How common is it to do bad in your first semester physics?

[bjc219]

I took Calculus-based physics a year ago, and to date, it's the only class I've made a B in. I guess that'd make my GPA a 3.9-something-or-other. My professor said the same thing happened to him...he made a C his first semester taking physics. I was just wondering if that happens to any other people, and how it would affect my grad school application in the future?

[axiomofchoice]

I doubt anyone will care about your freshmen physics grade if you end up doing really well in upper level physics classes. I would not sweat on the B; plus 3.9 GPA is nothing to sneer at.

For the record I did not have problem with freshmen physics... 'cause I AP'ed out of it

[bjc219]

I doubt anyone will care about your freshmen physics grade if you end up doing really well in upper level physics classes. I would not sweat on the B; plus 3.9 GPA is nothing to sneer at.

For the record I did not have problem with freshmen physics... 'cause I AP'ed out of it

Haha, cool guy. I guess, though, MIT wouldn't take a lowly 3.9 student like me

[grae313]

Nobody, not even MIT (or this forum for that matter), gives a flying f*ck about how you did in freshman physics. Next thread.