<p>Throughout high school (currently a senior) I was such a slacker. Freshmen year for example, the first 9 weeks I had straight A's, then I stopped trying, ended that year with a 2.4GPA. The next year I miss a week and a half of school on a vacation(I pleaded and begged my parents no) at the end of the first semester. Ended that year with a 2.8GPA. Junior year I got my act together and put my foot down and did not allow my parents to get in the way, but I still slacked off big time and ended that year with a 3.2GPA(Took AP Physics B(2), APUSH(3) and AP Lang(4)). Now, here I am in my senior year with a 2.78GPA taking:</p>
<p>Dual Eco and Govt'
AP Chemistry
AP Lit
German III Honors
AVID IV Honors
Pre-calculus Honors
Law Enforcement I</p>
<p>And currently have a ~3.9GPA after the first 9 weeks. I am trying for the first time in my life and it feels great to actually understand things and get A's, but it is too late, and it REALLY sucks. I know at this rate I will end high school with roughly a 3.0, but it just stinks I did not try this hard before. I Just wanted to vent this.
P.S. School does not have weighted GPA's, it is all UW.</p>
<p>Living your life dwelling on the past isn’t living. The only person you should be in competition with is yourself - if you are doing better now than you were when you were a Freshman, you have no reason to be disappointed. Sure, you could’ve done better a few years back, but being upset about it isn’t going to change much. You have your future ahead of you to keep pushing forward and keep trying. Plus, a 3.0 GPA isn’t terrible either, that’s a B average.</p>
<p>You learn from your mistakes. You only really fail when you get knocked down by adversity and refuse to get back up, which clearly you haven’t done. Don’t stress yourself out too much.</p>
<p>P.S. This sounds like a laundry list of cliches, but I’m giving my genuine advice. I’ve been through similar situations that I can tell you about privately if you’d like, since I know where you’re coming from in terms of bad grades and such.</p>
<p>My main goal was Purdue, but that fell out of the window freshmen year. This is what I was thinking on doing: Finishing up high school and not applying this year. Joining the Navy and doing 4 years, then apply to maybe Texas Tech or TAMU. I still would need to retake my ACT(23). I am currently 174/523, 33%. If I made it up to a 3.0 I would for sure be in the 25% range, so I would just need a 25 on my ACT for assured admissions. But for this to work I would have to ride out the year. I am just using the Navy as a filler for the time period, plus I wont have to take my parents money. How does this sound?</p>
<p>but if you wanted to go for college right after high school, you could get into a state school, and they’re usually way cheaper than private schools. i know people who had a gpa a little higher than your freshman year, but for all four years of high school, and who took all regular classes, and they got into penn state (a good state school).</p>