Wow! School is so Unfair!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So today I emailed my guidance counselor and asked her about applying to Governor's School since you have to apply through your school and each school only gets one or two nominees. She then emailed me back and told me I am ineligible to apply because nominees must have a 4.0 GPA, I have 3.97. First off, the state says that any sophomore with a 3.3 and 145 PSAT are eligible to be nominated and principals should announce Governor's School applications to all eligible students. Well my school decided to ignore that rule and make their own and they refuse to make an exception.</p>

<p>On top of that, this year I took a Latin midterm. Our teacher told us that the exam is not designed to be finished so we should work on what we know and skip what we don't. Well, I took the whole test and skipped every question on declining adjectives since I didn't know how to do them and moved onto the translations at the end which I knew I did very well on. I then got my score back and received a 78. When I asked the teacher he told me that the translations were worth only a fraction of the regular questions. I confronted him later and he said "well one person did finish so that makes it fair." What the heck, he specifically told us the exams were not intended to be finished so we shouldn't rush and we should skip around, I did just that. Well that 78 gave me my only B+ as my semester grade and therefore I have a 3.97. I absolutely hate school with all my heart.</p>

<p>Sorry for the rant, I just had a really bad day today.</p>

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<p>That’s pretty ridiculous to make a perfect GPA a perquisite for nomination into a gov school.</p>

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<p>What irritates me the most is that it’s not what the state requires, my school just decided that they’re basically only looking at GPA when I take the hardest classes as my school by far (8 classes in an 8 period schedule) and they aren’t weighted.</p>

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<p>Stuff like this drives me crazy. But that B+ is honestly very insignificant in the scheme of things – which I know is easier to acknowledge rationally than to truly convince yourself.</p>

<p>As for the Governor’s School, you might want to tell your guidance counselor that you’re still interested and ask her if it would be possible for her to keep you updated. Perhaps no two perfect-GPA students will be interested and you will be able to apply.</p>

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<p>Ordinarily I wouldn’t give a crap about getting one B+ which is why I didn’t fight the grade but now I realize that I would be allowed to apply if that B+ was an A-.</p>