<p>I graduated high school with a 1.8 GPA, and got a 17 on the ACT - I applied to Fordham for the Fall semester, but of course I was rejected.</p>
<p>Some of the main reasons my grades were so low are because 1.) I moved a lot and was in and out of homeless shelters, 2.) My father died during my freshman year, 3.) My mother remarried my sophomore year, 4.) I've had ADD and Dyslexia all of my life, and I just found out about a month ago (I know that sounds crazy, but my family and I basically never went to the doctor for stuff until this past year because my mother is psychotic, and distrustful of doctors. Plus with our moving a lot and such, my teachers never got familiar enough with me to spot it.) 5.) I was in a deep depression for all of my Jr. and Senior year, 6.) blah blah blah.. The list goes on and on about my sad, pathetic life. Of course I'm not making excuses, but I really do believe it's a shame that only rich kids get fair shots at life in our society.</p>
<p>Right now I'm at a community college and I want to transfer to Fordham for the Spring semester. Currently I have all A's in my classes with a 3.9 GPA (Adderall is amazing), which I'm pretty excited about. I'm also involved in some campus activities, and I volunteer at the soup kitchen every Saturday.</p>
<p>If I maintain my GPA throughout the rest of the semester, write a good essay and get good "letters of good standing" do you think I'll have a shot at being accepted to Fordham?
Also, will I have to take the ACT again?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and if this helps or matters:
Ethio-American Female
Mid-West</p>
You gotta lose this attitude quick. Chips on your shoulders only add extra weight to the baggage that you have to carry around. </p>
<p>As for your chances, one semester is not enough at the community college. Go there for a full 2 years, get an associates degree, and THEN transfer somewhere. You have a new lease on life, but you have to give it a chance to take hold and build a new foundation for yourself.</p>
<p>SLUMOM, I know, it seems like that would be the case. Unfortunately, it was not… it’s an odd and complicated situation. Plus she married a complete loser. I’d rather not go into detail, but please know that it is the truth.</p>
<p>Because I’ve always dreamed of living in New York City, and I strongly believe that Fordham is the best fit for me among the other schools in New York? I don’t see why it’s important to note. How much I like Fordham or NYC plays no role in my consideration for admission.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised you changed your username, SomeGirl, but your last post indicated you were accepted to Fordham and it was among several other discrepancies in your stories. Why should anyone get involved in your online drama now?</p>
<p>Actually, OP’s story is a cautionary tale. When she first posted, she was just finishing her sophomore year, and realized her grades were going to be limiting her chances. Then she posted (the next month) Junior and Senior grades, and an ACT of 34. Obviously, those were hypothetical wishful thinking grades. But wishful thinking doesn’t make something a reality. It takes grit and determination to climb out of a hole you or your life circumstances have created, and she did not succeed in doing that.</p>
<p>Now, she has graduated and started at a CC. Has she learned the difficult lessons? It doesn’t appear so. She is claiming to have a 3.9 gpa after, what? 2 weeks? in school. Hardly a track record, and probably amounts to 1 or 2 graded items. Again, wishful thinking. And now blaming others, society, etc. which is not a track to grit and determination, but the road to more bad grades and more negative consequences.</p>
<p>^^^IF that is the case, it could be a cautionary tale but OP could just as easily be some guy in his fifties who doesn’t work and lives in his mother’s basement and has nothing better to do! Given the anonymity of the internet we just don’t know and given the varying stories, we have no reason to believe ANY of it is true. Either way OP needs more help than one can get from an online forum…unless he or she is doing research for a book on ■■■■■■! </p>
<p>I expect SomeGirl/blackandblue will just create a new account and continue this fantasy life which I guess is more exciting than real life. Maybe it will be here in the Fordham forum or maybe it will be in another forum like Howard or NYU given that they were also supposedly dream schools at one point. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what the new stories will be like!!!</p>
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