<p>Continuation school, joined Marine Corps, earned 3.76 at ccc, headed to major university.</p>
<p>Yeah I never even took any sat's or whatever the others, i mean i almost didn't graduate.</p>
<p>but I got into ucsd ucsc ucd ucla and am starting at ucb next week, hs doesn't matter at all... i mean nothing will hurt you</p>
<p>"Furthermore, the wretched and testing process of transferring made working toward a 4.0 at Brown seem painless."</p>
<p>that's good to hear :)</p>
<p>congrats mellowcrazy!</p>
<p>I'm in a similar position; perhaps there's hope for me yet.</p>
<p>frrrph is my hero.</p>
<p>1.44 gpa in high school</p>
<p>enrolled in city college right afterward and a year later, managed to get a 3.71 after 35 units</p>
<p>applying to usc, nyu, and ucs this fall</p>
<p>hey, guys im in a simliar situation, except my reasons aren't primarily due to slacking off. I had(don't know if i still do now) a learning disability in high school so my grades suffered. But i had pushed myself very hard and ended up with a 3.9 in a JC. I currently im planning to apply to (rice, wustl, cornell, cal..)
and maybe some more ivys. hey can some of u guys tell me my chances </p>
<p>here are my stats <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=382414%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=382414</a></p>
<p>holy crap 1.44 gpa!!</p>
<p>I sucked in high school with a weighted GPA of 2.56 and no SAT scores. I took a few years off, did some military stuff, went to two CC's and got a combined GPA of about 3.6. Rejected from top choice Georgetown (due to HS transcript, stupid IMO) but accepted at second choice George Washington University! I'm happy and consider it a success as I never in a million years would have been admitted as a freshman.</p>
<p>PS - I got a fantastic financial aid package too which is cool as a transfer student.</p>
<p>very inspiring Timberland! Thanks for sharing :D</p>
<p>Great story, SmileDarling. And great attitude - no one school is the end-all and be-all. Good for you for not being fixated on your first choice. Good luck at GWU.</p>
<p>Thanks for all those who have shared.</p>
<p>I had a friend with a 1.74 and went to community college but ended up transferring to a nice liberal arts school in the east. He didn't do well on his SATs so he improved them last year. He's been doing well</p>
<p>I had pretty decent high school stats, 3.7 GPA W, 3.5 UW, never took any AP's just a couple honors, 25 ACT and 1200 SAT. Got into a decent state college and have so far pulled a 3.75 GPA retook the SAT and received a 1320. Looking to transfer to some target schools for IB.... wish me luck...</p>
<p>I am success story...although my story isn't as impressive or inspiring as others here</p>
<p>I was a horrid student my fresh/soph years in high school. My GPA was a putrid 2.9 at a public high school, which put me in the bottom half of my class. My dad, a Yale grad, was almost ready to disown me. I knew I was better than this. From kindergarten, my parents and I were told that I was gifted. I had the highest standarized test scores in the state of Ohio in 5th grade, or so I was told. Middle school was also fine, but I stunk up my underclassmen years in HS.</p>
<p>In reality, I was just a slacker in high school. I didn't have a philsophical objection to work or a rebellious attitude. It's disgusting to say, but it was pure sloth that resulted in me getting bad grades. This included D's in biology and geometry. Yikes. </p>
<p>I started to turn it around my junior/sr year and managed a 3.7 both years. I think part of my academic psyche was damaged by my bad performance in my soph/jun year because I only got a 28 ACT, which probably could have been a lot better had I studied or had a little more confidence in my abilities.</p>
<p>Anyway, I went to a small LAC for my first year of college without any intention to stay. I got a 3.8 my first semester and a 3.95 my second. I was able to transfer to the University of Wisconsin as a sophmore. The great thing was, I had 12 AP credits and some "extra" credits that transfered from my first college's language program. I had 44 credits my first semester of soph year, nearly a full semester. ahead of where I needed to be to graduate on time. It was a good feeling to finally be on the top of my game after so long.</p>
<p>Your story is an important one, Sardc. I'll bet a lot of readers can relate to it. Probably more so than an "I was a 1.0 in hs, and now am at Harvard Phi Beta Kappa." Stories don't have to be extreme to show how possible it is to make a course correction during or after high school.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting it</p>
<p>2.6 high school ------> 3.7 college -------> Cornell University</p>
<p>^Wow! How did you do that?</p>
<p>I had a 3.0 in High School, and pitifully low SAT scores. I went right into Boise State University and got a 3.9 the first semester (straight A's, but the +/- system slapped me in the face), 3.6 the next (3 A's and one B, again hooray for the +/- system), and a 3.9 for summer classes (took 3 of them). 31 credits gives me a 3.8'ish overall GPA. I am in the Honors College now, Deans List, and tutoring students in our writing center. 17 credits in progress, two 300-level classes, two honors classes and one 400-level class. I am a sophomore and applying to transfer to NYU - Gallatin in Spring 08.</p>
<p>These are great success stories, really.</p>