<p>I am a Junior in High School. I have never been serious about school, until now. I just met with my counselor and I was told that I have a (1.6 GPA). My heart stopped when he told me. I want to go to college but I don't know what to do now. Any advice will be appreciated.</p>
<p>What you can do: Work hard and raise your gpa.
There are plenty of lower ranked colleges including 4-year ones that accept virtually any h.s. grad who applies and who can pay their costs.</p>
<p>You also can go to a community college and then transfer to a 4-year college.</p>
<p>Getting into college will be the easy part as long as you are realistic about where to apply. Clearly, you're not going to get into one of the nation's top colleges.</p>
<p>Unless you develop a stronger work ethic, however, your problem will be staying in college because if you continue to have bad grades in college, you'll swiftly be kicked out.</p>
<p>A question to consider: Are you sure that you want to go to college? Not every person -- including very smart people -- is a good match for a college education. You say that you've never been serious about school.</p>
<p>Perhaps you'd be better suited to doing post h.s. vocational training. Such training is not for dummies. One has to be hard working and talented to do well in it. Such training in fields like electronics, culinary sciences, plumbing can lead to very lucrative careers, more lucrative than many fields that college grads enter.</p>
<p>I really do want to go to a college. I've been playing softball for 10 years and I would love to go to college and play softball. I know that I am capable of making good grades. I just want to make sure it's not too late.</p>
<p>It is not too late as the college options that I listed prove.</p>
<p>But to have the best chance of graduating from college, you need to raise your grades. Fortunately for you, colleges are more likely to admit a student who greatly raises their grades junior and senior year than the colleges would admit a student whose grades greatly drop during those years.</p>
<p>LTT01, Northstarmom's advice is sound about working hard to raise your grades from this point on. Also, work really hard to prepare for your SAT's/ACT's. If you are serious about playing in college, you might talk to your coach to see what some of your options are. Junior colleges might be one, or even some of the D2 programs.</p>
<p>Thank you very much. I am making a change. Today is the beginning of the rest of my life:)</p>
<p>You can also try getting a phenomenal SAT score.</p>
<p>What would colleges do if they saw like a 2350 SAT score and a 2.0 gpa?</p>
<p>I would say say something in the essays if you did have a "revelation moment". Like, I never realized what I was doing. Then, one day, I woke up junior year, and realized that this my future, blah blah blah, kinda thing</p>
<p>Better now than never! Best of luck to you. :)</p>
<p>Yes, an essay of that sort would definitely be in order. </p>
<p>Honestly, most colleges would probably think, what was this genius doing for 2 years in hs? They would think you are a brilliant slacker ;)</p>
<p>"What would colleges do if they saw like a 2350 SAT score and a 2.0 gpa?"</p>
<p>They'd think you were a brilliant slacker. Some second tier colleges might accept you to boost their freshmen SAT scores. Probably no first tier colleges would accept you, however, because they know that students like you are likely to flunk out due to lack of a work ethic.</p>
<p>I have a S with similar scores/gpa who did flunk out of a 2nd tier where he probably had some of the highest scores in his freshman class. He flunked out because he didn't go to class and didn't bother to take the tests or do homework.</p>
<p>my history teacher went to BU with stats like that (mad SAT score and terrible gpa) so it's pretty possible</p>
<p>OP, my thought/recommendation would be to get that GPA up to a 2.0 and try to get recruited to play softball at a community college. That way you can get good grades there and transfer to a better school for your junior and senior years. With a 1.6 you can't expect any miracles, but you can at least build yourself up to where you want to go. Good luck!</p>
<p>"What would colleges do if they saw like a 2350 SAT score and a 2.0 gpa?"</p>
<p>2nd rate State schools will like. Top State schools like UGA will consider ??? I base that all on nothing xD</p>
<p>You need a whole life change...</p>
<p>Here are some questions you need to ask yourself, and answer honestly as to why you got into this position with the GPA and what changes you need to make to bring it up:</p>
<p>Do you hang with a crowd that cares or doesn't care about school</p>
<p>Does your sport add or subtract from your school work</p>
<p>Do you get to school on time</p>
<p>Do you even go to school all the time</p>
<p>Do you work</p>
<p>Do you get enough sleep</p>
<p>How much effort do you put into your school work and find the work hard or do you blow it off</p>
<p>Are you bored with the work or overwhelmed by it</p>
<p>Do you have a place to do your homework and study</p>
<p>How much time do you put in</p>
<p>Where do you sit in class</p>
<p>What do you do after school</p>
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<p>If you truely want to go to improve your grades you need to:</p>
<p>REALLY be proactive- meet with each and every teacher ASAP and see what you are missing, homework wise, if you can do extra credit, and show you are really interested in working hard and are willing to meet with them if they are available to catch up</p>
<p>Find someone in each class to study with, it might be hard if you are percieved as a slacker, but with some time, it is possible</p>
<p>Create a system for your papers, books, get a good study area</p>
<p>Look at what you do with your free time, block a set of time, ie Sunday afternoons that are TOTALLY devoted to catchup work, extra studying, etc BEYOND regular day to day work</p>
<p>Find someone you can emulate, or secretly compete with to push yourself</p>
<p>Create a place in your room with pictures of where you want to be- or what kind of job, having visual reminders of goals will help alot</p>
<p>Look at who you hang out with, are they good students or not, if not, get some new friends who are, being around people that are excited about school and college can motivate you</p>
<p>If you can give us a few clues as to how you got into this situation, we can help with concrete ideas to help you</p>
<p>It is good you realize whoa, better fix this...its not too late, you just need to be really serious- you can and will have a create college future- whether its starting at a CC and transferring or going into a college first, you just need to look at what got you to where you are and figure what serious changes you need to make</p>
<p>So RIGHT NOW< this weekend make a list of what you need to do...</p>
<p>If you can email all your teachers if you have that option, and be very honest, tell them what you told us, and that you would like to meet with them to figure out a game plan</p>
<p>Clean your room, and get THAT part organized, fresh start means all aspects of your life</p>
<p>Get new folders, etc, clean out your back pack, call friends in your classes and ask if they have any handouts, papers etc that you don't have and see if you can make copies</p>
<p>Get 3by5 cards, etc to help with studying and organizing</p>
<p>If your home is not conducive to studying, find a place that is, the school library, a coffee shop</p>
<p>Get to school EARLY everyday if possible and use that time to work</p>
<p>If you are used to using that time to hang with friends, cut friend time short, they will still be there for you and you will soon discover its the same old conversations everyday anyway</p>
<p>See if the teachers have office times where you can go in to get help, you may be a smart kid, but you have some catching up to do, especially if you have midterms coming up</p>
<p>You can really do this, and bring up that GPA and it may seem daunting to make changes, but once you start with these steps it will fall into place</p>