<p>Greetings, everyone! This is my first time posting on this website, so please disregard any ignorance on my part if I am missing something. Anyways, this August I will start my senior year in high school, but with the unfortunate burden of a 2.9 GPA (unweighted). The problem isn't your run-of-the-mill "I was pressured to take AP classes and were too difficult"- but rather that the past few years I simply haven't given a s***. I was living under the assumption that colleges looked at your weighted GPA, which was foolish on my part; I should have researched more before sinking three years of high school grades into my record. For example, in an honors class if I was making an 85, I'd account for the .5 weight, boosting it to an A., and not worrying about getting it up. And I usually make around 85's on my courses without caring, that is, not doing any homework whatsoever, not studying or retaking tests, etc. And my past Junior year, I took two dual enrollment courses (college courses in high school), and each course contained two sub-courses, essentially giving me two high school credits a semester just for that subject. Problem is, for whatever went through my ignorant mind, I simply did not care about the courses and getting C's in them, as I would go to sleep in class, not study, whatever. So come full circle with my stream of 85's and a C or two for not caring, throw in 3 C's for the dual enrollment courses and we have ourselves a problem. A 2.9 unweighted GPA type of problem. There is no issue with me being academically challenged, for if I applied myself I can easily make A's. But now that the brick hit me in the head, it seems far too late to do anything about it, no matter how hard I want to apply myself now.</p>
<p>I have all my English and Math credits complete, whilst still needing one more Social Studies and Science credit each, as well as a Spanish credit (which I plan to take online at home). And given a block schedule of 4 classes a semester, I have 8 more slots left in my high school career. Minus 2 for Theatre each semester (Theatre is my main elective, and I enjoy it as it acting is one of my few talents; I am one of- if not the best- actor in a theatre department of 60+), I have 6 slots left for academic pursuits. What I am thinking is to retake the two dual enrollment courses (and try for A's) and if fate is in my favor, would mean 4 A's. 4 slots left. In terms of getting my Science and SS credits, I could perhaps take a dual enrollment SS class and make 2 A's, with one replacing a botched grade in the past of something. 3 slots. Take a science course and hopefully ace it. 2 slots left. I could potentially retake a few "C" classes I had in the past, and remake those.</p>
<p>I don't know, what do you guys think? I know I'm frivolously tossing around A's like it's Christmas, but this is assuming I really get my act straight this year. I want to get into a good school, something I didn't care for my Junior year (I wanted to be a professional actor, something that's not entirely impossible as I am pretty good at acting, being the only person specifically mentioned in the local newspaper on a Musical of a 60+ sized cast), but as time pressed on the idea just seemed more and more impractical, with the truth dawning on me this summer. But now I want to get into a good school, hoping it's not too late. I'd really appreciate any feedback, thanks!
-Noah</p>