Does anyone here regret trying to be "cool"?

[chaosakita]

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lol, that’s not true at all. Since you seem to be so fixated on scores and grades, riddle me this: I scored a 2350 on the SAT and 800s on the subject tests, yet failed chemistry in tenth grade, never got an A in math, and barely passed physics. How come? Because I simply didn’t study enough in school.

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<p>Uh, great for you.</p>

<p>Unless you got to some great magnet school or had a really hard teacher (wouldn’t you probably be kicked out - idk) I don’t see why you would fail chemistry. I never studied for chemistry either. </p>

<p>And if you were smart, you would know that correlation between the SAT and grades are not 100%. So yeah, you are a possible anomaly. No sorry, I can’t calculate the chi square value of that. </p>

<p>The guy who got Calculus of the year (for a class I got kicked out of) probably didn’t score as high on the math ACT as I did. But whose actually better at math?</p>

<p>And you refer to high school in past tense, why are you still here? @_@</p>

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Performance in high school depends on effort, not ‘talent’ or ‘intelligence’ or natural ability or anything like that. (Not that I think the SAT measures any of these things.) It doesn’t matter how smart you (think you) are if you never do your homework. At least not at schools like mine, where homework is tough and you get severely penalized for missing it. I assume that’s also the case at the OP’s school. The fact that you know people who get amazing grades with little effort says more about the rigor of the school than about their abilities.*

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<p>Are you saying my school is unrigorous? lol, compare to what? Harvard-Westlake, Einstein? Thomas Jefferson? Just because we proles don’t go there doesn’t mean we can’t get a semi-decent education.</p>

<p>My school is definitely in the top 10% of competitiveness in public schools, so it’s even more preposterous to assume that the OP’s school is any more competitive than mine. Yet despite doing no work, I am still in the top 10%. (I know this wouldn’t be the case if my GPA was unweighted though) So no, not doing work is still not an excuse.</p>

<p>So yeah, unless the OP is going to the aforementioned Harvard-Westlake or TJ or the like, there really is no excuse for getting D’s and F’s besides sleeping in school. </p>

<p>And you can go CRY MOAR about your school’s so-called “rigor” too.</p>

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Also, lol @ “[an] ACT score […] that’s even higher than mine” You make it sound like it’s an anomaly or something.

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<p>Woah, I didn’t know that thousands of people across the US score higher than me on a test taken by millions of people. womg</p>

<p>Just be glad I can talk and walk at the same time.</p>

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The people in this thread acting like hard asses probably never had the option to go out with friends.</p>

<p>Seriously, if you think an intelligent person can’t fail classes just because all you’ve done your entire life is study, then you need to stop being so closed minded.</p>

<p>In most classes, if you don’t turn in work, you fail.

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<p>Hahaha, you’re funny.</p>

<p>Not.</p>

<p>While I might not go out, like I said, I pretty much never study nor do work. I mean, I guess I do projects and some busywork, but most of that can be completed in one study hall period.</p>

<p>Even among my friends who do things with their freetime and never do their homework while having no chance of ever getting into the OP’s dream schools, they still don’t get Ds and Cs.</p>