So, Where do I go from here?

zfelicia
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:34:01 +0000

Ask your teachers what you can do to improve your grades. Even if they’re horrible teachers and you don’t think that they’ll help at all, ask them for help anyways–they may surprise you. Oftentimes, teachers are more willing to help if they meet students one-one-one… at least, that’s how it is in my experiences.

Also, how are your extracurriculars? If you aren’t in the EC scene already, you should start. Also, find some leadership positions. You said you may want to be a journalist? Try to become an editor of your school newspaper. If your school doesn’t have a newspaper, see if you could start one–if colleges see that you helped found your school newspaper, they’d be impressed. You could also try founding a screenwriter’s/film-making club or a future lawyer’s club.

The bottom line is that if you can maintain a solid GPA (with hopefully an above-C average) and if colleges can see that you’re actively pursuing your interests and leading others to do the same, then all is not lost. If you really do not want to go to a community college, then don’t. There are plenty of other great universities out there that you may want to look into–like those universities that probably have been sending you lots of emails lately. Although their incessant “I’m trying to reach ___” emails may seem annoying (ah, Drexel), one of those colleges may actually BE the right college for you.

Also, since your guidance counselor seems kind of sucky, you can try consulting with one of those college counselors I keep hearing about. Ask around to see if you can find one that is actually worth his/her fee (some of them like to inflate your confidence a bit too much).

Anyways, I hope this helped. Just tell yourself to NOT LOSE HOPE! You’re a brilliant person, and you’ll pick yourself up. :]