<p>Ok this is going to look bad, but bear with me for a second.</p>
<p>HS (all Level 1 classes, did take major subject classes as electives, rather than easier classes, which hurt me in the end unfortunately):</p>
<p>(5 math, 4 science (+1 fail), 5 social science, 4 english, 3 spanish, 3 computer, 1 elective (art))</p>
<p>9th Grade: 90.43
10th Grade: 83.25
11th Grade: 81.63
12th Grade: 76.28 (took a Chem 2 class for a challenge and bombed it since I had to put more time into a senior project, without that grade, GPA is 81.3)</p>
<p>Overall GPA: 82.8667
Overall Rank: 261/711</p>
<p>SAT (May 2001):
Writing: 570
Math: 660</p>
<p>Comm. College GPA: 2.3 (went to a community college outside of Philadelphia and took a majority of online classes, professors didn't care to help, I had to withdraw from courses A LOT because of work/family problems, etc)</p>
<p>Comm. College #2 GPA: 4.0 (only after 2 summer classes) I'm looking to take maybe 6-8 more courses to either earn my associates or have the max to transfer to a 4-year school.</p>
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<li>One note is that in HS & CC, the classes that always had the best grades were math, computers, and economics (in HS), and math & business (in CC).</li>
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<p>I'm pretty confident that my recent turnaround, coupled with my highest levels of work in the past, will be enough to grant me admission to a nice public school with a good accounting background. The only things I see that hurt me are the lack of activities in HS (worked basically after school & during summer) and the dips in my GPAs.</p>
<p>I'm definitely prepared to write essays and get recommendations from former employers and teachers if need be as well.</p>
<p>Also, I met with people at Pitt and they basically laughed in my face, even tho I did explain that if I did maintain a 3.6 average, I'd have a 3.0 GPA, which is their requirements. But I guess they didn't want to look past that first school.</p>
<p>Here's the list of schools on my radar:</p>
<p>Penn St - satellite school (Greater Allegheny)
Temple
Lehigh
Michigan
Michigan St
Ohio St
Illinois
Wisconsin
Maryland
G.Wash
Iowa
Arizona
Arizona St
UMass
Florida
Cal
San Diego St
Houston
Washington
Oregon
SUNY
CUNY</p>
<p>Really I'm almost at the point where whoever takes me is where I'd probably go unfortunately. There's no way to expunge those first classes from my record correct?</p>