<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I'm a high school junior, and my grades freshmen and soph year were not too great. I think I had a 2.8 gpa both years. But this year, I plan on getting all As and Bs. Lets say I finish this year with a gpa (from this year only) of 3.3. Please chance me on the following schools.</p>
<p>Penn State
Lebanon Valley College
Michigan
Monmouth University
Rutgers
West Virginia
Syracuse
Bowling Green</p>
<p>PLEASE PLEASE reply to this thread.</p>
<p>Penn State - unlikely (unless you get really good SAT’s)
Lebanon Valley College - never heard of it
Michigan - practically impossible
Monmouth - Match
Rutgers - possible (wanna get good SAT’s to confirm)
West Virginia - Match
Syracuse - reach (would need SAT’s to balance your low gpa)
Bowling Green - no idea</p>
<p>Really hard to give you chance based upon the information you gave.</p>
<p>For planning purposes, I would use your current GPA and your PSAT scores to give you an idea of what general class of colleges to apply to. </p>
<p>I would construct a resumee of your last three years. Do you have special talents? Are you an award winning athlete? Have you starred in any art activities ie student play. Are you part of a minority group?</p>
<p>Once you assemble your resumee, look around your school/town to see how you can quickly buff it up. what you want is something that shows leadership or special talents at minimum time committment. (ie running a special olympic weekend. Tutoring disadvantaged elementry or middle school students (2-3 hours per week). etc.</p>
<p>I would than prepare for the SAT or ACT. If possible enroll in the a organized review (ie princeton or kaplan). If this is too expensive, then got to the online exam site and look for their own review course (in the case of the SAT it is at the College Board website and costs about 90 dollars). These sites have practice questions and exams. Begin preparing about 10-12 weeks before the exam and be sure to do several practice exams in an exam setting (continuously over the 3-4 hours it takes to do the real exam). </p>
<p>You can improve your scores without learning any more than you know now by (1) getting use to the length of the exam by doing practice exams and (2) getting the hang of how they ask the questions.</p>
<p>Finally, one of life’s lessons is that you have to take care of your affairs as they occur and not at the last moment. No matter what you do you will be unable to erase your performance in Freshman and Sophmore year and looking back you probably should have thought about college beginning on day 1 Freshman year. </p>
<p>That said, you are young and with hard work you can overcome just about anything. So get good grades junior year, do the best you can on the boards. </p>
<p>Develope a back up plan in case you don’t get into the school you want the first time (ie get into the best school you can and then transfer to a school on your list after freshman year).</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Are you referring to Michigan State or U of Michigan? Because if it’s U of Michigan, then it’s not happening, but Michigan State is a definite possibility. Are you instate?</p>
<p>Not desperate enough (or at all). Come back next year.</p>