<p>I am a senior in HS and currently have already decided to go to a Community College.
I have already taken 2 classes there this summer and got 4.0 GPA in both of them! I actually like the college, it's very big and modern. </p>
<p>I have just discovered that my Community College actually offers a guaranteed admission program for engineering students to UIUC. I live in Illinois btw.
The requirements are pretty much you just have to maintain a 3.3+ GPA. </p>
<p>I am 100% confident I am majoring in Computer Science, and considering going to UIUC since it has TOP 5 CS program in the nation.</p>
<p>The Guaranteed Admission requirements don't even ask any of your HS records, or even your test scores.</p>
<p>What matters now? I feel like even if I try hard in highschool, it'll make no difference because College is where I'll be getting all the As and spending all my energy on. </p>
<p>It has me confused seriously. All my peers I think have some social standard and that they have to do good in HS and go to good out of state university.
While I can go to the TOP 5 school in my major , and save lot of money by going to CC.</p>
<p>Well technically no since by the time you apply to colleges out of a JC with your guaranteed admission program and what not, your HS grades will not be taken into account if you have more than 60 units (in most cases). I mean don’t coast and fail every class but at least make it an effort to understand the material. I would still try my hardest in high school, however, the choice is up to you.</p>
<p>Do you really think that you can’t learn any more at your high school between now and June? You seem to think that the only reason for high school is to ensure that you get into the college of your choice but believe it or not, the more you actually learn there, the better you will succeed in college. Just because you got a couple of A’s at the community college doesn’t mean you already know everything that your senior year can teach you.</p>
<p>It sounds like you just want an excuse to slack off for the rest of the year. You may be totally confident that you will major in Computer Science and that all your current plans will work out but things happen that the average 17 year old never anticipates, and by failing to put in your best effort between now and the end of the school year you are risking your future.</p>
<p>Besides, I would think that personal pride would prevent any intelligent student from getting crappy grades their senior year in high school.</p>
<p>I am learning, learning a lot. I will be studying for the AP exams, but I want that to be my priorities than my grades. </p>
<p>I transferred from another country in my freshman year, and my grades were really screwed up by that time. I had couple of Cs and Ds that brought my GPA down, so I knew it was over for me. Faced somewhat depression because I always wanted to succeed. Plus adding my stutter problem made it like hell for me, HS never truly felt right. I was just really different from others. </p>
<p>For example, APES, completely useless class to my major.Then we do these unrelated speeches every week in English, I don’t see a point. Just not for me. </p>
<p>If I want to learn, I want to learn and get it done fast and rightfully. HS doesn’t truly offer you that.
But I won’t sit here and complain. I never should be.</p>
<p>I’m a senior in HS and I’m actually taking the CC route and hopefully transferring to UCLA. And I think you should still try to get straight A’s, try to get a really work ethic for college. Learning and understanding is a beautiful thing. Even if you won’t use it in your lifetime.</p>
<p>There is a Community College success story thread. I think there were people with lower than 2.5 gpa in HS going into top 50 universities. </p>
<p>Of course that shouldn’t mean I should be getting a 2.5 gpa.
Considering how trashy my transcript already is, it’s quite obvious I wouldn’t be going straight into a 4 Year uni. I would go through CC for 2 years, which they mostly won’t care of my HS record.</p>