<p>-never paid attention to my course selection for three years aka picked a lot of useless electives aka killed my weighted GPA</p>
<p>-didn't take up enough and wasn't committed to any ECs until last year (junior year)</p>
<p>-again: so many stupid, stupid electives even though all my graduation requirements were filled</p>
<p>-stayed in classes I couldn't handle just so I could say I wasn't in any college prep classes</p>
<p>-maybe don't even make the top half of my class (lucky for my my school doesn't send ranks to colleges)</p>
<p>-didn't realize how grades should've been my top priority freshman and sophomore year, since I knew I needed to get scholarships to afford college</p>
<p>Do a proper chance thread with serious information if you want us to provide you with any assistance. No whining/ranting/complaining if you’re going to succeed in the future.</p>
<p>Eh, it’s okay to whine and rant and complain as long as you move on from it. </p>
<p>Most colleges aren’t all that selective and don’t care much about ECs. And if your GPA is really so bad that you can’t get into a decent four-year college, you can always go to a community college and transfer. </p>
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<p>Your weighted GPA doesn’t matter (except for the effect it has on class rank, and it doesn’t sound like that will matter in your case). Every school weights differently, and some don’t weight at all, so colleges don’t consider the weighted GPA your school has calculated.</p>
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<p>Does this mean you took honors classes and did badly?</p>
<p>1) I know it doesn’t matter college-wise, but I just feel dumb for being ranked so low- I have friends that literally don’t care about school and blow everything off until the last second academics-wise, yet their GPAs are 3.5+ and they’re ranked in the top 25% and they made National Honors Society last year and I just feel gross and bad because I actually care and tried harder than them (at least, last year) and am still objectively less intelligent <em>deep breath</em></p>
<p>2) I took higher level (lower than honors, higher than CP) math and science classes sophomore year and got Cs in them. Last year, I did much better in math but still got a B- in Physics. I should’ve dropped down at the beginning of the year. I also should’ve dropped down to Chem CP sophomore year, against my teacher’s advice to stay.</p>
<p>Brush it off. You can’t worry about what you’ve already done. There are good colleges that will give you full tuition with a 30 on your ACT, and there are okay colleges that will give you full tuition with a 27 on the ACT.</p>
<p>These are only a few examples… there are alot and a thread on them. Get your ACT up, and you’ll be fine. You won’t get into Yale or MIT, but you can get merit scholarships from schools with a competitive SAT or ACT. You have time to improve this! At least two tests on it</p>
<p>@Patton370- Thanks for the info- I actually have my college list pretty well done right now (I don’t need any kind of full tuition scholarship, thank God). Apparently I’m still competitive for merit aid at some schools.</p>
<p>So you have safeties that you like?
If so, then there’s not really a problem. High school isn’t all that important in the grand scheme of things.</p>
<p>Hey, you started it! Pay attention, migraine; you don’t have to have everything, including your near-future, figured out yet. Be true to yourself and to your passions. Success is not determined by what grades you make, but by your character, passion, and love. Mostly love. Be great!</p>
<p>I do have safeties that I like, but I would get more merit aid from them if I had a higher GPA.
And living right now, when high school is literally everything in my life, it sucks to feel like I’m not up to par with my peers. Anyways, I got you.</p>
<p>They care about school more than they’d like you to think. People just like to create this “effortlessly brilliant” image of themselves.
Also, I got rejected from NHS even though I’m awesome, so don’t feel bad. :)</p>
<p>Ask your safeties if they will use the first semester of your senior year in GPA calculations. </p>
<p>Honestly, you brought the not feeling up to par thing on yourself. If you want to feel better about it make all A’s this year. Join the quiz team, math team, and/or science Olympiad and win an award or place high in a contest/tournament.</p>
<p>Just try to make up for it during the last year without burning yourself out. Though depending on how much improvement you want to see, you might have to burn yourself out. Either way, best of luck! There are always worse situations out there.</p>