I am in a fairly difficult position. I interviewed at 4 texas schools and I am on a pre-interview hold at GW and just recently complete at Loyola and Tulane. I took an 18 credit hour semester but 3 of those hours are my senior thesis which is an "S" for satisfactory completion but no grade and 3 more hours are my school's mock trial team (poli-sci major) and my coach refuses to give grades until competition in February. So now I only have 12 credit hours of grades out of an 18 credit hour semester. I have letters explaining the lack of grades in my thesis and mock trial class but it gets worse.
All of my grades for the past year and a half have been an A (I'm at a +/- school) and capped a very nice upward trend and this semester I got 3 A's and a C- in Spanish II. The C- just drop kicked my semester GPA to a 3.3something, an obvious dip right at crunch time and my overall GPA got hurt too 3.66 to 3.62.
I am meeting with my Spanish professor in January and doing some extra credit stuff and contesting some of my grades and the professor and I have a good relationship and there is maybe a 50/50 chance that I could get the grade updated to a C or C+........
So the question; should I send update letters without grades? Just send the grades through AMCAS and TMDSAS hoping to minimalize their impact or talk about them head on? Try and hide them untill the February Texas match? What? Just respond or PM me, any suggestions appreciated.