<p>love cali- all about So Cal like laguna, newport, and the greater l.a. area....
i hate suburban areas too (grew up in them all my life) but i am just in love w/ the california lifestyle + you cant go wrong w/ the beach. i hope to go to school in either cali or nyc... how far are you from the beach? </p>
<p>haha party schools- i have my theory about those.... just make sure to keep yourself on track and you'll be just fine ;)</p>
<p>around 30-40min drive to santa monica. i live about 35-45 miles east of it i think.</p>
<p>awesome...
yeah everytime i go to cali i stay in santa monica but my true love is newport (wow ive said cali + love a lot haha)... hows ur senior year goin?</p>
<p>survived first week :p</p>
<p>i am taking the following courses:</p>
<p>trig
lit 4
econ
physics
chem
ap comp science</p>
<p>well i guess i can boast i did all of my homework so far :P</p>
<p>congrats! ohhhh sixxxx rocks. </p>
<p>ieshh physics and chem? did that in 10th grade. aka why my grades suck. on happier notes- whats lit 4? ap comp sci, always wanted to try it never got to it :(</p>
<p>lit 4 is standard senior english</p>
<p>oh cool....</p>
<p>wait
vehement, do you go to west covina high?</p>
<p>Whose to say I'm not a potential scholar? Because I waste time ranting on messageboards? I feel discriminated against.</p>
<p>blue mouse. i don't. why? are you there?!</p>
<p>Oops. Wrong thread. Meant to post this one on the other one...</p>
<p>i live relatively close to west co..</p>
<p>hahahahahahahaah</p>
<p>ps- i don't think you're in any way, shape, or form anti-american.
good luck!</p>
<p>Go to one of the dozens of not-bad schools that will give you a nearly-full ride and a fast-track into their honors program based purely on your SATs. Work really hard. Take the hardest classes available - hopefully, the challenge will interest you and you won't slack off. Transfer to a better school after a year or two with your 4.0 college GPA.</p>
<p>The people who act like anything below a 3.5 HS GPA means community college are idiots. 80-90% of America's four year colleges would gladly take you.</p>
<p>Vehement how exactly did you study for the SAT?</p>
<p>I without a doubt agree with what pyroclastic said...and I also CLEARLY see where you are coming from vehement..you are intelligent and grades are only meant to show off intelligence..just realize that in the real world when you get into whatever first college you go to, try hard there so you can transfer to a better college. Again, everything pyroclastic said I'd second.</p>
<p>People on this forum forget that a C (2.0) is average. Congratulations, your ABOVE average!!</p>
<p>Since when is a C (2.0) average? Maybe at the college level for extremely cut-throat engineering courses, but not at the high school level. If that were true then half of every class would get failing grades. To speak in the proper context, the average for college applicants is more like a B (3.0), and the average for a College Confidential forum member, from the posts I've read, is an A- (3.7).</p>
<p>I meant that a C has always been descibed as the mean for hs students, with a B being above average and an A being superior (basics). This is all-inclusive; not just those who wish to attend college.</p>
<p>The "average" 2.0 is a legacy of the time when only the well-above-average went to college. </p>
<pre><code> The fundamental story of American education of the last 30 years (or at least of higher education - integration and re-segregation is a topic for another rant) has been one of inflation - not only the bad kind. Weak students go to CC instead of no college at all, mediocre kids go to so-so four-year state schools instead of CC, the above-average go to good states or lower level privates instead of regular states, and so on and so forth until you have the merely extremely talented joining the amazingly talented to crowd the gates of the Ivies. It sounds cynical but it's brought many good things - virtually every school has become stronger in the general rush to the top. The related symptoms of this phenomenon mean that the "average" grade at high schools is now well above a 2.0.
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