<p>Please excuse the Minor spelling errors, and grammatical problems. I'm sending this on my phone.</p>
<p>I'm really smart, I can do many things that a lot of people can't figure out, I never use pencil and paper and I can read faster then most people in my class and retain information. I live in Texas and have scored perfect, if not, a little less then on my state tests every year. </p>
<p>The problem its I didn't see the point in passing the first time when I could take the class online in a week at longest and still get the credit, so my gpa is sitting a little under a two on the four point scale.</p>
<p>I want to be a lawyer, or a shrink. But I don't have the grades, I moved a few months ago and i'm making straight a's now, my mentality has changed. </p>
<p>I know i'm smart enough to get where I want to, but I've made some bad decisions, do what can I do?</p>
<p>When you have time see if you can find an old movie called “The Paper Chase.”
One of the main characters is a law student who has your super powers mentioned above.</p>
<p>I’m a senior in highschool. Five Weeks remaining until graduation that’s why I claimed that it was too late for me to do anything to fix my grades here.</p>
<p>Going to community college and continuing to work hard in your classes is an excellent plan! </p>
<p>My husband was a lot like you. He didn’t care about high school and ended up with a terrible GPA. He barely graduated, in fact. He took a few years off from school, worked some menial jobs, and finally decided he didn’t want that lifestyle. He ended up going to community college for a few years where he worked his butt off to ensure he had a strong GPA. He then transferred to UCSD and earned a BS in Physics. After that, he went on to earn his MS in Physics and is now regarded as an expert in his field. </p>
<p>If he can do it, you can too! Just keep your nose to the grindstone and earn as many of those A’s as you possibly can from here on out.</p>
<p>That doesn’t make any sense. My parental advice is to slap the person who told you that. Once you’ve got a college record, high school no longer matters. Law schools will be looking at your LSAT and what you’ve done in college. You’re on the right track now - keep working hard and stop worrying! :)</p>
<p>Who told you that high school grades are weighed more than college performance in law school admissions?! Ridiculous. Maybe if you are transferring, high school grades matter significantly more. But for law school, I think not.</p>
<p>What am I thanking you for? I am thanking you for going completely off-topic, to create your own statement which would be against the forum rules. I guess in my own way i could be a jerk, but the statement i posted was not to insult somebody. It was to point out that there are certain tasks that some people’s brain just can’t handle without a handicap of some sort.</p>
<p>Thanks, I will try to keep that in mind. It’s something that i’ve always wanted to do. It is just now hitting me that everything that i’ve done has kind-of lead up to a challenge.</p>