Help. Possible C in Anatomy

First, I certainly would not recommend failing the class to retake. Unless there is a rule where you are that C's cannot be retaken (which would be a bizarre rule in my mind), getting a C the first time and then an A the second time would be better than an F the first time and an A the second time. I don't see any reason to "just fail" unless there is some strange rule in place.

With a C in Anatomy, there are a couple things I would think about in regards to retaking. First, what is the policy of the school you are applying to in regards to retakes? Some schools don't accept retakes at all, some may average both the old and new grade together, and some may only consider the new grade. As long as they accept retakes in some way, I certainly would consider doing so at some point. The main question then would be when.

I generally would recommend to go ahead and get the retake earlier rather than later. You will have the information fresh in your mind and hopefully will really excel the second time around. The main exception to that would be if you don't know that you could do that much better the second time through. If you thought it would still take you a ton of time/effort to potentially get a B this time, it may not be worth it but if you think an A could be achieved the next time, it very well could be. Retaking would also hopefully set you up well to do better in physiology whenever you do take it and maybe it won't be as much of a struggle with a very solid foundation in anatomy. The main reason to just continue through the prereqs now would just be to push through, apply for whatever cycle you hope to start, and see what happens. Then, if you happen to not be accepted, you could always go back and catch the Anatomy again (but obviously, at that point, it may be harder to retrieve all the information from your memory banks the second time around).

Again, before anything, I would reach out to the school you hope to go to for nursing and find out how they view retakes. If they only take the most recent grade (or in some other way it seems "worth it" to retake), I would probably look to do so sooner rather than later if you feel you could jump from the C up to an A.

Thank you for your response. I think what this person was trying to say was that if I failed and retook the class, the grade would be replaced and the new one would be replaced with the F not counting towards the gpa. If I retook the class with this final grade being a C they would just average it but I guess it would show growth. I don’t want to have an F on my transcript so I guess I’m really weighing whether or not to move foreword with the C.

On 5/10/2019 at 4:01 PM, Alexandra Nicolette said:

Thank you for your response. I think what this person was trying to say was that if I failed and retook the class, the grade would be replaced and the new one would be replaced with the F not counting towards the GPA. If I retook the class with this final grade being a C they would just average it but I guess it would show growth. I don’t want to have an F on my transcript so I guess I’m really weighing whether or not to move foreword with the C.

I recommend retaking classes for a strsight 4.0 GPA, I had a 3.8 in science GPA and had a hard time getting in any school.

This post was from last year and I retook it at another college. Thanks for the input anyway!

On 10/2/2020 at 11:28 AM, Alexandra Nicolette said:

This post was from last year and I retook it at another college. Thanks for the input anyway!

yes it is possible at a different college or different district! Best of luck!