<p>Your college GPA so far is matching up with your HS GPA. You likely need a good college counselor that can help you realistically chart out your college path. You also likely need better study skills and strategies and perhaps help with selecting your coarse load each semester. Maybe even your intended major (what is it?). I could be a very mediocre Chem/Bio/Physics major, perhaps a terrible one at best. Instead, I explored majors that I could excel in, such as English, Music, Political Science. It is a choice to make. If I was passionate about the hard sciences, perhaps I'd stick with a major that was not my strength. Thankfully, I'm not.</p>
<p>What we on CC can help you with right now is a diagnosis of what went wrong in your first semester and tips on how to do better next semester. However, you really need to utilize a good counselor on your campus to cover all of your bases.</p>
<p>You sound like a person with a lot of enthusiasm and big dreams, but not enough tools and insights (yet) to make them happen. Enjoy the journey and worry a tiny bit less about making a grand splash in the world. Ivy schools are not the only path to financial, social and educational success.</p>
<p>phaese: point made, and comically, at that.</p>
<p>supindy: you're incredibly immature. keep your mouth shut for a while and learn from people who are wiser than you - albeit, due to the overwhelming number of people who likely fit that description, i implore you, be selective.</p>
<p>no, i can't settle for anything less than an elite school. i appreciate everyone's advice, some of you are just like some people i know, doubters. i will prove you all wrong, i CAN and i WILL. JUST WATCH ME.</p>
<p>Annika, thanks for your kind advice. I realize that ivy schools are out of question for me now and its not even worth worrying about, thus i removed them from my list. my major is biochem and i love it and have no intention of switching it. i guess i will have to take some drastic academic help as you said through tutors and counselors...i won't let high school repeat itself.</p>
<p>Can i retake some classes i did this semester over the summer? would that help?</p>
<p>You need to check with your school for their policy on taking classes over. Some schools will allow you to retake the class but will show the first time you took the class on your transcript and not include it in your GPA. Some will give you the average from the 2 times you took it. For instance my daughter's school will allow retakes of up to 18 hours of classes in which you have D or F grades - the original grade appears on the transcript with "retaken - not included in GPA" next to it. But if classes with a C or above are retaken then both the original grade and the new one are included in the GPA. </p>
<p>For most schools the original grade will appear on the transcript even if it is not included in the GPA.</p>
<p>You do need to visit with advisers and tutors to find out where you are going wrong with your studying. Going from a 2.25 to a 4.0 is quite a leap. </p>
<p>I also don't see how it can come as such a shock. My daughter usually has a pretty good idea of where her grades are before the final and knows she may not be able to change the grade, or may increase it if she does well in the final, or drop it if she bombs the final. Next time make sure you understand each teacher's grading policy, and keep track of your grades through the semester. You should not be getting any surprises at semester's end.</p>
<p>After reading some of your previous posts there is a lot of advice that I could give you but I guess it's not worth much considering I don't go to an elite school and I'm an inferior human being than those who do.</p>
<p>seriously Supingy, you really do have some psychological issues that need to be fixed. Forget college counselors you need to be going to a therapist at least once a week.</p>
<p>The world is a very large place. You are treating it like it is your own playground supindy. You will have a long road of hardship ahead of you.</p>
<p>Wow, after that user posted all those past posts of yours, I think you need a serious attitude adjustment. You screwed up miserably in HS and now you're screwing up miserably in college, and your whole goal in life is to transfer to an elite college because that is the only way you feel you can validate yourself as a human being. That's pathetic. If you can't do well in basic intro courses at a lower-tier school, how exactly do you plan to get a 4.0 GPA in more advanced classes? Why would an elite school want someone who screwed up HS and College and doesn't even take responsibility for it, by saying she's SO shocked at her mediocre GPA, like whoops, I got a 2.2, how on earth did that happen?!
You are setting yourself up for misery, and you need a reality check. Your worth isn't measured by going to an elite school. I encourage you to study hard and do well, and who knows, maybe if you apply yourself you can get the 4.0 you've wanted - but if you're going to measure your worth in life by college rankings...you need to seriously get over it.
Also, ask yourself why you're doing so poorly...studying habits? partying? spending too much time on EC's?</p>
<p>I totally agree with star. And supindy, i love how you have skirted around the genuine questions of those of us wondering how this could have happened so that we can help you. Instead youre focusing on the 'doubters' but youre really not in a position to do an upward trend (get 4.0s from here on out) if you don't address issues that are clearly present. Is this even real? How is it possible to get that bad of a gpa and then not be willing to explain it to people here who care. If this is in fact real, I think you still have a lot of maturing to do and good luck.</p>
<p>ok ok ok ok fellers, i never thought i would be the one to say this, but i think our collective point has been made</p>
<p>and here i go to pile on, but as a last note, if youre not able to do well at your current school, you have to honestly ask yourself whether, in the event you did get into one of the schools that you mentioned, how you would fare academically</p>
<p>"i wanted to prove people who thought i was not as capable wrong, but i guess im wrong. "</p>
<p>Dude, you'll only start succeeding when you stop giving a crap about what other people think. If the only reason you want to transfer to an "elite" school is to show off, then you're not going to make it. Nobody really gives a damn about what everyone else does...Do it for yourself, not other people.</p>