I really dont know how to title this question; PLEASE HELP!!

raiderfan4eva
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:30:05 +0000

Looking around the CC forums, especially in the “what are my chances” forum, I’ve noticed many if not all of the people posting their apps have gone to a very “competitive high school”… in one of the recent forums I’ve read, a CCer described a competitive/good high school as a school in which the majority of the students attending, graduate and/or goto college…

Unfortunately at my school, no one really cares about those 2 things… I mean my clique of friends and i (about 30 or so of us), we plan on graduating and going to college, but the majority of my school doesn’t even care… I goto a school in downtown L.A often described as an “Inner-city” school… The school is huge and their are a lot of gangsters and what not… you know, typical things that make a school earn the title of Inner-city… An L.A times article i recently read, called us the 2nd worst school in LAUSD (ie. we have a 58 percent drop-out rate)…

My question is, will colleges see me as the student who beat the odds in our dangerous neighborhood etc etc… or will i be the student who just merely coasted through High School, because our school was too “easy” or too “ghetto”