<p>I agree with aspire and dumbitdown. I’ve seen some thoughtless posts, but this thread is unbelievable. Here, an honestly distraught student is looking for some advice on an important issue and all he receives from HHSFTW is a bunch of downright nasty bulls***. With that attitude HSSFTW, I hope you enjoy going nowhere in life.</p>
<p>Take a summer class or 2 at your local community college, get at least a B. This will show adcoms that you started taking your education more seriously. Bring up grades as much as you cn from this point on through end of 12 grade.</p>
<p>Start with your hs guidance counselor.
They should help you out with logical and practical solutions to your special needs.</p>
<p>Some of you guys make Regina George look like a da** saint… yeesh.</p>
<p>My brother was unable to get into the college of his choice for an engineering major upon graduation. He went to the local community college for one year, pulled a 4.0 and tranferred to the college he originally wanted. He then took 4 more years to finish, but everything worked out ok.</p>
<p>Do NOT give up on high school. That is terrible advice. Graduate as strong as you can. Apply to some state schools/small privates. If you don’t get in, then go to community college for a year or two, get a 3.0-4.0 and transfer. Once you have your BA degree, no one will care how you did in high school or the fact that you went to community college.</p>
<p>im a tell you from experience cause your in the same position as me when i was in HS, i failed my foreign languages aswell and it destroyed my gpa, ok you got a 1.8 its your junior year, this is basically your last year you cant really do anything else about that 1.8 honestly but you can probably increase it to 1.9 or 2.0 depending on how you finish out this year, your senior year isnt going to count but i would advise you to get atleast a 3.0 in your last year of HS even though it doesnt mean much but do it anyway cause im a give you advice to just go to community college after you graduated unless you see some schools that will accept you but those schools who do accept 1.0’s are bad schools, just stay in hs finish out jr year as strong as you can, aim for a 3.0 in your senior year then after senior year enroll at your local community college aim no lower then 3.5 but try for a 3.7 it will help alot stay there for hmmm… maybe 2 semesters or whenever you can transfer out usually 30 credits, most of the time if you have 30 credits they wont look at your HS transcript or SAT at all, i start to take community classes now unless you think you can handle but summer classes at CC are generally fast pace and harder to keep up with since its only 6 weeks, its alot of cramming and to me its pointless cause your going to end up there after HS anyway but if u want you can get maybe 1 class out the way to hurry up and transfer.</p>
<p>i dont think you can get into rutgers but you can try though heres a link to there stats
Rutgers:
<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board;
<p>NJIT:
<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board;
<p>btw community colleges accept everyone</p>
<p>Listen to all the good advice up there ^</p>
<p>Look, grades do not equal life success. Let me say it again grades =/= success</p>
<p>To be realistic, you aren’t going to suddenly pull straight A’s. Try to get good grades from now on. Go to community college. (they accept everyone unless you’ve committed murder) You’re not going to be shunned from society. I know a smart Asian girl who couldn’t afford tuition at her state college so she’s now going to a community college for neurology or something.
At community college, you can make a whole new start. This counts for jobs and money so it’s important. Always set a high goal. You’ll probably need a ~3.5ish to transfer. Some community colleges (at least near me) offer a program where you spend 2 years at CC and 2 years at a state college.</p>
<p>colleges like upward patterns of grades. kick butt this year. do college interviews. send letters explaining you were a silly freshman.</p>
<p>I’ve worked in a college admissions office, and we work extraordinarily hard to get in kids with promise… without necessarily the promising grade point average. One kid kept coming back to us for interviews and meetings, and he was rejected…and then I saw him in the fall when he joined the freshman class. Don’t ever give up; that’s the stupidest advice ever. You are not a quitter. Having a 1.8 and dropping out looks far, far worse than graduating with a 1.8 and actually finishing your high school education. But you’re not going to graduate with a 1.8, right? RIGHT.</p>
<p>Get studying kid. I have faith in you; prove them crazy ppl wrong :)</p>
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<p>Rutgers and NJIT? Are you serious? Let me make this clear: no reputable state school in New Jersey - not even Montclair State or William Patterson - will take a 1.8 GPA, unless your SAT score is stellar (and I mean 2000+), which, judging by your PSAT score is not likely.</p>
<p>Get real. Really think about why you’re screwed up this bad - fix it. Aim to be, at minimum, a decent student. If you do well in community college (I’m talking 3.0 + GPA), then you have a fair shot at transferring to Rutgers/NJIT. For CS, you won’t be too far behind - Bergen has a great CC with lots of course offerings.</p>