Doing poorly during winter semester- effect on transcript
Hello.
I'm a 4th year senior (going to take a lap year) who is struggling to get over an episode of depression. So far, my college transcripts have shown that I am a good student and that I have mostly A's and B's and my overall grade point average right now is an A-.
However, I messed up last winter semester and ended up getting D's in two courses which I had to retake in summer school (got an A and B) and unfortunately due to issues of depression (again), I recently failed a midterm and I am probably going to end up with a C in that class. My major is psychology and the courses that I did badly on were in my major.
I'm worried about how this is going to look on my transcript when I apply for graduate school in the future because they are going to see TWO winter semesters where I took certain courses and did poorly in them. I am going to do another summer session this year (to catch up on courses that I haven't taken yet and to retake this C), but I'm not sure if graduate schools will see this as a red flag.
Does anyone know if my transcripts will get extra scrutinized because of this or am I worrying about nothing? I want to apply to graduate programs in both clinical psychology and/or human development and family studies so I'm feeling anxious about applying in a year or two.
I'm a 4th year senior (going to take a lap year) who is struggling to get over an episode of depression. So far, my college transcripts have shown that I am a good student and that I have mostly A's and B's and my overall grade point average right now is an A-.
However, I messed up last winter semester and ended up getting D's in two courses which I had to retake in summer school (got an A and B) and unfortunately due to issues of depression (again), I recently failed a midterm and I am probably going to end up with a C in that class. My major is psychology and the courses that I did badly on were in my major.
I'm worried about how this is going to look on my transcript when I apply for graduate school in the future because they are going to see TWO winter semesters where I took certain courses and did poorly in them. I am going to do another summer session this year (to catch up on courses that I haven't taken yet and to retake this C), but I'm not sure if graduate schools will see this as a red flag.
Does anyone know if my transcripts will get extra scrutinized because of this or am I worrying about nothing? I want to apply to graduate programs in both clinical psychology and/or human development and family studies so I'm feeling anxious about applying in a year or two.