you try your best 100% of the time, what else can you do?
 
I'm at a JC trying to get into one of the best colleges in the country, yes, grades matter right now.
 
I guess my question would be why are you applying so late? Maybe is not late but when I applied for CSU (which was my dream school, was the ONLY school I applied for) I applied in September (early) and got accepted on Oct fourth. I got good grades in high school (had a 3.3gpa) and scored well on ACT but I applied early too. I am now a senior (graduating a semester early -3.5yrs- in December).
I guess just hope for the best and do the best you can. If you don't get accepted re apply in fall.
What born2fish was saying is that up till College grades are important but after you get accepted as long as you don't fail out, grades don't matter from then on out UNLESS you want to go to grad school then you need a 3.0 in most cases. Anyway hope this helps and hope you get in! There is not much else you can do now except hope for the best and maybe talk to your teachers that you are concerned about and see what they say. Anyway hope this helps and good luck!
 
It's a small private school, applications aren't due until May. Good news! I got my in class progress report signed by all three profs I was worried about. i have a B in all three of the classes, not my best my any means, but pretty good. When I went to get it signed by my political science teacher he told me that he knew I didn't do very well on the midterm, and that he knew that I knew the material and was better than my grade, so he sort of excluded it from my grade thus far. He also gave another good student with a bad midterm grade and myself a fairly time consuming, but very rewarding, extra credit project to get us back on our feet. He's a good guy.

GPA is a 3.7. But the school I am applying to is literally one of the best in the country. So I am still nervous even with the grades. To the guy who thinks grades don't matter after high school, they do, to an extent. If you don't keep them up, you can still get expelled form college, or dropped from the major you are in (if it is impacted). What does matter is motivation and dedication, it is proven that motivation is the main thing that differentiates the people who succeed in life with those who don't. And if you aren't motivated to keep up your grades, and that leads to a lack of motivation at your job, well, you aren’t going to go very far.
 
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