<p>Finally today I got my grades I Just wnated to know what anyone thought of them and if I have a chance to go to college
AP Euro-b+(first AP class)
Digital Pub-A
English 10=A-
Chemistry-B
Geometry-c+(I know really bad)
Spanish 3-B-
I am only a sophmore but I just want to know how I am doing to the standards of the people on CC
I know my grades may be low but I have two more trimesters that if I do well will round up my grade. Along with end of year finals that make up 5% to20% of my grade of my year long grade
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Of course you are going to college.</p>
<p>That C+ in geometry just crushed any chance u have left at the ivies.....lol jk just make sure u bring it up ur next two trimesters and ull be fine.</p>
<p>I wish we had trimesters instead of semsters....:(</p>
<p>Ut Oh...C+ (whips out rifle..places barrell in mouth...click..boom...)</p>
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I am only a sophmore but I just want to know how I am doing to the standards of the people on CC
I know my grades may be low but I have two more trimesters that if I do well will round up my grade. Along with end of year finals that make up 5% to20% of my grade of my year long grade
Thanks in advance
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<p>dont listen to mirror.....you can learn a lot from this site. I wish I had found out about this forum sooner. But yes, it might mess around a bit with your head.</p>
<p>uhm crazyglue actually this site is addictive....:(</p>
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you can learn a lot from this site. I wish I had found out about this forum sooner. But yes, it might mess around a bit with your head.
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Of course you can. But just learn, don't start posting statistics and obsessing over everything too soon.</p>
<p>I know I appear to be obsessed and already too nervous about college but it just that a few recent events have me wigged about it,
1) My parents told me that I have no money for collge and have to earn it on my own-I work already but most tution I can nevr earn earn up for
2) Got my PSAT scores back and I did really poorly on them and because of that the colleges that have started contacting me are not the best
3) With the finding out of grades I realized that half my grade is below me and the other half is above me so I feel very margnialized and average.
Thanks for letting me rant
Merry Christmas and happy Holidays</p>
<p>I know this thread is old but I would like a few more responses.
Also, just to add more to my grades here are my ECs
Tennis JV (9,10-will continue)
Community Service Club(9,10-will continue)
-in community Service I have led the Northwesern Settlement project
MUN(9,10-will continue)
-I have done three MUNs so far and won one award, unlike some school students have to apply to do MUNs and since I am competing aganist seniors I usually have no chance at getting in. I am going to the National High School MUN in New York in March though.AT the end of this year I can apply for a leadership position.
Girl Scouts(kinda dorkY)
I have won/earned my silver award-25 hours of community service
been doing Girl Scouts since in Kindergarden
Working on earning my Gold Award and organizing and leading a thinking Day event.
Prosody-School's literary Magazine
Editor of Layout(10 and onward)
Was apart of staff when a freshmen
Plays/Arts
Shakespeare Play-Titania's singing fairy Attendant(9)
Shakespeare Play-Head Costumer(10 and onward)
Art work was featured in Prosody-I may have been apart of the staff but it was the seniors who chose what went into the magazine
With this I would also lie to add that I am a non traditional student due to the fact that I commute 45 mins to school by train to school and then 45 mins back. Getting home late every night also explains poor grades.
Thanks for future comments.</p>
<p>You do seem to have a lot of ECs.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response Kchen!!!!!!!!!!!1
Most people at my school do more though and my advisor wants me to do much more
I hate my advisior
Also, when I have posted my stats before people said I did too little.</p>
<p>You're welcome.</p>
<p>If I were you, I wouldn't worry about ECs for now. I'd concentrate on grades, and work especially hard in geometry. Hope I helped.</p>
<p>It takes my friend 2 hours, not 45 minutes, to get to school.
This is quite common actually in my school; if it takes someone 45 minutes to get to school, then they are considered to be lucky.</p>
<p>I'im only concerned that you're taking Geometry as a sophomore. I took that in 8th grade.</p>
<p>WoW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-2 hours
I am sorry for complaining then but then long commutes are normal at your school so probably your school arranges activities to help those students. I live the farthrest away while everyone else lives like 5 to 10 mins away so the school holds things late that mess up with my study time.
Also, I think 45 mins is too short-I think my house is actually an hour away ans that time frame does not include walking a mile each way from the train station-I usually walk 4 miles a day.
Geometrey-In math,I am especially weak. I participate and do all the homework but I screw up on tests despite studying hard. Everything just leaves my mind. That's why I am worried for math I have to take four years of it plus its on the SAT. OH well!!!!!!! It is just the way the cookie crumbles!!!!!</p>
<p>To Godfather: Not everyone has the same opportunity as you to take high school courses in middle school. In fact, Misty is on the right track..down here in Texas that is the Math sequence, if one didn't start taking high school courses in middle school.</p>
<p>Algebra I (ninth grade)
Geometry (tenth grade)
Algebra II (eleventh grade)
Pre-Calculus (twelvth grade)
Calculus (most people who started taking high school courses in high school, don't make it to this level, unless they took summer school to get extra credit or decided to double up on their math courses during the year)</p>
<p>Keep in mind that on CC you see all these people taking Calculus in their sophmore/junior year that one forgets that this is not the norm. The majority of CC members are above average, and yes people who did not make it to Calculus their senior year can still get into the ivies or other highly selective universities.</p>
<p>To Misty: The SAT only goes up to Algebra II, sure Pre-Cal could help, but I just finished first semester of Algebra II. My score went up 120 points (550 to 670 and I am NOT a math person) on practice exams, compared to the beginning of the year when I didn't know any Algebra II at all. My point here is that you should learn your Algebra II well next year, so that you can take the test at the end of your junior year while all the things you learned in that course is fresh within your mind. Also, for us non-math people, we HAVE to take advantage of the point system, with answering only the ones we know for sure (not even narrowing down the answers,because there is a chance that it might be wrong, unless it's the grid problems,), and leaving the rest blank in order to get a 700+.</p>
<p>For test anxiety, I can't really help you with that, I guess you can try to pretend that you aren't taking a test, but rather doing a set of problems for your homework.</p>
<p>If you go to a public school it is not common to commute 45 minutes everyday. Now, if it was a private school, then that's a different story. </p>
<p>My school operates on the semester system (not sure if yours does), but each semester is split into three 6 weeks, and at the end of the three 6 weeks, the grades in each six weeks is averaged for the final semester grade (which is the only grade that shows up on the transcript). So when you think about it, you have three chances to get an A or to boost up a low average.</p>
<p>I'm a Texan too, I know it.</p>
<p>Thanks Siren!!!!!
Your advice is probably right, I will probably do better when I take Algebra 11
I really don't have test anxiety,it is just when it comes down to math my mind freezes and I make millions of easy mistakes.
Maybe I can scrap up enough money for a math tutor-if not now later for the SAT.
I really hated taking the PSAT, I really want to know what I got on the PLAN test I took. Perhaps I will just take the ACT-a lot of people in the Midwest just do that
I actually go to a private school-not a public school. I doubt it has a good reputation but my high school is really bad so I dud everything I could to avoid it.</p>