<p>Well, I know young people with friends who aspire to cool colleges (MIT is probably the most aspired to college among the young people I know best), but they also know that they have to challenge themselves as teenagers to have cool choices like that. My son, part of that circle of MIT-liking young people I know, became interested in Yale by attending a Yale regional information session a few years ago, one evening when I was busy with another meeting. This year, he and I attended another Yale meeting together. Yale does a GREAT job with its road shows, and definitely makes the case that young people looking for a cool college experience should apply. But the crush of applicants means that someone who aspires to Yale had best work hard while in high school. </p>
<p>I think your friend needs some more realistic choices. She could look at a college guide in the public library to get some idea of what kind of grades and scores are needed to get into various colleges.</p>
<p>Amb3r: I suppose you could say that considering teachers think that and usually pity me because of it. But i hope that over the next couple of months she can become her own person and not me.
Hunt: I agree and I think I might get her a college guide. It would probably bring her down to earth.</p>
<p>To all the posters: thank you for your honesty because it really has helped. You have all given me great suggestions as to what to do. So i thank you.</p>
<p>You need to tell her that there is no chance that she could get into Yale, even if she gets all A’s in an all AP course load. You need to tell her to get more realistic goals because looking at here grades so far she should even consider the 2nd tier schools reaches. </p>
<p>This happened to my friend soph year. He suddenly got very serious about school and wanted to get into Stanford. However, he had poor grades and thus did not qualify for AP classes, which virtually shut him out of Stanford, no mater what he could have done junior or senior year. I do not know why parents and teachers do not explain how grades are important every year, starting with freshman year. </p>
<p>I hope this was not too mean, but bottom line there is no chance of her acceptance.</p>
<p>freedomfighterxy : your post wasn’t too mean at all. i agree. i simply posted this to find out if freshman and sophmore year would affect her, but i now know without a doubt that it does b/c like u said the poor grades mean she isn’t qualified for AP classes and so far her work ethic hasn’t improved.</p>