<p>interesting topic, I read through some of the posts</p>
<p>I was wondering though, a question to all who have been in this situation, how better off are you than the top students at your high school?</p>
<p>Why did you do better in college than in high school?</p>
<p>I think its a matter of maturity. Also, once you hit community college, it’s either you perform well or not. It’s the last line of defense before either a job or a four year college.</p>
<p>I’m still thinking about taking Suffolk up on their offer, although it is not the school that I want to attend.</p>
<p>Tufts denied me.</p>
<p>U Mass Boston told me to expect a decision in the mail next week. This school has the major that I want, and is the only school in the Boston area that offers the minor that I want, but I really do not want to go to this school.</p>
<p>I am still waiting on URI, but primarily just to know. I already put a deposit down on an apartment in Boston.</p>
<p>My other option is to wait a year and reapply to schools in the area.</p>
<p>very impressive</p>
<p>I remember reading over this thread two years ago after getting rejected from everywhere except one. My high school gpa was around a 2.5, and I had very few ECs. </p>
<p>So I went to a small 4yr private university, where after tremendous effort, I made a 4.0 through all my four semesters there as an engineering major. I also worked as a TA for introductory CS class and tutored Math (Precalc to Linear Algebra). I knew this was my last chance to climb up to a better college, so I studied desperately like never before. I’m glad I did because now I have great options ahead of me. </p>
<p>I was accepted recently to:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley EECS (Out-of-state)
UCLA (Out-of-state)
Cornell Engineering
WUSTL
USC </p>
<p>I will attend either Cornell or Berkeley.</p>
<p>^ that is very inspiring</p>
<p>Congrats on Columbia and the other schools LeekIs. Columbia was my top, but i’m happy with Vanderbilt. I basically have the same story as you, except I had a 2.9 GPA in hs and went to a CC. Im glad to see everyone has changed their lives for the better.</p>
<p>MIT research indicated that some people who overperformed in High School tend to slack off in College. The energy functioned towards the human brain has its limit and the hormone would receive the message of the appropriate balance for homeostasis and the stop-continuation theory. There are many factors such as critical analyzation and the physical neurotransmitters sent in the body that allow us to perform at certain rates. However, there are others who have involved themselves in traumatic events that lead them to finally divide and conquer the bad side of reciprocal determinism of the self-insight to its alternative. Congratulations to everyone who had been admitted on this forum, especially LeekIs.</p>
<p>It was easier in college for me, mainly because I had somewhat of a freedom in choosing the courses I am good at. Being an ESL, English was always what dropped my GPA in high school. In college, however, I focused at Math/Science/Engineering courses, which I aced. I just had to stay for 2 years to compensate for the mediocre HS stats to be competitive for the top schools.</p>
<p>I have a family friend who was a mediocre student in high school. He went to UC Riverside for two years, worked hard, and got into UCLA two years later.
He says that while he enjoyed what UCLA had to offer to him, he regretted transferring because he left behind all his friends and it was hard for him to make new ones.</p>
<p>I dropped out of High School in 10th grade, went back and graduated from a continuation and now I’m transferring to UCSC from my community college. I call that a success considering.</p>