Admissions Question: Science GPA

pinkmuscat
Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:08:50 +0000

I’m just wondering… I want to go into business, and Sloan is one of my top choices. Math and science at my school, is very competitive. I went to a public middle school, and although there is nothing wrong with public schools in general, there was something very wrong with mine. Every year, 10+ kids would get expelled for who knows what, and oddly enough math wasn’t a top priority. I tried really hard to move up in math. I worked ahead of the “smart” class and worked by myself in the back of the classroom while other students threw garbage at me. Then I got into this really great private school, and was super excited to get the oppurtunity to go to school with people that actually cared about learning and not hurting people. However, my math was not up to par with the other students (that had the money to afford private middle schools and private tutors, I might add), and was placed in the normal math class. Although I am much (much) better than the people in my math level, I cannot move up because I am already too far behind. In addition, I have taken the hardest possible science classes, and have performed okay’sh, but not wxceptionally (which is partially the result of my inferior math training). And I know that this post is getting way too long, but I’m venting, and if anyone took the time to read it thank you! Well, will not taking the hardest math classes keep me out of Sloan?