<p>I don’t think he will “only” go to an Ivy. When has it ever been a bad idea to shoot for the stars? Setting the standard bar high great.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what admissions processes are like for a BCM major but I’m sure it is very difficult.</p>
<p>I’m hoping to go to a top Business Grad School which means I need a couple years of experience after completing my undergraduate degree first.</p>
<p>Ah gotcha. Have you considered Wharton over at UPenn? My friend Will is over there and it is apparently the best Business school in the country.
And yes, I do understand there are good public grad schools too. I’m not taking the top public grads out of the picture, I would love to go to UCBerkeley, or any of the UC system schools for that matter. And of course, I am not opposed to going to grad school at UT. I’ll forever be a longhorn. But bquin’s right, what’s wrong with shooting for Harvard or CalTech? I’m looking to go to a chemistry grad school, and CalTech’s grad school is #1 and Harvard’s is #5. I don’t see why I shouldn’t shoot for Ivy.</p>
<p>I love this thread!! waayy better than the negative energies of the chance me threads!!! :)</p>
<p>-Sandra</p>
<p>I graduated high school with a 2.8 and a 29 on the ACT. I got mostly A’s and B’s but I failed math every single year and that dragged my average down. At the time I didn’t realize the disparity, I figured I was just a crappy student who wasn’t very smart. In my first year of community college I failed algebra and got a 2.7. Then I was diagnosed with dyscalculia, retook algebra, and raised my gpa to a 3.5 within two semesters and got accepted to University of Michigan. I am leaving my community college with a 3.7 and starting at Mich in the Fall. :)</p>
<p>(With all of my math requirements COMPLETE!!!)</p>
<p>@ Twisted- Were you accepted to UMich Ann Arbor or at another campus?</p>
<p>Cheers, TwistedxKiss.</p>
<p>Failed out of high school with a 0.68 GPA. Absolutely couldn’t have cared less about school. Goofed off, got in trouble, joined bands, partied.</p>
<p>10 years later went back to school with a vengeance.</p>
<p>Just finished my first year with a 3.9 gpa. Honor Student. Going to be TAP certified. Member of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. On course to graduate with honors and transfer to UCLA, UC Berkeley, or a top private.</p>
<p>I am going to hang the PhD I get someday on the wall next to my high school transcript.</p>
<p>@BerkeleyOrBust Man, you are nuts))</p>
<p>east89: Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>I seriously love this thread.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone whose hard work paid off…</p>
<p>I’m hoping to be another success story. I was one of the worst students in high school because I simply didn’t care. Hopefully that will all change by the time December rolls around.</p>
<p>You guys are inspiring. It makes me nervous and excited and it gives me hopes that I soon will joining you guys success stories. :)</p>
<p>I have an 84.87 average right now, (2.98 GPA). Planning to get it up to 3.0-3.1 at graduation. Senior year courses: English 7, Partgovernment, AP Psychology, Spanish 7H, and Precalculus.</p>
<p>Bookmarked this page. :)</p>
<p>Bro had a 3.5 from Rice, all he cared was about partying. Graduated bottom 50%. Got rejected to every law school he applied to, except Rutgers and Seton Hall.
Took like a year or two off for his teaching in Biology and Chemistry in middle school and tenth graders.
Went to Seton Hall for a year, got a 3.67 GPA, and is now at George Washington Law School. From 95-100th place to 28th.</p>
<p>I also hope i can be another success stories like many of these, i was a horrible student in highschool to me it was merely a fashion show, my gpa was probably a 1.4ish, scored a 1240/1600 SAT. Got kicked out my senior year for excessive absences, but then got my GED about 2 weeks after that. Now 4 years later im in my third semester at a Community College with a 3.2, hopefully once i transfer out they wont look at my high school transcripts…</p>
<p>im loving this thread! 
Congratulations to everyone of you guys… i am in the same situation… well kind of … im a senior in highschool who’s a “slacker” and now i realize that i need to take education more seriously… so im hoping to turn my thing around when i go to CC… and HOPEFULLY! one day i wll write my successful story in this thread lol :)</p>
<p>I am also a senior in high school and I must say I am also
one of those students who have a “bad HS record.” My GPA
is seriously mediocre…3.31 GPA x.x </p>
<p>At this rate, I do not think I will get accepted to any universities I applied for.
But after reading this thread I have found the drive to study again.
Thank you so much and if there is ever a time where I find the need to slack
I will definitely look at this thread for inspiration. </p>
<p>Good job those of you who have improved on themselves!
We are all capable of the things we find “impossible.”</p>
<p>I am definitely a high school slacker. Still applying to cornell ED though for fall 2010. I will in all likleyhood be rejected. I attended cornells summer program over the summer and it invigorated me as a student. I realized how exciting learning, reading, and knowing can all be. I realized the importance of intelligent conversation and surrounding yourself with good influences. I ditched all my old High school friends, but have no regrets even while my social life is lacking. I am confident in my abilities to kick ass this year and if I don’t get into cornell, I will kick ass again next year, and I wont stop kicking ass until I am at that school, not a worse school,m not a better school, it MUST be cornell. This thread gave me hope, and I will definitely be graduating from cornell in 2014- I may even go for grad school, that place is ****in awesome.</p>
<p>hi… ummm this has nothing to do with the conversation right now but i saw that a lot of people were in here and replying… i need help… i submitted my UC application and i requested for them to bill me…i don’t want my application to be delayed so do i pay now or wait for the bill?</p>
<p>I’d like to share my story about watching all my friends in high school graduate from the bleachers, because I failed out and had to go to Corrections School in order to fix my GPA just to graduate. My cumulative GPA my Junior year was a 0.67. My senior year I raised it to a paltry 1.0. To my high school teachers, I was the “should have”. All the potential in the world with zero motivation. I would literally leave my classes for restroom breaks to check up on my girlfriend and make sure she wasn’t talking to other guys. Didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, didn’t care. I sat there, in tears, finally realizing as I saw my best friend being handed his diploma, that I missed out.</p>
<p>Messed around for about 6-7 years, basically amounting to nothing. I just worked, dated and was a consumer.</p>
<p>Came back to Community College last year after my best friend died from a brain aneurysm. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t live another day denying my dreams, because at any time I can have those dreams snatched away from me. </p>
<p>For two consecutive semesters, I was a 4.0 student with Dean’s List awards. When I received my first Dean’s List award, I sat on the couch in my living room and cried. It was the first time I had gotten straight A’s since Kindergarten. Every obstacle you can think of, tried to take these dreams away from me: My girlfriend cheated on me, my car engine exploded on the freeway on the way to a final for Biology, I lost my job, my family is leaving, one of my closest friends had a nervous breakdown and is in a mental clinic. I just soldiered on. </p>
<p>When the car broke down, I hitched a ride. When my girlfriend cheated, I hid my emotions and focused on school. My family’s leaving, I’m moving into a room for rent. I lost my job, I fix computers on the side to pay bills. My friend is gone, I put it behind me.</p>
<p>I’m on my way to a third semester in a row with a 4.0 and just submit my application to UC Berkeley, San Diego, Davis and Irvine. Planning on finishing my last semester at a TAP certified school and doing my last 15 units in honors to get my TAP. I may even attend UCSD for only one year and then apply to Cornell, UPenn or Washington in St. Louis.</p>
<p>My major is Bio-Engineering. I want to study tissue engineering for degenerative diseases so I can prevent people from having to suffer the same loss I experienced last year. I come from a family of low academic achievers too. I had to literally figure out for myself what works in college and what doesn’t because I had no one to run to for help. </p>
<p>The best advice I can give someone is to realize the big picture. Life sucks for everyone. That’s just how the world is. Success is about managing to get things done anyway.</p>
<p>Don’t ever let anyone tell you you can’t go somewhere or do something you want to do. Don’t ever let anyone tell you it’s too late or you’re too old. Life is what you make out of it and the only person who has to live with you failing, is yourself.</p>