<p>sentimentGX4 and chaosakita, you are using your own school experiences as arguments to dismiss the OP’s school experience. I hope you realize this is highly illogical. You can’t know what it takes to get an A or a B at his/her school, or anything about his/her actual level of intelligence. So stop embarrassing yourselves, chaosakita in particular.</p>
<p>The funny thing about this thread isn’t that whether it’s about the dichotomy between being cool or not, it’s about choosing to do work or not. The reason OP has failed high school isn’t because he chose to be cool, it’s because he chose not to do his work.</p>
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<p>Like I said, unless the OP goes to Harvard Westlake (or some rigorous private school) or a top-tier magnet school, there’s no reason for me NOT to assume that the OP should not be of a school of similar or lower difficulty than mine. And if the OP was going to one of those types of very difficult schools, than s/he is obvious wasting his/her parent’s money or wasting a spot that definitely could’ve gone to a different person. Actually, for any sort of selective school that would actually be difficult, the OP probably would’ve gotten kicked out with his/her grades and I doubt that there would be a sort of culture that would really be prevalent in that kind of school either. I’ve written out why I’ve thought the way I do, and you decide to dismiss my arguments simply because the OP hasn’t spelled out in big bold underlined neon letters how difficult their school is.</p>
<p>Also, if the OP had preformed terribly in freshman and sophomore years, it’s doubtful that he’d be able to be placed in any truly difficult classes during the second half of high school.</p>
<p>You also seemed to assume that my school was very easy, which actually made the wrong conclusion.</p>
<p>lol (Twice the lols…twice the uncaring?)</p>
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<p>Cool for you. But on the other hand, why hang out in a forum full of whiny undergrad (high school) students?</p>
<p>I think OP should just go to community college and transfer. It’s not the end of the world. </p>
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<p>Without reading every post after the original one, I can relate to TC. </p>
<p>I did terribly in the first two years of high school after getting straight A’s and a President’s Award in middle school. I’m still not sure why it happened, I can only blame it on my lack of motivation. </p>
<p>Anyways, my cumulative gpa when I applied to colleges last fall was a 3.1 unweighted. On the other hand though, I got a 3.8 first semester of senior year and might get a 4.0 second semester. But ultimately, it was too little, too late. I got rejected from everything except for UC Merced and Riverside, and CSU Fullerton. </p>
<p>I will be attending a community college and have ambitious plans for transferring out. </p>
<p>TC and everyone else: Work your ass off in high school; don’t make the same mistake as me.</p>
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Regardless of how bitter a high school instructor is, it is not to his best interest to fail his students. Flunking too many students reflects negatively on the instructor as well as the students. </p>
<p>For this reason, most high school teachers and even college professors will make an effort to pass his students. This is not to say every instructor is going to hand everyone an “A”; but merely that they give students D’s or F’s very infrequently.</p>
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I would actually like to toss the ball back to you and invite you to look up the GPA distributions at College Board and find a college that will accept a student with a transcript littered with D’s and F’s.</p>
<p>There are community colleges that are obligated to accept practically any student but even their GPA distributions will be higher than the OP’s GPA from averaging all the B students. The other exception are for-profit colleges.</p>
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On the contrary, my “school experience” does not completely dismiss the OP’s school experience. The OP indicated that his high school courses weren’t “hard” for him, not that they were “Harvard Westlake” quality courses that some of you are arbitrarily arguing. </p>
<p>I am building on and reinterpreting the OP’s account of his high school experience while those who disagree with me are the ones dismissing the OP’s experience completely and proposing highly irregular, off tangent alternate experiences.</p>
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<p>I came back to CC mainly for grad school admissions in the grad school forum, though I occasionally check this forum. When I saw you and others being completely asinine, I had to reply.</p>
<p>And the rest of your post shows how little you know and how judgmental you are. Really, just stop.</p>
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<p>Honestly, are you just too lazy to do it yourself?</p>
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<p>The list goes on. The OP’s transcript is not “littered with D’s and F’s” - he said he got 1 F and a few D’s, but he’s retaking them. </p>
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<p>I don’t even know what this is supposed to mean – CC’s have open enrollment and don’t record people’s high school GPAs.</p>
<p>Most of the cool kids at my school at least get Cs and Bs, so…</p>
<p>I don’t know about you all, but in my social circles, having bad grades isn’t “cool.” I know this doesn’t help OP right now, but for others, I’ll say that it’s definitely possible to have a great social life and maintain decent grades. If your friends think it’s okay to completely blow off schoolwork to the point of getting Ds and Fs, maybe they’re not the right people to be hanging out with.</p>
<p>Yeah man. I was trying to be in the main scene of my high school but jeopardized both my reputation and grades in doing so. I have about a 3.7 GPA weighted. Not good. 13 Bs, 29 As. Hope I can pull it up senior year and write a damn good essay.</p>
<p>Yup i regret it a bit. I mean my situation is not that bad. But its still kind of pity. I am an international student and getting a 4.0 is very rare and hard here. Next, high school gpa does not even matter as universities here do not consider it in the admission process. That said i slacked off fresh and soph years a bit, ended up with 3.5 GPA both year. Now that i decided to study in the usa i kind of realised that my gpa matters and did better. My junior gpa is 3.8 now. It kind of sucks because if i hadnt slacked off i would have a much better chance at getting into my top schools. But freshman and soph yrs in my school follows general education programme where you cant choose classes and advanced placement, so maybe they wont even consider it (i really hope so).</p>