C+ in an art class

[Verbrandhathe]

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My major is chemical engineering, and like other engineering majors I was forced to take this "fundamentals of engineering" class (more like fundamentals of drawing, 75% of the grade was drawing). I avoided art all my life, I sucked at the class and the only thing that was good was my group (and I got almost 100% in the teamwork/lab portion, but that constituted only 25% of the grade). This upcoming quarter I have the next class of this series and I know I am going to relive this (or I might relive a worse version, if my group is bad I am going to cry). Will medical schools care too much about these classes? I will have good grades in math and science. Also all my GEC's required for graduation are thrown into my senior year so I am probably going to be in classes with a lot of freshman(psyc 101 ftw), will that look bad?

 

[rctriplefresh5]

My major is chemical engineering, and like other engineering majors I was forced to take this "fundamentals of engineering" class (more like fundamentals of drawing, 75% of the grade was drawing). I avoided art all my life, I sucked at the class and the only thing that was good was my group (and I got almost 100% in the teamwork/lab portion, but that constituted only 25% of the grade). This upcoming quarter I have the next class of this series and I know I am going to relive this (or I might relive a worse version, if my group is bad I am going to cry). Will medical schools care too much about these classes? I will have good grades in math and science. Also all my GEC's required for graduation are thrown into my senior year so I am probably going to be in classes with a lot of freshman(psyc 101 ftw), will that look bad?

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[CapnCrunch]

Unfortunately your cGPA will hurt because of it, but your sciGPA should be safe (the one that matters more, not significantly more, but def more). I'd try and see if you could get help in the matter. I'm sure not all engineering students are artists. How is everyone else doing/dealing with it? Honestly shouldn't be too bad.

I wouldn't say taking gen eds your senior year should make too much of an impact. Heck, getting the difficult stuff out of the way and doing well in it before the easy classes should show that you were able to handle an extensive courseload as soon as you entered college.

Good luck and Happy Holidays!

 

[Verbrandhathe]

Unfortunately your cGPA will hurt because of it, but your sciGPA should be safe (the one that matters more, not significantly more, but def more). I'd try and see if you could get help in the matter. I'm sure not all engineering students are artists. How is everyone else doing/dealing with it? Honestly shouldn't be too bad.

I wouldn't say taking gen eds your senior year should make too much of an impact. Heck, getting the difficult stuff out of the way and doing well in it before the easy classes should show that you were able to handle an extensive courseload as soon as you entered college.

Good luck and Happy Holidays!

Out of the 100 or so students(in my class alone), about 4 of us struggle. My computer (the one IN CLASS) would randomly shut down, crash, program would crash, etc. and I would lose points on the assignment(and given the fact I screwed up every assignment). The teacher decided not to put in about 5 of my scores and just give me 0's(out of 20) on all them. I could've argued, then I thought...I really don't care about this class.

 

[rama kandra]

You will likely have a poor grade on the transcript but every secondary application has a spot where you may elaborate about a issue of your choice. I suggest for the academics, you just plainly tell them the technical failures, the coursework being out of your reach (you can say this, and not be afraid, it literally was not your strength) but you did not have the environment to provide a better performance.

I just feel if your grades are fine elsewhere, this is nothing significant. You can just explain it in words or completely ignore it.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

It won't look great, but it won't kill you. If you had gotten a C+ in an actual art class like the title suggest, anyone looking at your transcript would probably just laugh. But since it was an engineering course, it won't look as good.