D on transcript. Am I cooked or absolutely burnt
Straight to the point for freshman year biology I ended the 2nd semester with a D. I couldn’t handle the load as it was conjoined with FFA ( it was Agricultural Biology ) and couldn’t attend many of the activities simply because it overlapped with community service events I did from freshman year as the meetings were sporadically planned and announced the week of when I already made another commitment. Whenever I brought up it up my counselors I ways always hit with “On some cases colleges / universities still will accept you since it’s not a F” or “Credit recovery classes & summer school is already full”. ( this was end of junior & sophomore year ). I’m planning to explain the circumstances it in additional comments
Could that D jeopardize me because otherwise im an average student overall with a 3.5 GPA overall & 3.7 sophomore — junior yr and no grade lower than a C other than that one semester of biology. I’m not looking to apply to schools such as UCB , UCLA mostly aiming for UCR & UCSC so maybe that’ll help pin point an explanation.
I don’t mind giving more clarification if needed because I do tend ramble up my words.