<p>Vrisha…Congratulations on persevering and getting your acceptance into UTSA!! <:-P You’ve accomplished the first step towards overcoming your past mistakes and making a solid future for yourself. You should be proud!!</p>
<p>I’m curious what major you’re planning on pursuing at UTSA? I see they have a Modern Languages major which might dovetail nicely with your passion for languages and could open up a lot of avenues for you down the road in government or international business arenas.</p>
<p>You wouldn’t have gotten a full scholarship to the Ivies unless you are low income. The Ivies only give need based scholarships. Congratulations on your acceptance. </p>
<p>Ivies? The OP is attending UTSA.</p>
<p>@"Erin’s Dad" Initially, the OP’s parents wanted s/he to go to the Ivy League and get a full scholarship. That would’ve never happened any way, so the OP should feel very good about getting into UTSA</p>
<p>Everything in your life is your own fault.</p>
<p>Your parents worked 3x harder than you did growing up and they didn’t complain.</p>
<p>You can and will get kicked out of the house, and you deserve it.</p>
<p>Your couldn’t put the pieces together early enough to realize what the hell you doing to future.</p>
<p>You lied to your parents about your grades and now they definitely will blow up on you.</p>
<p>Don’t come to a forum expecting pity. There are people in the world still experiencing slavery. There are blind and deaf students who still want a college education. There are disabled people who get laughed at everyday who still work hard to be successful.</p>
<p>I don’t want to hear about ADHD. Take some medicine if you have to. Don’t wallow in misery because you’re too indecisive to take medicine but too lazy to try hard in school.</p>
<p>Pathetic.</p>
<p>@zzzboy OP got into USTA. Hopefully he’ll fix his life.
OP obviously messed up his life, I never let myself feel self-pity for myself simply for the reasons you gave (and more along those lines) or contemplate things like suicide even if I regret some of my actions.
hopefully OP can turn things around and make use of the resources he’s been blessed with. sounds like he’s taken the first step. </p>
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<p>If your parents don’t support your applying to realistic schools, then a gap year will be the default whether they “let” you or not.</p>
<p>Have u considered the military? After successfuly completing a stint, you will be able to demonstrate to colleges that you are mature & focused. </p>
<p>It could be a “RESTART” button for your life </p>
<p>again OP has got into USTA and will be going there. </p>
<p>*UTSA</p>
<p>A 2000 SAT is actually amazing. You must realize that. My valedictorian got a 1540 when she took it!!! DO YOU HEAR ME! Obviously you care about your future and can accomplish great things. I get it you were lazy but you’ve obviously snapped into the realization that you can do so much with your life. Go to community college, get a good GPA and transfer to a 4 year. Just by your SAT I can tell you are smart and motivated and all you’ve got to do is try. Contact your guidance counselor and ask for options. They’re for guidance and you need it. Good luck!</p>
<p>And getting into an ivy league is not all that life’s about! Screw your parents. I’ve been told all my life I was smart and I’m probably never going to go to an ivy league, I’ve accepted that. I will still make the most of my life and you should too.</p>
<p>Wow and I’m half white half black as well!!! Cooooool</p>
<p>WOOWW YOU’RE IN COLLEGE NOW GO YOUUUUUUUU!! I’m so late but congrats :::DDDD</p>
<p>@vrisha - well done to you. I’ve come late to this thread of yours. But wanted to say that I think you were severely undervaluing yourself, as your (unusual) talent with languages alone can take you far, and lead to a far more interesting career than most will ever have the luck to enjoy. The fact you took it upon yourself and in your own time too to learn these languages to such a level of fluency, and in such a short time, shows that the cast that you’re molded from is, just, well, rather DIFFERENT from the norm. As is the case with many people with unusual talents. How well or poorly you did in high school is in no way a solid indicator of how you will do in college. You didn’t do well in high school, and yet at the same time you were notching up some major accomplishments. Ha, reminds me that I hated high school, was far more interested in other things (including languages, which I too took time to teach myself, though I did not have anywhere near your talent). I didn’t finish high school, took the GED test (very high percentile score, but that doesn’t mean much with the GED!), and wandered for a year or so. Then I started taking some college courses and I did brilliantly - I remember vividly in my first semester of college my ‘Shakespeare’ class professor reading to the class my essay on one of the sonnets, saying it was the best essay a student of his had ever produced. And I was a close-to-failing high school drop out. </p>
<p>What you have to do now is to keep up with learning the languages (and the writing of course), and start investigating (and your university is a good place to start with this) how you can make your languages and writing talents work (literally) for you. There’s the diplomatic corp, or international aid agencies (work/travel abroad - does that appeal to you?) to look into for instance. The military as has been mentioned (I have a close relative who was a languages expert with military intelligence - studied at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, a pretty cool area to be paid to spend a few years!). Then there’s interpreter and/or translator work to consider - I had a German friend who worked at the UN HQ in New York as an interpretor. She married a German diplomat, but even when they were posted abroad she was able to get lucrative one-off jobs back at the UN HQ. There are just soooo many interesting roads open to you as ‘a multi-lingual’. And I’m sure you can fit the writing in somewhere too. Funny, but you the ‘failing’ high school student have the potential to end up having a far more interesting and fulfilling life than most of the 2300 SAT/high GPA students whose ‘tales of woe’ on the CC forum were bringing you down!!</p>
<p>Bonne chance! </p>