Advice for next 3 years/Harvard/FullRide

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Amaranthine, I am not a ■■■■■, to answer your question, I live in New Jersey, and family income is around 50 thousand USD. To Kiaranln, Not sure if you are trying to mess with me or not, however it is clear that Harvard is not my die all school, is it my main school that I’m working for yes. If you can answer my question, I am willing to commit to any school, that meets the criteria that I just posted around 40 minutes ago. Also it’s quite obvious that I’m not going to be recruited as a freshman, you need to graduate high school to play for college. ASU does not meet the criteria that I outlined in the response. You are right that I have ALOT to do. </p>

<p>Now friends, will you help me with advise, not just bro you ■■■■■ and you will never get in so go to ASU, more of ok you need to do this this this this this this this, and also this, while improving on ALOT of things in order to succeed.</p>

<p>I will not go to ASU or any ‘party’ school. If no school accepts that meets the criteria I outlined, I don’t go to college.</p>

<p>After all, the majority of successful people did not, so I won’t waste my time if it does not meet my expectations. Not trying to sound rude, but I want the absolute best, and accept no substitutes.</p>

<p>Thank you for your responses,</p>

<p>Paul</p>

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<p>Get your grades up and apply to Rutgers, it’s a good public college, and a cheap option. </p>

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<p>You’re not being rude, you’re being childish. If everyone accepted nothing but “the absolute best”, then no one would be going to college because almost no one except for a few thousand students have the stats to get into top tier colleges. Suck up your pride and go to a school that fits your needs academically. Your grades do not indicate that you will succeed at schools like Harvard.</p>

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<p>I don’t know if you know what “the majority” means, but I’m guessing you’re basing your information off on the very FEW billionaires that dropped out of college (Jobs, Gates, etc). If you want to screw up your entire future, then by all means, don’t go to college and brace yourself for the likelihood that you will end up with a dead-end job.</p>

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<p>Guess what?
The best colleges feel exactly the same when choosing students.
Based on your performance, you are far from “the best.”
And so it goes.</p>

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<p>You should read the athletic recruit applicant forum and learn more about the recruiting process. There is also a book about Ivy League athletic recruiting available from Amazon.</p>

<p>Your grades are not there yet. You indicate that you didn’t get into honors courses for next year. The best shot you have at Harvard is improving your grades enough to get into honors and AP courses for junior year, but also spend time going to recruiting camps at specific colleges (on site at Harvard, not a multi-college camp).</p>

<p>Anyone whose family makes only $50,000 per year will get a full ride to most if not all Ivies. There are a lot of other schools who promise 100% of the EFC as well. The sooner you look into the athletic recruit part of your college search, the better off you will be.</p>

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<p>To truust, I understand that taxpayer money is used for Public schooling. I wish to get a Free Ride from the school itself ( which means the school pays not taxpayers). As unbelievable it seems, nothing is impossible. Just tell the Romans that they will fall like they did, you will get far worse responses then I seem to be receiving. Obviously I’m not entitled, hence why I’m not entitled to go to college, and can easily follow the several hundred people who live success if all else fails. That’s great that the colleges I want only want the best, the main point of this post is to mold myself to be that ‘best’.</p>

<p>Now, as I fear that this is going to become a hate fest very soon. I will point out one question that if possible, you could answer.</p>

<p>Interests:</p>

<p>Politics, ( President Of The United States )</p>

<p>CEO, Plan to run my own corporate empire, treat my workers fairly and show that people can live very well and still have a profitable enterprise, and put John D. Rockefeller to shame.</p>

<p>Scientist, I love how we can advance as a species when we pursue the discovery of new things, and the conquering of the unknown.</p>

<p>Plan to be all 3 of these things within my lifetime, so I need a very special college to teach me the skills and give me the tools.</p>

<p>I need a very good faculty, Nobel Prize winners, experts in their field, not afraid to teach and promote the questioning of everything.</p>

<p>Excellent peers that can become my future connections for running a corporate enterprise, intelligent, hard working peers who love a challenge.</p>

<p>A school that has a large amount of money for research, so I can learn how to be a great scientist, and work on a team that can possibly discover something incredible.</p>

<p>Very good dorm rooms are a plus.</p>

<p>What colleges in the United States Of America offer exactly what I just said. Just a simple question. I don’t think Rutgers or ASU fit the bill ( If they do, please tell me their programs.)</p>

<p>Simple question. Which colleges, and the colleges that you say, what do I have to do in order to get in them. ( Take Impossible out of your vocabulary for this one question please :smiley: )</p>

<p>Thank you, and remember that I appreciate your assistance.</p>

<p>Paul</p>

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<p>Thank you Rhandco, I will add your advice to my plan. Any set GPA that I should aim for? I heard that a 3.5 and a 2200 is the ballpark nowadays.</p>

<p>Thank you for your comment</p>

<p>Paul</p>

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<p>trip trap trip trap</p>

<p>Just on the .00001 percent that’s not the case, you might want to do your assignments and study for tests. A native Spanish speaker getting an 83 in Spanish II? And listing POTUS as your intended career or at least one of your intended careers? I guess you need a break from studying.</p>

<p>If someone had the stats listed, I would advise working harder and plan on community college or a high admission rate state college for two years. Stellar grades there could open more doors. Turning grades around takes more than wishing it so. A student with those grades should be studying instead of playing on the computer.</p>

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<p>Paul I have only 1 piece of advice. Exert yourself to the maximum the next two years grades wise and extracurricular-wise. Then come back here and formulate a more realistic plan. Right now your grades indicate that you’re a very poor student. Maybe you were not dedicated. After those results than we can better judge.</p>

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<p>Even still, you MIGHT get your unweighted GPA up to like a 3.0. Which is far from remarkable. It’s unbelievable how someone with such poor grades could be so pretentious. Check your priorities kid. Because based on your “requirements” you won’t be getting into any school.</p>

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<p>I don’t think you understand how financial aid works whatsoever. No matter what a public university gives you as aid, what you get is subsidized by tax revenue.</p>

<p>Anyways, your “career goals”, if you can even call them that, are ridiculous and I’m 100% they won’t happen; however, it is clear that you have varied interests, so I would say look at a few LACs.</p>

<p>But, as @theanaconda‌ poster pointed out, you’re still a freshman and this entire thread is completely pointless. Wait a year or two, then post again. By then, you will have a more accurate representation of your final GPA anyways.</p>

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<p>^^agreed. I think he can raise it up though. And some top colleges don’t consider freshman gpa like Stanford. Perhaps Paul just had poor dedication this year. Let’s see what he can do in the next 2 years and then we can give him accurate advice. He’s too pretentious however.</p>

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<p>^ Thank you posters, I admit as a freshman this is still up for grabs and a ‘chance’ thread at this stage is basically pointless. I would like to thank all 40 or so posters for responding. I’ll see if I can make a post every year updating on my progress, and see if there is anything that needs updating. Right now, I just have to work harder in 3 years than I have done in 9, it’s going to be fun.</p>

<p>Thank you CC, best forum for college advice out there,</p>

<p>Paul</p>

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<p>as a football recruit for a handful of ivy league schools I can answer this. Academically, you are going to need at the minimum around a 3.2 gpa and an 1800 SAT- this is granting that you are off the charts athletically. Personally, I have a 3.4 GPA and a 1970 SAT/30 ACT, and have spoken with coaches from all ivys, and even have an offer from brown. As far as financial aid goes, ivy league schools don’t offer money for athletics. Everything is predicated on your family’s earnings, just as it would be for any regular student. </p>

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<p>I’d say a good GPA and SAT to shoot for would be a 3.5 and a 2000. With these you wont run into any problems with admissions as a recruited football player. Still, as of now you are pretty far off and definitely need to improve academically if you want a chance to play at Harvard. And even with good academics you still need to be a D1 caliber athlete. </p>

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<p>This thread is so ■■■■■. </p>

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<p>This thread is laughable. Although OP is most likely trolling, any other misguided hooked kiddies out there - please understand this - you’d best check out your local community college if you believe being sub-par across the board makes you worth anything more than the dog crap I step on.</p>

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<p>Most kids that are applying to Harvard are kids that are naturally smart and also work hard. To get in to any top tier school you should be both. Hard work alone will not get you into Harvard, same with being smart. Also, a CEO or President of the United States wouldn’t get a D in Algebra one. </p>

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<p>@nickxx‌ . Agreed with smart and work hard. But for president of the USA, Obama did weed in high school I thu j and George bush was dumb</p>

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<p>@theanaconda doing drugs doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t smart or work hard. Presidents are supposed to be leaders though and that’s why they are where they are. </p>

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<p>@nickxxx yeah. I’m just saying they smarts might not be as important for president as it is for other jobs.</p>