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Grad School- Below Passing Grade...
I am in a masters program, and have to take a number of prerequisite courses. The minimum passing grade in the prerequisite (undergrad) classes is a C-. There is one class I struggled with all semester, and we took a killer final, which is worth half the grade.. I am afraid that I might have done poorly, which would drop my grade to maybe a D+...right on the border.
Our course plan states that any student who gets below a C- in any course can be kicked out of the program. I am so nervous now...for anyone with familiarity with grad school (or who has gone to, or is in grad school), if I get a D+ and not a C-, is there a chance that the faculty would be somewhat flexible and allow me to stay in the program?
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Talk to someone.
It's always better, in any situation, to go and ask for help or flexibility BEFORE things reach a crisis point. So go now, to someone in the school you have a relationship with: Maybe it's the professor or TA in this class, maybe it's your advisor, or another proffessor you developed a good relationship with.
Go to them and say "Look, this is what might happen with my grades. What does that mean? Is there anything I can do? Who should I talk too about this?"
Every school is different and there can be a good deal of flexibilty, espcailly at the masters level. The trick for you now is to simply get the dialogue going, and be proactive about it, rather then just waiting for the sky to fall.
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