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Coming from someone who slacked their ass off in high school and totally found motivation and kicked it into gear in college, don't worry about an Algebra I grade of C affecting an otherwise good report card, and her chances of getting into a good college.
I always had bad math / science grades because I hated the tedium of the stuff. My core GPA when I graduated from high school was a 2.93 I think, if you take into account only english social studies math and science courses--core ciriculum stuff. I go to UMass, Amherst, which isn't ivy league, but it's competitive and definitely up there. My SAT's were 1280, and the average for the school when I entered was an 1130, so that definitely worked in my favor.
Then in college I ended up taking advanced japanese courses, and now I'm working on incorporating an economics degree into there too. I went to japan for 4 months, I speak japanese conversationally, etc. I couldn't even pass a vocab test without cheating in my high school french classes. It's all about helping her find her motivation.
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