Is one bad grade enough to keep me out?

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So far I have been doing well in my studies. I had all A's last semester and one B-. This semester all A's again, however German.. That is what I got the B- in last time. The best I can do going into the final is a C. The worst I can do is fail or a D. I think a D+ to about a C is what I will end up with. Is that enough to keep me out of dental school? All maths and sciences are A's. The only thing I can't seem to get an A in is German.

Anyone had experience with this? I don't want this one class to ruin everything I am working so hard for. Part of the problem was I missed about two weeks of school and attendance counts. While there is no excuse, I was in the hospital and had a doctors note. The teacher, who is a grad student, wouldn't could it, and still docked me the points.

 

[doc3232]

So far I have been doing well in my studies. I had all A's last semester and one B-. This semester all A's again, however German.. That is what I got the B- in last time. The best I can do going into the final is a C. The worst I can do is fail or a D. I think a D+ to about a C is what I will end up with. Is that enough to keep me out of dental school? All maths and sciences are A's. The only thing I can't seem to get an A in is German.

Anyone had experience with this? I don't want this one class to ruin everything I am working so hard for. Part of the problem was I missed about two weeks of school and attendance counts. While there is no excuse, I was in the hospital and had a doctors note. The teacher, who is a grad student, wouldn't could it, and still docked me the points.

Go to the dean and make a complaint.

 

[Dentgirl09]

If you were, in fact, sick-- i agree with doc. Make a complaint, bring the doctors note, and say that you deserve those points.

If anything, it will hopefully bring your grade to passing at the end. But, even if you do get a C, it won't keep you out of dental school, that is for sure. You seem to be doing well in everything else, so just keep it up and let this one go.

Just try to pass, so you don't have to retake. And if you can do anything about the grade then go ahead and talk to someone higher up. Since it's not a prerequisite either it won't hold too much weight.

I had a similar dilemma my freshman year and the dean turned down my request for whatever reason. I did not pass with a C- or higher and had to retake. I will be attending Temple in the fall. So don't lose hope-just keep the rest of yoru grades up adn stop stressing out!

Good luck!

 

[Vicviper]

Don't worry, people can very often have problems with language classes. ESPECAILLY since it wasn't a science class and you're doing well in your science classes, this won't effect you at all. Science GPA is more important that your overall GPA, and German sure won't go into your science GPA.

I got a D in Ochem (I later retook it), and a few C's here and there, but that didn't doom me. You're fine, don't stress.

You'll look back on this and laugh a few years down the road when you think about how worried you were about German keeping you out of dental school. 🙂

As far as you being sick, if you were legitimetly sick, you need to bring it up with the Dean, and if the Dean won't talk to you, go talk to the Dean of students or another higher up - because that's just wrong. Did he even offer you the chance to take an Incomplete? Ask about this, might be a good idea so you can retake it later without getting the bad grade on your record.

 

[PreDentDJ]

I cannot tell you how much I truly feel your pain on this one.

I had a 4.0 my first 3 semesters... then, German. It is truly an awful language. I lived in Germany for 2 years, so I thought I had the upper hand... WRONG.

Tangent:
There are 5 different ways to say "friend."
There are more exceptions to rules than instances of.
They have 3 different gender classifications that follow absolutely no logic whatsoever [in German, a machine (die Maschine) is considered feminine, but a girl (das Mädchen) is NOT considered feminine].
They capitalize all nouns (making it imposible to tell which ones are proper) and then they combine them to make words that are so long that you forgot what the first part of the word was about before you get to the end (an actual name of a club in Vienna - Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft).
Continuing with their completely illogical theme, they split up their verbs with parenthesis. Can you imagine such a foolish thing in English?!?!? That would be like me saying "We were outside play (because I had spent a lot of time studying and little time with my son and did not want to see him grow up not knowing how much he meant to his father) ing. AHHHHHHH!

All of this and I can't answer your question. I just wanted to vent my frustrations with the German language. Mark Twain puts it much more eloquently than I...

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/texts/twain.german.html

 

[PDizzle]

/agree with all of the above

Without even reading your post, the answer to your question is no, with all other things being awesome just one grade, no matter what it was will not ruin your chances for D-School. (although an F, in say... O-Chem, is gonna stand out and you prob got some splain'n to do! 😀)

Your situation is even better because it's a language course(not a prereq and not a science course), it's not an F, and you have a legit reason why it's not so hot. I would however go straight to the dean,... if you are legit. When they pull up your existing GPA, that's gonna give you a lot of credibility.

Don't worry about it. I mean, who speaks German anyway??? 😀





J/k

 

[telescopium]

I do have notes and tried to talk to the dean. The dean of students doesn't see students. I go to Kent State and pretty much as long as your tuition is payed they want you to leave them alone. The deans of various departments are generally nice and helpful, but only if you are in their major.

I emailed my teacher and he said to get more notes, even though I already submitted them to him. Hopefully he just pulls it up a little based on this.

Thanks for the replies. Oh and PreDentDJ, I know what you mean. The masculine skirt. But not only that, it is in the past perfect superlative form so do you add sten or what? Then do you split it? Do you conjugate? Oh wait, but you already conjugated once so you don't again, unless it is dependent. I need a langauge with some rules in it!! Not rules that rarely actually apply and there are 500+ irregulars.

 

[bigstix808]

So far I have been doing well in my studies. I had all A's last semester and one B-. This semester all A's again, however German.. That is what I got the B- in last time. The best I can do going into the final is a C. The worst I can do is fail or a D. I think a D+ to about a C is what I will end up with. Is that enough to keep me out of dental school? All maths and sciences are A's. The only thing I can't seem to get an A in is German.

Anyone had experience with this? I don't want this one class to ruin everything I am working so hard for. Part of the problem was I missed about two weeks of school and attendance counts. While there is no excuse, I was in the hospital and had a doctors note. The teacher, who is a grad student, wouldn't could it, and still docked me the points.

lol...nope!

 

[aggie-master]

I agree with everyone else. One C in any class won't kill you, but especially not in a language class.

If I were you, I'd try my best to just pass the class so you can put this behind you.

 

[DrReo]

I agree with everyone else. One C in any class won't kill you, but especially not in a language class.

If I were you, I'd try my best to just pass the class so you can put this behind you.

Ace that final like Richard Simmons dances to the beat.

 

[USU24]

I suppose it might be a little late in the semester for this but if not, could you switch to Pass/Fail. I'm sure dental schools wouldn't care if you didn't get a letter grade for a language class.

 

[DrReo]

I suppose it might be a little late in the semester for this but if not, could you switch to Pass/Fail. I'm sure dental schools wouldn't care if you didn't get a letter grade for a language class.

If they receive a D+, that will count as a fail at my institution.

 

[UCfan]

I got F(the only bad grade I had in my whole career) from my introduction to engineering class when I was freshman (It was 2003 I believe). Then I got full As from in my freshman and soph. classes. Then I passed to my core engineering classes. I got A only once (process control class which was my fav.) since I had the highest point average in class (which was 83 percent I believe) and never got below B. My grades are pure B+(80 percent of it) or B (20 percent of it), since only one student in our class was getting A from each class. I think your situation is much better than mine. If you study hard you can get As and have very high GPAs like many other SDNers. Keep up your spirit and do not give up 👍.

 

[joonkimdds]

I have the same problem. I always get B+ or above from 136 credits that I have except B- from OCEHm which I retook to get an A, B from ENG111, C from English112.

I hope that these 3 don't fail me.

 

[telescopium]

If they receive a D+, that will count as a fail at my institution.

Well I got a D+. I got A's in every single other class.

 

[DCRedskinsRule]

Ace that final like Richard Simmons dances to the beat.

LOL. Well said. 👍

 

[2PacClone23]

If a B- is now seen as bad, then I'm screwed because I got like 6 C's and 1 W 🙁