Also, I never meant to make it seem like I was trashing SDSU or community colleges. It wasn't my intention at all. It's just the SDSU campus is way too close to home for me, which is a bummer since I always wanted college to be my escape but then again, I really don't have many options since I fucked up last year and barely scraped by this year.
Thank you, Captain Obvious (I went there!)Originally Posted by Captain Obvious!
You should have also added that there is no way you're going to get into Berkley.
Seriously, though: you need some sort of counselling to get yourself on track.
Fine, then there are plenty of other colleges that aren't Berkley which are away from your house, but because you didn't give a fuck until now, you're probably going to have to go into community college for the first couple years.
I mean, I went into physics, and even though MIT is a great school for physics, I knew coming out of high school I would never get into MIT. I was a far stronger student than you.
You need to be reasonable about the position that you put yourself in. Find other schools that have decent pharmacy programs but that you could reasonably transfer to out of community college.
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I don't know about this, if he can turn that GPA around in his senior year, there are probably plenty of schools that will take him as a freshman, especially if his SATs are pretty good.
I'll take your word for it, as I would have thought that most decent schools would not take someone with a GPA less than 3.0, and I doubt he'll be able to raise it to above a 3.0 in one year.
On the other hand, if he can show definite improvement from his freshman year to his senior year, and discuss it in his essays, it's possible he can get into a good school.
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Sorry, I don't get the prince of wales thing, but I guess CalPoly accepts more people from out of CA? I didn't factor in my senior year for my GPA, but if I ace all of my classes next year, it should be a 3.0 guaranteed. But isn't it true that senior year isn't really considered when applying to colleges? And yeah, there are other steps and measure I'm going through like preparing for the SAT to make sure I get a perfect score and I'm looking about taking online classes for some courses my school doesn't offer retakes for. I'll have to make sure the colleges I apply to consider those valid though. And as for area; I live in the Oak Park neighborhood, idk if you know where that is, but it's a few minutes from City Heights. That's best I can describe it.
Last edited by Cherry Flavored Pez; 06-29-2009 at 04:47 PM.
Unfortunately, usually only the first semester is completed by the time applications are submitted.
Okay, first of all, you're not going to get a perfect score on your SAT, but it's good that you're working to improve your score.And yeah, there are other steps and measure I'm going through like preparing for the SAT to make sure I get a perfect score and I'm looking about taking online classes for some courses my school doesn't offer retakes for. I'll have to make sure the colleges I apply to consider those valid though.
Secondly, those online classes will probably count only if your school puts them on your transcript, but that doesn't sound like it's the case.
Have you talked to your school's counselor about your situation or anyone else that works at getting high school students into college?
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The school itself has a period in the morning where you can take those online classes, so I'm hoping the colleges will validate them as A-G and course credit. I've only talked to my teacher, the counselor for my class was always out or busy doing whatever. I think there are programs that guarantee admission to SDSU, but I heard it only applies to freshmen. I'll check it out once it starts in september.
Just because it doesn't factor in for the application, a transcript still needs to be sent at the end of your school year.
Cal Poly is the hardest of the CSU's to get into.
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I lived in La Mesa, by the way.
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Ahh, from the OP, I thought he was saying he would have a cumulative HS GPA of 2.83 at the end of junior year, now I see that he meant 2.83 for his junior year only and ~2.0 cumulative HS after this year. Well, CFP, that will make it a bit harder than I initially thought, but you should still have a fighting chance at getting into a decent school if you can show a good SAT score and good senior year grades. Good senior grades can let you "punch above your weight" in terms of HS GPA when applying, as has been discussed, so that's definitely the main thing you need to strive for, more so than SATs or anything else. And yeah, a good essay talking about how/why you've learned to motivate yourself and do better than you did early in HS will help too.
Last edited by Syme; 06-29-2009 at 05:54 PM.
Where in San Diego do you live?
You seriously need to say that you're the Prince of Wales to get into Cal.
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better start practicing on your english accent.
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