<p>Regardless of his success or the state of the economy, if resorting to belittling the prestige of becoming president of the US or the Harvard Law Review is all you can muster up against experimenting with drugs then you’ve got a very pathetic argument.</p>
<p>Any honorable man who served as President would not be afraid to release his grades from school regardless of whether or not he had a 2.0 or 4.0 grade point average.</p>
<p>Even Bush knew this.</p>
<p>So that people like you could pick over his transcripts and then declare them to be fakes?</p>
<p>very much so. I thought it was going to be a combination of what you see in the movies with the parties and somehow getting the insane amounts of work done. but depending upon what school, it could be just insane amounts of work (aka mine) or just partying all day everyday</p>
<p>I honestly think that the partying is highly exaggerated in the movies. Sure, you’ll always have that minority that parties hard all the damn time, but for the most, most students are probably only partying a few times a month on the weekends, if even. And then there are a sizable amount of students who never party, yet still manage to make a circle of friends and get a bf/gf.</p>
<p>^
agreed completely</p>
<p>Well for me, I have loved college, sure it hasn’t been perfect but I have loved it. I attend a tier 4 university in the same town I went to high school in but here are the reasons I like college more than high school.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I went to a small high school which hand picked students from the district I was in. Most people already knew their friends from middle school and I had recently arrived in the south from the northeast so I did not really know many people. My freshman year I usually sat a lunch table by myself and rarely had any friends. My grades were not the best due to environment factors and things going on in my life, I had a 3.2 when I was applying for colleges and I graduated with a 3.6, during my freshman and sophomore year I was a B student, junior and senior year I was an A student.</p></li>
<li><p>Feels good to have a fresh start, I have a 3.9 GPA in college, and it I no longer have to worry about being a B student not being good enough.</p></li>
<li><p>The people in college are so much more open and a lot nicer, in high school I met some great people but majority were ready to call you out in front of everyone. Also the high school I went to was not that diverse, I was probably the only Indian there.</p></li>
<li><p>I had two girlfriends already in college, didn’t have any in high school.</p></li>
<li><p>In high school I was the nerdy kid who really had a hard time getting along with some of the more louder and arrogant kids. People always made generalizations about me and in many cases I would feel left out in a lot of activities. </p></li>
<li><p>The high school I went to, teachers babied some of the students. I know in some classes we had the dumbest discussions and in some classes we did the dumbest things, I didn’t learn much. </p></li>
<li><p>The stupid drama got louder my senior year and many people some times just decided to take their anger out on me because I was the quiet kid who never bothered anyone, I was expected to stay that way. The quiet Asian kid in a mostly Black and White school.</p></li>
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<p>In college, I don’t have to deal with that stuff, I can go to the library and study there, I have a flexible schedule, I have a lot more friends, people are a lot nicer, I LEARN stuff, I actually love doing my work and I just love the overall experience. Starting off with a clean slate.</p>
<p>Also: Accepted into UGA, Georgia Tech, UMD: College Park, and UConn as a transfer, waiting to hear from some other schools. I will be spending my final two years elsewhere.</p>
<p>“But that doesn’t even matter, he still got into Harvard Law with a 2.0-3.3 GPA.”</p>
<p>Wasn’t he also a community organizer in Chicago before he went off to Harvard Law?</p>
<p>I am hoping to pull a Obama in the college transfer process, tier 4 to Columbia (I applied there)?</p>
<p>Is Occidental really a tier 4? Do tiers even really matter. Jeez.</p>