<p>Ok so I messed up really bad in the 8th and 9th grade. Long story short I hung out with the wrong kids, didn't care about grades, I had no self confidence, and I didn't care about college. I was going down a pretty rocky path with everything. In the 8th grade I was picked on constantly through social network sites such as facebook and myspace. When I was younger I had mild JRA and it affected how fast I could run and playing sports. There was a group of kids that was really bad about it and they would make fun of me saying I couldn't run and would pick me last for everything. I know that sounds stupid but it really hurt my feelings. I had only one true friend and we promised we'd go to school together. Going into 9th grade was TOUGH. I was extremely shy as it was and I only had 1 friend. After the first week of my so called "best friend" left my school. She lied to her mom saying she was "depressed" so she could go to a school near her house but it was obviously because she wanted to go to the school her boyfriend at the time was attending. This made me really depressed. I was friendless and I didn't know how to make friends. My grades slipped horribly and I had an embarrassing overall GPA of 2.0. I gave up on myself. Little by little I interacted more with students at my school. It finally kicked in for me my last week of 9th grade year that I had to try harder both with my grades and having friends and stop kicking myself around. The summer went by and coming up to my sophomore year I promised myself that I would try harder in school and I did. I got mostly B's in this school year, asked for help when I needed it, and raised my GPA up to a 2.4 by retaking a class I pretty much bombed online. I joined activities such as Yearbook, and I excelled at track at field. I decided to be outgoing made a ton of friends. I finally started to feel happy for myself and not that I was a burden on my parents or anyone else. I am going back to school for my junior year this upcoming thursday and I am determined to get straight A's because I know I can. I care about myself way too much to just give up and have to settle for knowing what I could have been. I had never lived up to my full potential but I should have.
The schools I am looking at are University of NE- Lincoln, University of NE- Omaha, LSU, TCU, University of IA, and IA State University. I really want to go to LSU though. It's always been the school I wanted to go to but I can feel it slipping away and not being a reality since I am an out of state student from Omaha NE. I don't plan to stop taking the ACT until I get above a 26. I won't stop until I can get letters of recommendation, and I won't stop writing a really good essay to show schools how serious I am about college. This year I am doing Track, Swimming, Pro Life club, and FBLA. Is there anyway I can get my GPA up to a 3.0 by the end of my junior year and any chance of me getting into a college? I don't want to go to community college because I want to go to a 4 year university because I want to prove myself. I know I can do the work. Please any answers will help because I'm really scared I screwed everything up for myself from stupid decisions I made when I was 14.</p>
<p>Please help me it would mean alot.</p>
<p>Hey (:
I’m really sorry about what you went through.
I’m glad to hear you’re going to try to improve yourself this year, good luck, I hope you’ll do great 
Now, I don’t know about your chances, because I know nothing about the schools you’re looking at. However, you could write your common application essay on what you went through, that could explain your lower grades.</p>
<p>Good luck!!</p>
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