College first year looking for scholarships.

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<p>I go to ISU, a state college. My GPA is 3.33 because I Fk-ed up my senior year in HS and first semester in college. I've already taken 42.0 credit hours because I started college classes in my junior year in HS. I got no scholarship money, no merit, my SAT/ACT composites sucked. I filled out an international scholarship application in mid-Feb., and I got rejected.</p>

<p>I got rejected by all the private schools I applied to. I didn't get any scholarships when I entered college. And all I've ever gotten since then are rejections. It's really starting to P1SS me off.</p>

<p>What can I do to get scholarships?</p>

<p>I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm smarter than all of my friends in college. I challenge myself more than almost everyone I know. I need this money because my parents are struggling, and I want to move out of their house. What the hell can I do about this?</p>

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<p>If you challenge yourself more than almost everyone you know, then how do you have a 3.33? You’ll have to bring up your GPA and have concrete evidence of your “self-challenging nature” and the fact that you’re “smarter than all” of your friends. What do you do beyond school? Extracurrics? You’ll need those too, for almost all scholarships - very few scholarships are rewarded on the sole basis of academic merit.</p>