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<p>1.) A 3.9 GPA is “masking” a couple of pretty prominent failures.
2.) You’re right that given your admissions status, community college was the best choice.
3.) NO. If what you’ve described is your complete situation, there is certainly no reason to feel wronged, betrayed, or indignant. You were placed in a situation where it would have been very easy – very easy – to rise to the top of your class and stand out. In a high school like that, nobody’s asking you for a 1500. What they’re hoping is that you’ll be an excellent student for that high school. If you’re accurately describing your high school – filled with gang warfare and drug abuse – then it sounds to me like Ivy Leagues would have drooled after you if only you could have given them some kind of excuse for accepting you. Instead, what you describe is a pattern of using your circumstances as an excuse for failure.</p>
<p>You did poorly in high school, you tell us, because it was a bad high school and because your parents neglected you. You did poorly in college (the W’s) because it was a bad high school. You don’t want to do anything in your college because there’s nothing to do because you did poorly in high school because it was a bad high school.</p>
<p>As Shades told you a few posts above: now or never.</p>