<p>Hello CC (College Confidential)!!
I joined you guys in April 2007 in my junior year of high school. As a senior, I applied to a bunch of liberal arts colleges, wanting to find a place where I "belonged" and "fitted in." I got into only my safeties (lol, applying to Berkeley with a 3.3 GPA)--2 out of 7 schools. I was very naive... Then I indifferently chose Foothill College (a wonderful [but quiet] CC in Los Altos, CA) to attend for 2 years with the intention of transferring. </p>
<p>Damn am I happy to be where I am right now. In my humble opinion, I'd recommend most all people to attend CC after high school, esp in these horrible economic times. But yeah now I have a 3.6 GPA (with only B's and above!!), know a little more about what I want to do in life, am more responsible from going to school and working, etc.--at a very trivial monetary cost!!</p>
<p>But anyway enough with my story--I feel like SUCH a lucky gal right now--thank you CC for your countless advice, which I looked at as a semi-lurker. (Over the past month, I become much more prominent in the forums though!!) You're all nice ppl who are obsessed about college admissions. :)</p>
<p>So just a word of thanks, glad I'm here, nice to know you guys. YAY!!</p>
<p>Good luck to you all! </p>
<p>Anyone else can post their thanks to w/e is pertinent here ^_^</p>
<p>OMG I love this thread haha. When UCI told me I couldn’t even apply with a 2.1 (LOL) from my previous international uni, I was so depressed. And then I came across this forum and saw neurotic transfers with amazing stats so I vowed to bust my own lax butt and make more than a 3.0. Now I’m a neurotic transfer as well hahahahhaa.</p>
<p>Got into my top picks LA & SD with a 3.7 later on, thrilled that they chose to ignore my old transcripts which I still sent in. Or maybe they thought I learned my lesson slash grew up, which I very much did (started college at 16).</p>
<p>Finish strong peeps, we’ve already got one foot across the finish line. I love CC. So much helpful (not to mention super knowledgeable) people in here you’d think college counselors would be out of business. :D</p>
<p>Yes a thanks thread! Finally I can make some shoutouts</p>
<p>First of all, I would like to thank thedude44 for telling me about Berkeley TAP, I wouldn’t have gotten in w/o it.</p>
<p>kc_sunshine, for telling me that I could still complete most of prereqs in the fall and that i still stood a chance getting into cal despite the fact that I have a hella capped major. </p>
<p>janethedoe and emils for keeping us occupied for this dam wait. </p>
<p>I’ll admit, this site didn’t really help me.
I came here AFTER I planned everything out on my own(by means of a poorly made website my CC provided and advice from friends) and my fate would’ve still been the same if I hadn’t come here several months back as my grades were more or less set and my course selection too.</p>
<p>I was neurotic. I have something like a 3.6-3.7 UC GPA and thought that I didn’t have a snowball’s chance in her at getting into UC Irvine and even the Cal States(long beach and fullerton). My neurotic parents told me I should look into applying out of state because I’d F’ed up so bad(I had to repeat calc 2 and honors calc 1+2taking them 5 times in total only to get a C in regular calc2[crud prof and I didn’t see an entire page on the first exam] and a B in honors calc1+2)</p>
<p>I seriously thought I was a complete F’ up. You guys did give me more confidence though. Before coming here I would’ve gladly gone to a CSU and would’ve been proud there. Your brash elitism showed me something much more. You showed me that I was more than good enough for my crummy default school and in a whole other league apart from the CSUs. While I might be going to my default school due to financial motivations, I’d like to thank you all for convincing me that I truly am superior to much of the world’s population. Thank you for your words of encouragement. Thank you for telling me that my fears of inadequacy were in fact unfounded. Thank you.</p>