u/RegionFinancial4485

I’m in my junior year (2027) and I am undoubtedly going to fail AP precalculus, my total grade for the class will be somewhere around a 65-67, so I will have just barely failed. I could possibly retake the class in the summer for credit, but that might genuinely be the death of me. I’d rather do a credit by examination for a simple class like financial math just so that I can get the fourth math credit which my high school requires for graduation.

USC is my dream school. I don’t plan on majoring in STEM, my ideal major is political science. I’ve always been mid at math and science but excelled significantly in humanities. I’ll be taking AP stats next year (hopefully that goes well, I seem to enjoy the coursework much more than pre-calc as it’s less rigid in math).

Do I still have a chance of getting into USC? If I got an amazing SAT score (1580+) and had a crazy extracurricular resumé, would that be enough for admissions to at least look past my F in AP Pre-calc?

I’m honestly more nervous as to what my parents will say about the grade. However, I should obviously be nervous about how it will affect my college admissions as well, so I just need to know that I’m not completely cooked (even if it brings my odds down significantly).

If you’re a current or former student at USC (or any elite university) and you failed a class in high school, please just let me know that you exist lol.

Update: I PASSED THE CLASS

I have a lot of respect and reverence for Imam Ali, he was a great Muslim figure. A lot of Muslims (particularly Shias) associate the Zulfiqar with Ali and his values of courage and justice. I’m wondering if I would be able to wear one as a symbol of those values as well, even if I don’t look at Imam Ali in a same sense that Shias do.

What do you guys think about it, would that be fine? I expect that other Muslims would assume I am a Shia, to which I would be fine correcting them if any confusion arises.