<p>I've just zoomed into my Senior year of high school. I started trying to learn about colleges when I was a sophomore, but the 'panic' I'm feeling right now did not begin to hit full force until the summer of this year. I know what I want to do: I want to become an English teacher. I plan on going to Japan to teach English (I want a minor in Japanese or Asian Studies) and maybe a double major with history, so I could also be qualified to teach history. That's probably a problem in itself, but here is my issue:</p>
<p>I think I am going to crash and burn in any admissions process.</p>
<p>As of right now, my GPA is 3.0. I was told that about a week ago by my guidance counselor (who I have been trying to get a meeting with since first semester of my junior year) and I was so happy I thought I was going to seriously cry. My transcript, I wish I could burn it. I have failed, or near failed, almost anything involving math. I am just terrible at math. </p>
<p>Now, all that pessimism out of the way, is there any way I can get into a college that is NOT fourth tier or absolute fail?</p>
<p>My freshman year I had four Cs, failed Math Foundations I, one B, two As.</p>
<p>My sophomore year was two Fs (Algebra I, English II Honors), one B, one C, four As.</p>
<p>Last year I retook Algebra I and passed with an A (somehow), and, all together, made 6 As and two Bs. I took A.P. American History and made an A both semesters, but only scored 2 on the test. I'm very ashamed of those first two English scores (C and then failing Honors by ONE POINT AUGH) when I want to teach English.</p>
<p>Right now, I have three As and a...not pleasing...score in Chemistry this semester so far. Last time I checked it was a 76.</p>
<p>Would they look at my improvement over the years?</p>
<p>I took the ACT and my composite score was 26. I had a 28 in English, 24 in Science, 17 in Math, and 35 in Reading. Yeah, you can obviously see I am the fail at math.</p>
<p>I'm also worried about what schools I could even go to that would let me take Japanese classes. My mother makes 14,000 a year and my dad flat-out thinks college is stupid and that I shouldn't go. (He doesn't have a job.) So I don't know how I could even handle the money issue. I've been told about FAFSA, but I know all schools don't do the 'full percent of need'. My only option right now is a 97.5% acceptance rate fourth tier school (East Tennessee State University). I've been told this is very bad, but I was told I couldn't go to the University of Tennessee either.</p>
<p>Any help?</p>
<p>I've been coming to this site and looking at things for a while, but I've always been apprehensive about posting because, to be frank, everyone here seems like they don't really have these issues - believe me, I would be so happy to even have the score most people 'are kind of worried' would get rejected from HARVARD.</p>