<p>Hi, So I did INCREASINGLY bad all throughout high school, and I'm halfway through Junior Year.
Freshmen GPA:3.0 I'm not sure how this works but (83 avg)
Sophomore GPA :2.1 (74 avg)
Junior 1st Semester: 2.6 (78 avg)
I haven't done any extracurricular activities whatsoever, I wanted to become a Musician and I thought school was a waste of time (I know; stupid me) so I didn't try.
It was only 3 days ago, where I reevaluated my life, If I were to do 100 hours of community service, maintain a 4.0 GPA and get into AP. Join as many programs and Sports I can for the rest of Junior and Senior year will I get into a good college that isn't a community college?
-if it helps Musical Composition and Piano is my talent
-Anesthesiologist is what I would like to be.</p>
<p>Also here's another question, as you can tell I don't write that well. I scored a 1700 on the PSAT, if I studied from now till June do you think I can reach 2.2k? All i've been doing is hitting the Blue Book (Collegeboard) and I have 2 tutors 1 hour a day, 2 hours on Saturdays. If there's anything else that I can do that will increase my chance of getting into a good college then please tell me :)
These are the colleges I had in mind:
Colgate University (It's a reach, i'm more than positive i'll be declined)
Ithaca College
Cornell University
Hamilton College
Lehigh University
(If there's any more good ones I don't know about that I have a chance to be in than i'd like to know. And thanks in advance.)</p>
<p>You may want to start at a community college and transfer. Or, start at a lesser-name school and transfer. </p>
<p>Community colleges have “articulation agreements” with 4-year schools. These agreements guarantee transfer into the 4-year school, and often don’t require SAT scores. Cornell has these agreements with some community colleges. Vassar has an agreemnet with Dutchess community college. Alternately, if you go to a lesser-name school then you can try to improve your grades and transfer. LaGuardia CC and BMCC have many articulation agreements. If you’re set on attending, say, Colgate, you can go to the transfer section of te Colgate site and see if they have articulation agreements with local schools. Best of luck. Don’t worry. There are many ways to get through college and many different time schedules for doing so. </p>
<p>Ivies are probably going to be out of your reach (Cornell). There’s no “magic number” of service hours that will make up for you slacking off during the majority of high school; same with SAT. Good luck–my advice is to be realistic with your college choices. If that means community college, it may have to be community college, at least to begin.</p>
<p>There is a good chance you could get into a non-community college, but probably not the ones on your list. They are reaches/high matches for people with much better stats than you. Definitely put more state schools on there and less selective ones.
Even getting a 4.0 for the rest of high school would still leave you with a GPA of 3.1 </p>
<p>There are many many many colleges that are between CC and the Ivys. There are many good colleges.
You need to find one where you will thrive. I would council you to look at schools with a lower SAT/GPA for their admitted students.</p>
<p>How about looking at schools on the CTCL list? That may be a viable option for OP.</p>
<p>I just looked, OP hasn’t logged into CC in almost 3 months…</p>
Well, I ended up scoring 92 average. It was rough. Thank you all for the help, I got into a 4 year and plan on transferring to Cornell or Columbia after 2 years of diligent work.
Just kidding, but I will apply to both and am well aware of the competition.
You aren’t going to be my anesthesiologist with those grades lol