Failed Freshman Year: Will It Affect My Graduate Admission?

[xuan_qing_le]

I failed all classes in my freshman year first semester. I am going to retake them.Does that affect my graduate admission?

 

[symbolipoint]

I failed all classes in my freshman year first semester. I am going to retake them.Does that affect my graduate admission?

When was your freshman year? Did you graduate with an undergraduate degree? With those and other information, OTHER members on physicsforums could give you better advice.

 

[Irishdoug]

If you are an undergraduate then no, provided you pass the repeats and do well in the proceeding years.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Your story doesn't make sense. Your other thread has you considerably further along. How did you get there without retaking the failed prerequisites?

 

[Choppy]

Questions of this sort do tend to come up from time to time on these forums. Often the poster seems to assume that repeating the course will result in a higher, near-perfect grade.

Sure, you can still get into graduate school if you have a bad undergraduate year. Some schools weight your GPA more heavily toward more recent years. But, the bigger question is why you failed all of your classes and what you are going to do that's different the next time around. An undergraduate physics curriculum is cumulative. Second year builds on the material learned in first year. Third year builds on the material in second year, etc.

Going from "failing" to a solid understanding of the material is a big step. A lot depends on the specific circumstances of why you failed, so make sure you figure out what you need to do differently the next time around before repeating it. Otherwise, you're at risk of a similar outcome the second time around.

 

[symbolipoint]

Going from "failing" to a solid understanding of the material is a big step. A lot depends on the specific circumstances of why you failed, so make sure you figure out what you need to do differently the next time around before repeating it. Otherwise, you're at risk of a similar outcome the second time around.

O.P. @xuan_qing_le has so far still omitted some important information.

 

[Vanadium 50]

O.P. @xuan_qing_le has so far still omitted some important information.

And he seems to be gone.