<p>ITT: OP who is angry that s/he didn’t try harder the last three years.</p>
<p>Same. But I’m not going to try to make admissions officers into psychics.</p>
<p>I personally think HS is not a good predictor, you can get by in a fairly competitive high school and do just fine. Honestly, I didn’t care for high school that much. I will say though that if you carry i-don’t-care attitude into college, you will be left behind. If you get your stuff together and realize that college is a lot more serious than HS, you’ll be just fine and likely outperform high school by tons.</p>
<p>Here’s a scenario:</p>
<p>She was the valedictorian of her class. She played soccer ever since she was 3. She even competed in international tournaments. Her other passions included volunteering through her youth group and playing the guitar. Basically she ‘mastered’ high school. She was then accepted to JHU.</p>
<p>Here we are two years later: She was put on academic probation because she didn’t do her work. No one panicked yet. Everyone thought it was just a ‘hiccup’. Then she ended up dropping out to live with her coke addict boyfriend and was later arrested for drug possession. Now she is in and out of rehab.</p>
<p>This happened to my cousin. She was the perfect student in high school. Everyone thought she would continue to do very well in college. She had the academics, the ECs, the test scores to persuade the admissions officers that she was going to succeed at their college. </p>
<p>My point is that sure, past records could provide indications that the student will do well but it’s not always the case. Haha, my history teacher finished high school with a 1.5 GPA. Both of his parents went to Cornell but even the legacy couldn’t pull him through. He ended up going to <em>gasp</em> Montana State. Supposedly everyone in his family thought he was going to fail epically. Now he teaches at a school that was ranked #9 by Newsweek and #50 by US News, he coaches the varsity track team and the varsity soccer team and absolutely loves his job. Now if high school supposedly predicts how well you will do in college then apparently he is one lowly bum.</p>
<p>And to the OP: I noticed someone on here mentioned that people who did not do well in high school should go to a community college to show that they are willing to change. OP, a 3.0 GPA is what, a B? Going to a community college because of a B average?? That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Where I come from only the students with D & F averages go to community colleges. I guess I must have missed the memo. No wonder why so many kids are jumping out of windows and ODing these days! A B-average will get you nowhere except a community college!!</p>
<p>High school doesn’t always correlate to performance in college/life. </p>
<p>Tell me something I don’t know.</p>
<p>Admissions counselors aren’t psychics.</p>
<p>[/thread] please?</p>
<p>High school isn’t my thing.</p>
<p>There are many exceptions, kids who did so-so in HS and excelled in college or kids who excelled in HS and went on to flunk out of college.</p>
<p>But in general, doing well in high school is a reflection of being smart enough to get good grades and being responsible enough to turn things in on time and being enough of a good citizen well to follow the rules and stay out of trouble, and in general, performance in high school is predictive of performance in college.</p>