<p>FOr those of you who are going to transfer especially out of CC's. What is driving you to do this? Why didn't you settle and go to the 4 year uni that accepted you? What makes you want to do better and work hard? What motivates you to do all this?</p>
<p>because i didnt get accepted to any four years out of h.s. (also, that's my motivation. hoohoho)</p>
<p>Applied to a very small amount of schools; got admitted to one (that honestly isn't all that bad), but wasn't really motivated to attend. Fourth year HS grades weren't there either, so I'm one of the few rescind cases you'll come across.</p>
<p>What makes me want to work hard? Renewed focus. Up until my last year in high school, I was looking into the fields of engineering, computer science, etc. just because I seemed like a natural at it. I thought I lacked the interest and motivation to pursue anything else, so I went with what I thought was safe. </p>
<p>When I finally found something that I might actually want to do as a career, I finally found myself wanted to work again towards that new goal.</p>
<p>Basically, I didn't do so well in high school.
What motivates me (even until this day) is proving to myself, as well as others, that I'm not the person that I was in high school.
I'm just as good as anybody else and this will show once I graduate from UCLA with a 3.7 GPA.
HOLLA!</p>
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<p>Because we are smart and know how to save money while still getting the same education as anybody else going to a 4 year institute and get higher GPA and prepare ourselves to do even better at a 4 year institue so we don't screw up our first year there.</p>
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<p>You live in Magic Mountain?
You lucky SOB!</p>
<p>bc i felt like if i went to a state school, i'd be limiting myself and letting my HS record speak for me....</p>
<p>so i decided i'm too smart to settle for that, and i also have a dream school in mind that motivated me to work hard and try to transfer there.</p>
<p>My motivation is CC. ;)
Honestly, I feel like this forum has changed my life. I did not even apply to any 4-year university out of high school because I was so ignorant of the application process and was too lazy to write personal statements.. My SAT score wasnt bad (2010), and I got a 4.0 in my senior year, but taking really crappy classes like Leadership, Ecology,
and the only AP I had was Cal AB (got a 5 in it). At that time, I figured out I would go to FCC and transfer to Cal State Fullerton or whatever school I can get into. Did not really care for my education. But ever since I found this forum, I had to rethink about myself after seeing people here are all very motivated and everybody work hard to achieve their dreams. </p>
<p>Now I want to go to a UC, get a good education and be a typical CCer. :)</p>
<p>my motivation = proving people who looked down upon me wrong! (relatives)</p>
<p>Like many of transfer hopefuls, I did terrible in high school, the only highlight being my senior year in which I finished with a higher GPA for the school year than the people that got in Caltech, Bowdoin, UCLA, etc. (4.0 w/ AP scores of 5 on Cal AB and English Lit, 4 on AP World, and 3 on Environmental Science while doing a 4 month long school play). And the most painful part of it, as I looked at my peers that got into these top notch schools, I knew that I was just as good as all of them.</p>
<p>I guess I am one of those people that needed to fail in order to succeed. I needed to be backed up in a corner and ask myself "what the hell am I doing, I'm better than this." After my senior year, I went through a period of deep resentment for having failed, and told myself "no more." It was at that moment that I gained a new sense of myself, one that convinced me to never relent at my goal. Ever since, I've done extremely well in school (only one B since high school in a class with a retarded professor).</p>
<p>I really messed up in high school because i didnt really care about it that much. After reading several posts on this forum, I quickly changed my mind about going to cal state northridge and switch to pcc. My only motivation is to show everyone that I can do anything that I want to do if I put effort into it. I want to prove those ppl who belittle me wrong and show them that I am better than them.</p>
<p>I am in the same boat as you guys are</p>
<p>seems like most of us are out to prove people wrong lol</p>
<p>I only got the motivation ball rolling my junior year of h.s. (after a good frosh and TERRIBLE soph yr) and i got rejected/waitlisted at all of my dream schools.</p>
<p>while i think csus are awesome for certain people/purpose I sort of refused to settle. I knew i could get into a great school. As skin deep as this may sound, I want to prove this to myself.</p>
<p>the song remains the same...</p>
<p>my motivation is to prove everyone wrong just like everyone else but also b/c i discovered my dream school after the application process was over and want to recognize my full potential at said school:)</p>
<p>i did pretty well in high school...i took only AP and honors classes, finished calc by my sophmore year, did tons and tons of EC's/volunteer work, and ended up with a 3.79 unweighted GPA. I never applied to any universities in hs, because i knew i was going to community college. I didn't know what i wanted to major in, and plus my mother stated that if i go to community college for 2 years she'll pay for CC plus the other 2 years of university...</p>
<p>so i can get a badass job.</p>
<p>that too! ;)</p>
<p>well eventually i want to start my own company really</p>
<p>i hate it when people say 'i would go to a CC, but i worked too hard in high school for it to be worthless'</p>
<p>theres just so many things i find wrong about that statement and it basically makes anyone who says such a thing look like a COMPLETE IDIOT</p>
<p>If you worked too hard in high school, almost to the point that the time you used wasn't worthwhile, then you should have made it to the school of your choice (or at least close to it).</p>