<p>Sometimes a truly excellent EC can trump classroom grades. Your EC might be big enough. It might not. But at this point, you can’t do anything about your not-so-good old grades, you can just go forward.</p>
<p>You need to sit down and ask yourself if spending all of your time on your EC is the reason why your grades aren’t as good as you’d like. Have you been neglecting your schoolwork? Have you overloaded yourself, and just don’t have enough hours in the day? Is your EC so much more interesting and compelling that you’d rather do that than your homework? Perhaps instead of overloading yourself even more right now with your HS classes, CC classes, and EC commitments, you’d be better off re-organizing your life so that you can focus on that EC. In other words, determine which classes would support that activity, and re-arrange your academic schedule around the EC. Shifting to a Home School model could be the way to go.</p>
<p>Another question that you should explore with your guidance counselor is whether or not you have un-diagnosed ADD. Really good test scores, and the ability to hyper-focus on projects that are compelling to you, but lack-luster classroom performance is practically a diagnosis for ADD. Should you determine that this is part of your personal neurological make up, your guidance counselor and school psychologist can help you master better time-management and organizational tools that will help you do better on the not-so-compelling parts of your schoolwork.</p>