<p>Ok, so here's the deal. I'm not as over achieving as a lot of the people on this board. I don't have "bad grades" aka 3.5 gpa. I'm not the model student. I actually have bad grades. It's my senior year and at this point my cum. gpa is about a 2.5. </p>
<pre><code> Now, that said, I do have something to say for myself. I started my Freshman year in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina and basically had my freshman year washed away. My academic skills never really quite recovered from the storm until recently. My school in New Orleans was 35th in the country and when I returned I found myself inundated with AP course loads and rigorous work that, after all that trauma, I didn't even seem to have the attention span deal with.
Over the summer my mom got a new job in Missouri and moved me and my younger deaf sister here with her. My new high school is not nationally ranked and only offers one AP course I haven't already taken. To make a long story short my first semester grades for senior year are starting to look like all A's but I don't know if colleges will even care so much. Sure my past grades have the history to go along with them but I don't even know where to begin with the complications of switching schools your senior year.
So hopefully with good grades my gpa will come out as at least a 2.8 or a 3.0, my SAT scores at of right now are a 690 Verbal, 450 Math, and 620 Writing. I know the math's bad and I just retook the SAT and will have my new scores in soon, but frankly I'm not expecting anything over 500.
The schools I want to apply to are: Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of Illinois Chicago, and Pace University. Tulane and Pace are kind of "dream" options though.
So to everyone who thought their 3.0's and 4.0's were bad, how's this for bleak?
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