<p>I had a less than stellar freshman year, but I made all As during my sophomore year to recover the damage. Did you honestly try harder during sophomore year? You didn't seem to improve that much grade point wise.</p>
<p>105, about average. I thought I knew pokemon really well lol.</p>
<p>I like how Pokemon mania basically hijacked this thread >_></p>
<p>Sorry, OP!</p>
<p>lol 55. and i haven't played those games for at least 6 years. I have a decent memory haha</p>
<p>wow i didnt know that this thread would be so popular. what do you mean by tier 2 colleges?</p>
<p>Gotta catch em all!!! I love bobosour (sp) ...</p>
<p>cough* back to the topic at hand... Dont look at your grades as something to cry about, just get your ass back in the game and fight for higher grades and let the peices fall where they may.</p>
<p>@ OP: never mind. actually since colleges look for improvement, which you display, you have a good chance at all</p>
<p>It doesn't matter what college you get into. Just as long as your doing what you love and your dedicated to it. Many geniuses are rebels that failed in college, you can still be succesful in a small college instead of the big Ivy league schools. It all depends on what YOU do with YOUR life. If you laze around, sulking about you sad life and how you didn't get into a good university than of course your life will be s**t. Einstein graduated college in the bottom of his class with no honors. (He was a rebel, he didn't like the lectures, therefore he didn't feel the need to attend any of them.) Steven Spielberg trudged his way out of high school with not so good grades, and barely passed college with an average grade of C's. So don't worry about it. They're are plenty of colleges you can attend and if you still have your hopes up about attending an Ivy league. - You should go to a small college that will accept you first, (trust me, plenty of colleges will accept you) get EXCELLENT grades at your college, perhaps conduct a breakthrough experiment or research project and transfer into the a more renowned college. You have plenty of time to turn you life around, just be patient, persistent, and motivated.</p>
<p>Einstein might have graduated in the bottom of his class, but he still went to one of the best math and science institutes in history.</p>
<p>prodigies are exceptions. Einstein published his ToR when he was like.. what? 18? 20-something? I mean, sure, OP, if you publish some revolutionary new research or show in some other way that you're a beast who can't be contained by the crappy school system, you're good to go. otherwise.......it'll be tough to say the least.</p>
<p>Albert Einstein was a late bloomer, his brain gradually became ingenious during his teen years.</p>
<p>Einstein was not a late bloomer. He studied university text books at an early age. He read biographies of scientists when he was really young too. He was the typical genius. Born like that, stayed like that. Except for the fact that he was a bit of a rebel and didn't think he needed to attend lectures. But, since HE IS a genius it didn't matter. He could learn all that stuff by himself. He got disinterested in a lot of subjects easily, like physics and math. I think he fell out of it in college, like he didn't enjoy math as much and he wanted to just study physics. Which resulted in his graduating bottom of his class at the university.</p>
<p>Einstein did have trouble understanding speech early on and was slow in talking; etc etc. I remember reading this somewhere but I can't really provide a link for now.</p>
<p>As for math/science areas, though, he was probably always a genius. I'd say he's one of those combinations of late/early...if that's possible.</p>
<p>can i have examples of some colleges to look at for a starting list?</p>