<p>My grades in Freshmen year were horrible. I had a 3.5 GPA UW and barely a 4.0 weighted. This year (10th grade) I had a 3.4 UW and again barely a 4.0 weighted!
My current grades are :
10th Lit/Comp H: 82 (B)
AP World History: 68 ( F)
Chemistry H (P-07):85( B)
Fundmtls Web Dsgn :98 (A)
GPS Accelerated Geometry Hnrs :85 (B)
Spanish 2 H (P-06):81 (B)</p>
<p>I know my AP World grade LOOKS BAD! But she's going to enter major grades. Will be a low B/high C next week.</p>
<p>Can I have all A's by April 29th? I'm ready to work! I want to go to an Ivy League college so bad. So did I mess up the rest of my life?</p>
<p>You won’t be able to go to an Ivy League, but you can still go to a good college. And a 68 is a D. Just keeping improving and working hard to get your grades up.</p>
<p>Umm in our school a 68 is an F. We don’t have D’s. Maybe I will. I’ll tell you in 2 years</p>
<p>Ok, I do wish you luck, but with all the overly qualified kids applying to Ivy Leagues these days and most of them still get rejected your chances are slim, if at all. Ivy Leagues aren’t the end all be all, either, you have in no way messed up the rest of your life.</p>
<p>You don’t have to go to an Ivy League college to be successful/happy, remember that.</p>
<p>You messed up your first semester, not your life. Since when does going to an Ivy ensure success? Geeeeezus.</p>
<p>You still have plenty of chances. Ivy League school just don’t look at grades. There are other things that Ivy League schools look for. You still have Junior year AND Senior year to make for those mistakes.</p>
<p>Dude you are lucky that you have a 10 point scale…in our school its a 7 point scale. Btw, that F is going to hurt you badly.</p>
<p>It’s just your freshman year. Junior and senior year transcripts are what really matter. I failed a class and still got into my top school; it’s not an Ivy, but it’s a school.</p>
<p>If you work hard enough, you can have all A’s by the 29th, but that’s completely up to you.</p>
<p>Ivy leagues like to see a trend of improvement over the years. The reason why many 4.0 GPA and 2400 SAT students get rejected is because there are really too many people with the same marks. They all look the same in general. They want well rounded applicants who don’t always have their head in books, but are able to work and problem solve on their own. Aim for impressive extracurriculars and recommendation letters. Write an essay about the things you’re most passionate about. The admission committee are human you know.</p>
<p>Of course, it isn’t the end of the world if you don’t get in.</p>
<p>why do you want to go to an Ivy League so bad? Let me tell you something, once you get there it’s the same process all over again, only it’s even more grueling and competitive. If you don’t see the long line of people already ahead of you on Day 1 during orientation, the passionate and stunningly articulate people with ambitions through the roof and searing intellects, then that’s because they’re so far ahead of you couldn’t possibly see them or imagine what it would be like to be them. there is not a moment to rest. (that’s basically how i heard higher education described by one Stanford graduate). </p>
<p>of course you don’t have to see any of that until you get your first job, or maybe you’ll be lucky and never have that sort of revelation. and the school would never give that sort of introduction because they find, expectantly, that people do better kept in there own circles of obliviousness, whatever size they are. the truth is not happy.</p>
<p>No ivy leage for you! 再见！</p>
<p>Ivy League is just an athletics conference…</p>
<p>Ivy League is ridiculously overrated, don’t go for the prestige. And I might be going to one.</p>
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