<p>Im really depressed right now. First 2 1/2 years of highschool I went to a school in Ohio that was ranked #1 in the state and was a feeder for ivys. Even the honors classes really smart people got B's. Everyones gpa's were therefore pretty low.
My junior year i took all honors classes, AP Chem, and Advanced Precalc (accelerated course). I did pretty good, but in the middle of my junior I moved to Florida where ive heard the education wasnt that good. Well my counselor changed ALL of my honors classes to regular classes, even from 1st semester because he said my transcript has to look like it was from this school, since the school i go to now did not offer the classes i took 1st semester. My accelerated pre calc course was also changed to honors. So i was pretty ****ed and only had 1 honors and 1 AP for 2nd semester of my junior year. I made all A's and 1 B.
The classes in this school are so much easier, with teachers basically throwing extra credit opportunities at you, resulting in many people having over 4.0 gpa's, which means my class rank plummeted.
So then i got really scared and made a senior schedule that looks like this:</p>
<p>1- AP Stats
2- AP BC Calc
3- Spanish 4
4- AP Psychology
5- English 4
6- AP Govt/ AP Econ
7- AP Physics B</p>
<p>i dont know if it is too late but it was the only thing i could have done to not make my transcript look like ****. I did good on the SAT which is top 25% for University of Florida, my 1st choice. But my gpa is extremely low, like bottom 25% of people who get accepted to UF. I am really scared now that I wont get into UF because it is one of two colleges in florida that offers my major.</p>
<p>He went to a really good hard school, made As and Bs in top classes, then moved to Florida to a worse school, the counselor changed all his honors stuff to regular and kept the deflated grades, and now he's ****ed in class rank and GPA.</p>
<p>Went to an extremely competitive high school for freshman year with one of the best AP Calculus programs in the nation. I moved to a school about 20 minutes away where people celebrate an API score of 780 in the halls. </p>
<p>They screwed me over sophmore year, they gave me all these stupid prep classes. Junior year I got some classes I wanted but I wasn't motivated anymore. My GPA is now mediocre.</p>
<p>@ Little_Duck, I go to a school where we have yet to break an API score of 700, but it doesn't mean the whole school blows (IB diploma candidate). It sucks because I live in southern California, where we have a school of about 4000, and of that 4000, there are 300 IB students in all grade levels. I agree that low standards/celebration of mediocrity blows, but overall, it's all about whether or not you want it bad enough.</p>
<p>@ op: You'll probably be fine. AP Stats and BC Calc? That smarts: I couldn't stay awake in stats last year, but the year before that, BC Calc was interesting -- I actually like that class. And Spanish? That test is so incredibly long. Whatever the outcome, good luck</p>