<p>I just joined this forum and everyone seems to be great AP students. My freshman and sophomore year I was c-d student with the average of 2.3 GPA. But somehow my junior year I got a cumulative 3.8. I guess I got my act together but now, going into senior year my average GPA won't be higher than a 3.0. Also everyone plans to go to like UCLA or Yale, these high class colleges... My plan is to go to community college. It's not like I don't care about my future I just never was taught to work hard in school. My Career plan is to be a pediatric aprn, focusing on the ER. Anyway, is there any average students on here like me?</p>
<p>Don’t be ridiculous. Everybody here had a 4.0 gpa with a 2400 on the sat and dreams of Harvard!</p>
<p>But really, there are a variety of people from many different backgrounds with many different plans. Don’t be discouraged by the over-achievers</p>
<p>most (but not all) people on this website are aiming high, because that’s who this website is geared towards: very ambitious people with ambitious plans</p>
<p>Lol. One of these threads gets posted at least every other week, or so it seems. I wouldn’t say I’m “average” (although by “CC standards” I am), but I’m nowhere near perfect academically. Many of the colleges I like are good by most people’s standards but for CCers would probably be like last resort colleges. No ivys for me.</p>
<p>This place is much better during the school year when it’s not just a bunch of “IS MY SCHEDULE GOOD ENOUGH PLZ?” or “WILL IVYS STILL ACCEPT ME???” and there are more actual discussions.</p>
<p>Floridagirl, we have much in common in our pasts. My mom always told me that I didn’t have to do homework if I didn’t feel like it. I did it anyway in elementary school because I liked it, but I basically stopped doing work in middle school because I thought it was all BS. I failed a quarter of 6th grade social studies and ended up with a D in the class. I got Cs in math every year even though it was my best subject and I had been taking classes up a grade level with the older kids since 2nd grade. I didn’t do the <em>required</em> science fair or oral history projects in 8th grade (which caused me to be placed into honors instead of GT bio in 9th grade, which they quickly realized was a mistake).
In freshman year, I had a 2.85 and my two As we’re band and gym. I started to get my act together when I realized it was important, so I got a 3.6 sophomore year, followed by a 3.85 and 4.0. I think it’s safe to say I’m far from a perfect student!
Also, wanting to go to a top school means nothing if you don’t get into them and actually going to a top school means nothing if you don’t take advantage of the opportunities presented to you. You have a career plan and a desire to grow, which gives you an advantage over many (not saying all, so please don’t be offended, fellow CCers) of the kids on here with 4.0s and 2200s.
If you’re choosing community college because you want to save money or there’s a program that suits you or you just don’t want to be at a university, that’s fine (I have a bunch of friends doing that). However, if you’re choosing community college because you don’t think you can get into other colleges, I think you should definitely at least try because you’re a better student than you realize!</p>
<p>Don’t let the kids on here get to you. If that’s your plan, then good for you! I hope you’re very successful. Not everyone’s goals are the same. Good for you for knowing what you want to do!</p>
<p>Um… I don’t think d’s and c’s = average student :\ no offence, but I for one am no perfect student. I am naturally smarter then the average bear (I dont have to try real hard to make a 92 in a class), but I was a complete slacker and an overall rude student in middle school (im in 10th currently). My parents never pushed me to do well in school, but I really pushed myself in 9th grade (and in 1 course in 8th grade). I did get straight A’s last year with an AP (as a freshy) but that doesnt make me perfect…</p>
<p>Also, I would shoot for something a little higher then just community college (or a high-end community college) and really pick it up. ALSO, DONT BECOME A NURSE. there are soooo many nurses, and so many you’ll be competing with. Become a pediatrics physicians assistant, its basically above a nurse but still below a doctor (in power and in pay). </p>
<p>And there are plenty of d, c and b students here. </p>
<p>Its up to you to be a better student, just like it was up to most (if not all) of us. We could have all procrastinated or not studied, but when we chose to, we got good grades.</p>
<p>I seriously think people who dont get good grades most of the time just arent putting enough effort in (unless they are genuinely not the brightest),every single kid I know that doesnt get A’s/ high B’s either isnt trying enough or has a learning disability.</p>
<p>To be honest, I’m not a perfect student. I would consider myself as a B+ or A- student. I’d say more of an A- student.</p>
<p>I’ve never been “perfect”. All or most of my friends are very intellectual individuals that do homework in class (I don’t like to do homework in class, when it’s supposed to be called “HOMEwork”), know how to play an instrument or sport very well, are very tidy and organized, and get an A+ on all classes. I’m not distinguished very well with them.</p>
<p>My parents never really pushed me to do well in school. Mainly because I’m going to be a first-generation college student in my family, so my parents don’t know much on how school works and how to get into a good college. </p>
<p>So if you think you’re alone, you’re not. I just stumbled across this website when researching colleges, even though I’m not Ivy League material.</p>
<p>The average high school GPA nationwide was 2.68 in 1990 and 3.0 in 2009. The study that found that said it’s partially because students are taking harder classes and GPA has become more important for college admissions, but it’s also partially due to grade inflation. </p>
<p>Also, though I would agree that many students with less-than-perfect grades are smart slackers, they are definitely the minority when compared to the kids who really are just average or below average. People on CC don’t realize that there are entire counties where nobody gets a 4.0 and the graduation rate is less than 50%. Those kids who dont graduate, as well as the thousands of high-schoolers who are illiterate, are not just slackers. Even at my (very good) school, I took a Spanish I class in 9th grade and the average grade was a D! And the majority of the class was juniors or seniors who were repeating the course because passing it is a graduation requirement.</p>
<p>I’m not a c/d student anymore. I’m a more of an A/B actually. I changed my grades completely around.</p>
<p>Are you implying that I’m not ambitious? Because I am. I’ll be the first in my family to go college, it’s extremely hard when you were never brought up to be successful.</p>
<p>^I’m guessing that’s referring to my comment?</p>
<p>I’m sorry if I offended you, I didn’t mean to imply that you’re not ambitious. you obviously have your goals straight and know what you’re doing 
I was just trying to say that CC is for the most part aimed towards people who want to go to colleges like the ivy league. I guess I shouldn’t have worded it like I did since there are people who don’t want to go to those schools who are still ambitious.</p>
<p>Someone asks this like every other week. “I’m not a perfect student why is everyone else blah blah,” there should just be a repository of people who make threads like this so that you can all become acquainted with each other.</p>
<p>I’m going to an average state school, so yeah, I’m not a perfect student either. But this is a forum where people ask how they can get into the best colleges, so obviously a lot of the posters will be nervous, finicky, overworked students and their (EXTREMELY annoying) helicopter parents that post here.</p>
<p>@Floridagirl
Ditto.
I’ll be the first out of all of my siblings and cousins (i.e. “this generation”) to go to college. My brother and my cousin both went for a semester at a community college and then dropped out because they never really cared. I’m a “mostly A, occasional B” student. I pretty much have to figure out everything on my own. It’s harder than people think. I didn’t even know what the common app was until a few weeks ago–never even heard of it until I came here. My mom and aunt are also convinced I can get into Cornell with my 1700 SAT scores.</p>
<p>This website makes you feel stupid, and half the time, the people here don’t even <em>realize</em> they’re making you feel stupid or insulting you. You get used to it and learn to ignore it. 
Just focus on your goals and don’t worry about other people’s stats, because there are people with less than stellar grades here and this website is very useful even for the more “average” student.</p>
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exactly, there needs to be some “think before you post” going on here.
A lot of people here, are sorta blunt when the post so it comes off as condescending.</p>
<p>I’m not perfect, but I get good grades, and I’m not “ivy bound” or anything, but it’s too soon for me to be thinking about all that anyway. Just focus on your school grades, not what some of the people here are doing. Cause sometimes I go here, and see threads that go “If I take (x) AP’s sophmore year, and then do this many EC’s. am I an Ivy-Shoe in.?”</p>
<p>I’m also a first generation college student but that doesnt really mean anything. Just because my parents didnt go to college didnt mean they werent ambitious 
. Most kids that come from countries outside of europe and US/canada have parents who dont have a great education (or any at all) and yet they are still striving to get into great schools all around the world. And going to college isnt really ambitious :\ , unless you had a really hard start (had trouble staying in school) and/or theres no way you can afford it (but if your low class financial aid is great, and if you have other reasons, many community colleges/instate colleges are <10k and you can get most of that in loans). Like 70% of students go to college right after graduating highschool (another 10-15 go in the next few years), and this is averaging lower/middle/upper class kids in the US. My brother with a 2.0 GPA got into a private college (with no SATs or anything) and my sister with a high 2.0/really low 3.0 weighted got into every college she applied to.</p>
<p>I’d be hesitant to call anyone a ‘perfect student’. Some kids try hard, I mean really hard. Some kids coast by on a natural ‘ability’.
I’ve never coasted-- didn’t qualify for our honors-gifted program (based off IQ not grades) I just try hard.
But when you see people with amazing SATs and GPAs do look at that as encouragement.
Real people have to ability to do it so if you try you have a shot too.
With that said the fact that you aren’t the perfect student doesn’t mean you couldn’t be or that your any less of a person
So you have a year of high school left to improve your GPA and then college to do well at. Go ahead and try. Just cos you werent amazing in 9 and 10th grades doesn’t mean you can’t be.</p>
<p>Let me just say sorry about my post, some of the things here should be rethought before posting (I’m talking about what I was commenting on on my previous post) . No one here is calling any one else anything. No ones perfect, no one here is dumb, or a genius or anything. We all have to try no matter what (some more than others) to reach the goals we’ve set for ourselves.</p>
<p>Don’t envy someone just because they get top grades or mistake that for “perfect student.” I got the grades and test scores but skipped frequently, was often in detention, absolutely hated school, have no social life etc. Are you happy where you’re at and where you’re going? Then a year ago I’d have traded places with you in a second. Even now I might. I mean, the weather is so much nicer there and you have a career goal.</p>
<p>there’s only one perfect student, and you’re not it</p>