study abroad issue

[dac091]

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[dac091]

does anyone have any advice/insight? some additional info:

the class is a photography class (i know, kind of embarassing to fail haha. i actually did all the work, i just think the professor wasn't happy with my photos. thankfully dentistry doesn't require good photography skills). all my classes are in spanish and i passed the rest of them. i'm just wondering if the fact that it's an art class will make the failing grade not so bad. the grade is a 3.5/10 (5 or more is passing).

basically, will the adcoms be sensitive to the fact that it was a grade abroad and will the fact that my GPA isn't affected by it help a lot? i'm pretty stressed about this, so any advice would be very much appreciated!

 

[Seamonkey Doc]

does anyone have any advice/insight? some additional info:

the class is a photography class (i know, kind of embarassing to fail haha. i actually did all the work, i just think the professor wasn't happy with my photos. thankfully dentistry doesn't require good photography skills). all my classes are in spanish and i passed the rest of them. i'm just wondering if the fact that it's an art class will make the failing grade not so bad. the grade is a 3.5/10 (5 or more is passing).

basically, will the adcoms be sensitive to the fact that it was a grade abroad and will the fact that my GPA isn't affected by it help a lot? i'm pretty stressed about this, so any advice would be very much appreciated!

I've never done study abroad so I didn't have to deal with study abroad grades. With that.... in my opinion, a non science class from a foreign institute should not be a big deal. At most, they might ask why you got that grade and you can give your explanation. But I wouldn't lose sleep over it, especially if the rest of your stats are fine

 

[dac091]

thank you for your response! i'm going to try and fix the grade but the professor seems pretty stubborn about it. i hope that if i have to show the transcript with the failing grade on it that it won't hinder me too much!

 

[Seamonkey Doc]

thank you for your response! i'm going to try and fix the grade but the professor seems pretty stubborn about it. i hope that if i have to show the transcript with the failing grade on it that it won't hinder me too much!

No problem, good luck 🙂

 

[dac091]

wondering if anyone who has studied abroad has experienced something similar?

 

[r2thekesh]

It depends on how the grades show up on your transcript. The SA program I did showed up exactly like a regular course. Can you withdraw?

 

[dac091]

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[ukrdon2006]

I did a SA program with University at Buffalo in Russia. It was a P/F grade system. The grade shows up on the transcript just like that, P or F. However, it was not for individual programs or classes. IE: it says "St. Petersburg Study Abroad" on my transcript, and says P. There is no break down of the classes I took over there.
Not sure how your program works, maybe you could ask your home schools SA office. They will know exactly how it will appear on you transcript.