<p>Okay so when i was a freshman my first semester was a 0.0 , sad right? I still regret it. My second semester of freshman year was a 1.1. My sophomore year i did WAY better. 1st semester was a 3.2 and 2nd semester was a 3.3. I'm currently a Junior and i really want to go to a University. is there still a chance i can go to one? HELP!!</p>
<p>What’s your overall GPA?</p>
<p>Community college may be the best option, it will give you a clean slate and you can try to earn better grades.</p>
<p>Did you take summer school courses to cover the failed courses? If you did, those grades will cover the ones of the courses you failed. At least, that’s how it is at my school.
You can try for community college or you can try going to a low-tier university; take some standardized tests (ACT, SAT, PSAT) so we can better gauge how well you’ll do in the application process. </p>
<p>Ummm… how did you achieve Sophomore status if you failed 80% of your FR year courses? Regardless, asking strangers who don’t know your school’s grading and advancement system won’t get you far. Your discussion needs to be with your GC. Glad you’ve turned things around but you might want to find out what is your REAL status and what you need to do to graduate (as well as best position yourself for college). good luck.</p>
<p>I took classes online so most of my freshman year is all covered. </p>
<p>And i did more classes that i was supposed to take as a sophomore</p>
<p>If you continue to show a strong upward trajectory in your GPA, have a strong showing in your test scores, and have a good story to explain why you did so poorly initially, then there are some moderately selective schools that will consider you. </p>
<p>It will also help if you have some extracurricular passion in which you can demonstrate talent/strength or commitment.</p>
<p>In the documentary account in the book, The Gatekeepers (about Wesleyan admissions), there was a Native American boy who was passionate about film, who was admitted into Wesleyan w a D average. </p>
<p>Yeah im actually doing a lot of extra curricular activities. So far i’ve done baseball and academic decathlon. This school year i’m doing ASB and other stuff to. I’m striving to get high grades. I think the main reason why this happened was because due to some family issues i had to move a lot within my freshman year</p>
<p>ultra: glad to hear you’re turning things around. However, know that the types of colleges you’ll be targeting will weigh your GPA x1000 over any ECs you do. Only the tippy top colleges weigh ECs considerably. The bulk of them only give them a quick glance – in reality they won’t affect you much at all. But 2-3 As vs 2-3 Bs any given semester – will be super important.</p>
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<p>Yeah i want to go to SDSU, Ball State, or Boston Uni. I live in California, and we have to do a CAHSEE which is like an exit exam and i passed both on the first try. Now i need to do extra stuff like ACT, SAT, PSAT, And i’m aiming for straight A’s from here untill i graduate. I really hope i can get into a University! :)</p>
<p>Abd akso i’ll try to see if i can do college classes :)</p>
<p>Ok, so CA won’t count freshman grades, so you may be in luck with many instate possibilities. That should be your first focus because the other colleges probably will regard it. My advice</p>
<p>–don’t do extracurriculars at the expense of your grades, keep priorities straight and just do what is reasonable</p>
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<li><p>you don’t need to do college class if you can do a challenging course at your school, AND HANDLE IT. Don’t do too much and have grades suffer, but push as hard as is reasonable. </p></li>
<li><p>take the psat seriously because it can give you an estimate of what your SAT may look like so you can start to get a better idea of what is real possibility or not. Then you can see how much you need to focus on trying to improve SAT</p></li>
<li><p>read over how csu calculates gpa, with the a to g requirements. You can even make a couple of estimates of what it might look like since it is just sophomore and Jr year (be realistic and don’t estimate all A) to compare with the minimum requirements when you get your psat. You get weighted gpa for honors and AP.</p></li>
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<p>Have you spoken with your family about finances? Boston Univ more so and less Ball state – but you’ll be an OOS student and the bill won’t be small.</p>
<p>Yes, you are very lucky to be in-state for California, because UCs and CSUs don’t look at freshman grades. You can calculate what your GPA will be for 10th/11th grade on the UC and CSU websites.</p>
<p>There’s still a GPA requirement for them, however. I do believe that for both CSUs and UCs you can’t get any grades below a C (although I’m not sure if freshmen year grades are included).</p>
<p>As long as you get a grade of C or better in all your a-g requirements for the CSU/UC schools you are OK. This does include your Freshman year, so if your on-line class grades are C or better for your a-g courses you are in good shape. Congrats on turning your grades around and continue the good work. </p>