<p>To improve your grades, you can consider this book: How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less by Cal Newport.</p>
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<li> Learn how to study better and get better grades; your high school grades will no longer factor into your GPA. You get to start with a clean slate.</li>
<li> Write, write, write: take many english classes, philosophy classes, creative writing classes.</li>
<li> Write screenplays in your spare time: See “Save the Cat.”</li>
<li> Pursue general education requirment classes and criminal justice “major” classes</li>
<li> Work on transfering to another school for Jr yr</li>
<li> Internship might be too hard to get unless you have connections: either you, your parents friends, your school internship placement facilities. Maybe there are other “writing or editing” jobs closer to home?</li>
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<p>Example: for a semester: 1 english class, 1 creative writing class, 1 general education class, 1 criminal justice prerequisition class</p>