<p>Maybe High Point. They have a business degree with a concentration in Entrepreneurship, they’re a bit unconventional, and I bet they’d really like full pay in light of their recent building spree. And, it’s a stunning campus. [url=<a href=“http://business.highpoint.edu/minors/entrepreneurship-concentration]Entrepreneurship[/url”>http://business.highpoint.edu/minors/entrepreneurship-concentration]Entrepreneurship[/url</a>]</p>
<p>A 1.4 GPA, a 1980 SAT (550 Writing, 670 Reading, 760 Math), leaving Stuy after a couple of months, missing 200 days out of a school year, late start to college apps, etc…</p>
<p>You clearly sound like many classmates who voluntarily weeded themselves out of Stuy in my incoming class’ first two years due to being overwhelmed by the workload, rigor, and expectations. The HS GPA you have…most of which was from another high school rather than a NYC specialized HS reinforces that impression. A 1.4 GPA from Stuy is bad enough. It looks even worse if it comes from an average neighborhood high school unless it’s one of Stuy’s near academic peers like Midwood. </p>
<p>With the missing 200 days of the school year and the late start to colleges, you’re reminding me of a few older college friends who had rocky undergrad careers because they had serious issues with procrastination, not being able to organize/prioritize what needed to be done when, and absenteeism. However, one could never get away with missing 200 days…my LAC would have started academic suspension proceedings well before it got to that point. </p>
<p>IMO, you need to address the possible mental health issues which are causing the excess absenteeism and an apparent issue with prioritizing what needs to be done for the goal you hope to achieve first, if possible. </p>
<p>Failure to do this is very likely to repeat this very pattern with worse consequences such as an academic suspension or even expulsion on your college records. Consequences which you may have to explain for the rest of your life as those older college classmates are finding in their grad school/employment application process.</p>
<p>I’m curious why you need to go to college if you run a business making 7 figures already? What advantage will college give you?</p>
<p>I want to learn. If I stayed home and been a NEET, I’d be bored as hell. And plus, (I will not budge on this next position) “going to college” feels ingrained in the American mindset so I’m also going for a feeling of normalcy. I’d do anything to be normal again and not have to worry about matters such as this. And there’s the whole parents thing, gotta get into somewhere good so they can parade around your admissions letter, you know?</p>
<p>Why did you leave Stuyvesant? Were you ever actually depressed? If so it didnt seem to effect your business. Why are you just starting this project now?</p>
<p>I no longer know what was driving me to leave Stuyvesant. If I had to guess, it’s because I missed my friends which is weird because I was hanging out with them on weekends like usual and I had a good amount of friends in Stuy anyway. I don’t know what it means to be “depressed” which is why I fervently denied it when it was suggested. However, I have exhibited some of the symptoms. For example, I haven’t been well rested in ages. </p>
<p>It didn’t affect the business because I loved to spend money, so I’d work on it so I would be able to afford my increasingly luxurious lifestyle. </p>
<p>What project do you mean? Going to college?</p>
<p>*Then make sure you hit the ‘Hispanic’ box on the application. You are Hispanic if you self identify as one. *</p>
<p>Surely it doesn’t work like that…? They’d probably see it from my last name anyway. I don’t know how that’d work.</p>
<p>*In fact I’d bet an independent (accredited please) college counselor could get him all sorts of places. *</p>
<p>I was considering hiring Michele Hernandez to help me but I decided against it when she told me that she didn’t specialise in lower tier schools. Of course, this decision is always reversible if I see a reason to.</p>
<p>*Maybe he’s one of these kids who just didn’t mesh well with high school drama??? *</p>
<p>I never really had to deal with that, especially considering I barely attended…</p>
<p>You clearly sound like many classmates who voluntarily weeded themselves out of Stuy in my incoming class’ first two years due to being overwhelmed by the workload, rigor, and expectations.
I wasn’t doing that bad in Stuy. Like ~80’s with the same old bad habits. The way I persuaded my parents to let me leave it was that I told them I could do better in another school (ha ha). The real reasons behind it were because of the people. </p>
<p>I’d like to propose a hypothetical situation. Ultimately, I do want to reach an Ivy because personal reasons. I’ve been dreaming of it since I was something like 8 years old but that dream fell by the wayside after a while. So let’s say I do go to a CC for a semester. What then? Where next? How long will I have to stay there?</p>
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<p>If you went for one semester or one year, your high school transcripts will still be required and will hold more weight in determining whether or not you get accepted. Your best best would be to go to community college in NY do great and complete the associates (required) with the possibility of transferring to Cornell (where some of the SUNY CC’s have articulation agreements for various majors at the land grant colleges).</p>
<p>“Surely it doesn’t work like that…? They’d probably see it from my last name anyway. I don’t know how that’d work.”</p>
<p>Check this:
[Who’s</a> Hispanic? | Pew Hispanic Center](<a href=“http://www.pewhispanic.org/2009/05/28/whos-hispanic/]Who’s”>Who is Hispanic? | Pew Research Center)
Hell there was a past president of Mexico who was some German guy. Why shouldnt you be a member of la raza too?</p>
<p>“I was considering hiring Michele Hernandez to help me but I decided against it when she told me that she didn’t specialise in lower tier schools.”</p>
<p>too bad she is the only one. Tough break. Look around here and get your ass down to someone as your approach so far is super scattershot. Waiting until December of senior year to start thinking about this is a problem and you need a professional.
[Find</a> an Independent Educational Consultant Near You](<a href=“http://www.iecaonline.com/cfm_PublicSearch/pg_PublicSearch.cfm?mode=entry]Find”>http://www.iecaonline.com/cfm_PublicSearch/pg_PublicSearch.cfm?mode=entry)</p>
<p>"I’d like to propose a hypothetical situation. Ultimately, I do want to reach an Ivy because personal reasons. I’ve been dreaming of it since I was something like 8 years old but that dream fell by the wayside after a while. "</p>
<p>I’d say you are still doing everything wrong. An Ivy college is just an intermediate tool to get your to your real goal- which is some kind of career. You start at your real goal and work backwards and see what colleges and degrees you would need to get to your goal career. </p>
<p>But if you want to sneak into an Ivy you might try Ithaca College. You can take courses at Cornell when you are there, or at least you used to be able to. That would provide you a pathway in. </p>
<p>I still think thats all backwards though. If your problem is that you put in only as much effort as your buddies, then stay away from CC. If you problem is that you spent all of highschool smoking up, then make sure to check Pr0wl3r and dont pick a school with a big drug scene. If you like to sneak by under the radar, stay away from SUNY.</p>
<p><em>If</em> you are going to be successful in college you have to fix the reason why you weren’t in HS.</p>
<p>As rough around the edges as it is, Argbargy is giving you some good advice, especially about working backward from your goal.</p>
<p>I can get into Ithaca? That’d be lovely. Would that only open a pathway to Cornell? Or assuming I do stellar, I can get into something like HYPSM?</p>
<p>“If your problem is that you put in only as much effort as your buddies, then stay away from CC.”
All my friends are going to really good schools. In middle school, I prided myself on being able to exceed their work doing nothing, this wouldn’t be the case.</p>
<p>“If you problem is that you spent all of highschool smoking up, then make sure to check Pr0wl3r and dont pick a school with a big drug scene.”
Thankfully this wasn’t the case. Considering money, I feel like that would’ve caused me to slip into harder stuff. At any rate, when I tried it, I didn’t like it that much. Drinking also never appealed to me. </p>
<p>“If you like to sneak by under the radar, stay away from SUNY.”
What do you mean by this?</p>
<p>As for a final goal, I guess I just want financial stability. I don’t care what I do to do get it. I’ve attained that goal so far but I want to be able to comp sci things on the side and be able to land a job when I get bored.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids
That list… is it really accurate?</p>
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<p>With your current grades, probably not. Keep in mind although you test well, your transcript is a reflection of what you did for the past 3.5 years. Your best route to Cornell is to finish an associates at a 2 year SUNY/CUNY in an area where there are articulation agreements in place.</p>
<p>for example, here is the articulation agreement between Orange CC and Cornell</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sunyorange.edu/oep/pp/articulations/docs/cals_comprehensive_agreement.pdf[/url]”>http://www.sunyorange.edu/oep/pp/articulations/docs/cals_comprehensive_agreement.pdf</a></p>
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<p>We still havent figured out whats up with your GPA. It wasnt drugs. It wasnt that your peers all spent 0 minutes a day on home work and didnt care what grades they got and that rubbed off on you. </p>
<p>So whats up? I dont buy nonspecific depression, especially since it didnt effect your internet pr0n business. </p>
<p>It is kind of clear that nobody hassled you about your grades for 3.5 years. Or rapped their knuckles on your skull when you wanted to drop out of Stuyvesant. I think you have the opposite of the Tiger Mother going on here. </p>
<p>School is hard. Studying is boring. There will always be more more interesting things to do- cool tv shows, streaming movies, xbox games where your friends are on-line, cute cat videos on youtube. Coeds with low alcohol tolerance. You have to be able to control yourself and put your own academic plan first. </p>
<p>If you go to a SUNY you’ll be in classes with 150 people taught by mumbling TAs. There are no consequences- hand in the assignments or dont. Dont go to the 9am recitations, they dont care. Hell, you can skip the exams if you want, no one is going to track you down. The only consequence is when they put you on academic probation and block you from registering. </p>
<p>That kind of an environment could be a big problem for someone like you who has gotten into the habit of cutting corners because they can get by on native intelligence. You would be much better off a private LAC where the professors know your name and they email you if they see you have missed a class. Then you know there is an immediate consequence and will keep on your eye on the long term goals instead of sleeping in or going to a party instead of doing a paper. </p>
<p>Overall I think you will admit that you have screwed up this whole college-readiness project. Even your initial post is wrong- the College Board web site can generate a dumb list of names of colleges that fit your stats, you should have been asking CC which of those schools fit your personality. Please turn your academic life over to a professional- they can get you into a college that is the right fit for someone like you.</p>
<p>"It is kind of clear that nobody hassled you about your grades for 3.5 years. Or rapped their knuckles on your skull when you wanted to drop out of Stuyvesant. I think you have the opposite of the Tiger Mother going on here. "</p>
<p>For better or worse, I was really good at running away (weaseling my way out of situations like that)</p>
<p>“Even your initial post is wrong- the College Board web site can generate a dumb list of names of colleges that fit your stats, you should have been asking CC which of those schools fit your personality.”</p>
<p>I figured my stats were too extreme for the College Board site. </p>
<p>Also, your list of activities… I’m a pretty negative person; I can’t play video games for very long, I don’t find typical Youtube videos funny, and I don’t really like television or movies, be it Eastern or Western media. I don’t know why I didn’t do any school work. I can barely remember it. I’m guessing this falls into the professional help area, which I’m planning on seeking out over this break.</p>
<p>Overall, I’m definitely open to the private LAC route. I’d imagine that route would help with getting transfer recommendations too.</p>
<p>I’m going to stick my neck out with an opinion. I personally think you should start out at a CC with articulation agreements to four year schools you could attend. Get your undergrad degree. Work, or continue to work at this million dollar business. Then apply to GRAD SCHOOL at one of those Ivies.</p>
<p>higgins, I would NOT recommend Wabash. With a heavy core curriculum and extremely small classes, it is not a place for a struggling student. It is also in a small, depressed town. You have to be committed to going to school there. The all-male atmosphere is not for everyone, and, I don’t think the OP could get in. They rarely take C students.</p>
<p>Student here: If the OP is willing to pay high costs for a community college education, then Santa Barbara Community College would probably be his best bet. SBCC is relatively unique among CCs because it not only offers a transfer articulation agreement with UCSB (a great school for comp sci), but also has an active social scene since it’s extremely close to Isla Vista. Isla Vista is a college town, and parties quite a bit, but with tens of thousands of students, there’s plenty to do off campus. </p>
<p>Also, if the OP turns around (much as my cousin did when he went to CC), it’s possible to transfer to UC Berkeley, UCLA, or UCSD from SBCC, much easier than if he went to a bad LAC like Dean College.</p>
<p>My post must be getting buried…but yes, I thought SBCC > UC sounded like a reasonable option for the OP instead of a lower tier LAC.</p>
<p>OP – You could probably find a 4-th or 3rd tier school that would take you with that gpa, but I don’t think it would be worth attending. You’d be far better off following the advice a number of posters have given here and attend a community college. Do well at the community college, and you can go almost anywhere.</p>
<p>I’m going to disagree with the community college advice here.</p>
<p>In a normal circumstance, I’d agree 100% that for a student from a supportive family (e.g. not a kid who needs to escape an abusive home or something) for whom money is even somewhat of a factor, community college makes sense. It’s more likely to lead to a great 4 year school, particularly a state school, and it carried much less financial risk for a student than most 4 year schools.</p>
<p>But for the OP the financial concern isn’t there, and the career concerns are greatly reduced too. Anyone hiring this kid in the future is going to take their business history into account, which will outweigh an obscure name on a diploma. </p>
<p>Given that, I think it makes sense to pay for the experience the OP would enjoy the most, and it sounds like that’s a small residential program. If he really has a million dollars, why not spend it that way? In addition, it seems like there’s something off about the OP’s home life (parents don’t seem to have addressed the attendance, or to support any kind of medical care for a possible medical issue), and moving out might be a good reason. But, a kid who couldn’t manage the responsibilities of high school and a business, could be easily overwhelmed by the demands of college, a business, living independently, and finding a place in a new city is a lot. A college dorm, and the community it brings might be a very appropriate support.</p>
<p>If it comes down to it and I really have to attend a CC first before transferring to (ideally) HYPSM instead of going to a “normal-ish” college and then transferring to HYPSM, I do not wish to go all the way across the country. </p>
<p>My parents would never go for it. They’d go for it if it was a decent school but I don’t think they’ll approve of CC there. I’d respect their opinion on this matter as well because, well, one of the biggest reasons I want to even attend college is for my parents.</p>
<p>^^Uh, oh. That’s a very bad reason, everso. You are almost an adult whether your parents treat you like one or not. Going to college just to please them is a recipe for disaster. You can only do it if it’s for you, for your future, for the life you want to build.</p>
<p>Going to a big name would also make me (very) happy, making them happy is just a side effect. I like making other people happy.</p>
<p>That’s “nice” that you want to go to a big name school, but your GPA is abysmal to say the least if you reported it accurately on your other post. At this point it is less about what your parents want…and more about finding someone that will take a chance on you if you are ready to immerse yourself in academics at this point in your life. Sorry to be so harsh and poke holes in your dream balloon. 1.4 GPA is a really scary number for colleges…even with a compelling story.</p>