Failed my first class ever

[theghost]

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I failed the class because I wasn't smart enough to read the syllabus and realize that if I don't pick up all of my quizes from the professor during his office hours then they become zeros.

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You should try to fight this. Make an appointment with your dean.

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I failed the class because I wasn't smart enough to read the syllabus and realize that if I don't pick up all of my quizes from the professor during his office hours then they become zeros.

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You should try to fight this. Make an appointment with your dean.

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What exactly would you plan to say? "I didn't bother to read the syllabus and realize that I had to do X, Y and Z to pass"? I'm betting most of the students in the class passed, because they picked up their quizzes, and that leaves him with not much to stand on.

[bdmcgraw]

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I failed the class because I wasn't smart enough to read the syllabus and realize that if I don't pick up all of my quizes from the professor during his office hours then they become zeros.

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You should try to fight this. Make an appointment with your dean.

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What exactly would you plan to say? "I didn't bother to read the syllabus and realize that I had to do X, Y and Z to pass"? I'm betting most of the students in the class passed, because they picked up their quizzes, and that leaves him with not much to stand on.

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I was thinking more like "I obviously understood\learned all of the material. It isn't my fault that some stupid [censored] has a ridiculous rule in his class."

[Aloysius]

OP - I believe there is a fairly straightforward, simple metric, that weights your LSAT and your GPA to come to a raw number for admissions purposes. Most US law schools go strictly by this metric I think. Ask your academic advisor, or just search online or go to a bookstore and you will find this.

Other considerations are factored in (e.g. if you were an Olympic athlete). Most notable other non-score consideration is quality of your undergrad education. There is a reason why at, say Columbia Law, like 80% of the admittees are from 10 schools.

The F will impact your chances at law school as it will be calculated in the above metric... but is also a red flag. You will have to think of some clever way to explain it away - again ask your academic advisor, or get some law school handbook crap, to assist you.

-Al

Edit - by "quality" of undergrad, I mean prestige, obviously the quality of say a Harvard education and a less prestigious undergrad education can be quite similar.