To late to change my Education?

[nicknitro]

hello all here is my story..

I am a sophmore in highschool and last quarter I got a 1.9 gpa(out of 4.0) so that is very bad. Last year I mostly got the same grades give or take 2 points. Well this quarter I am going to get a 3.0 and have decided to really change my ways and start getting better grades to go to college. What I am asking is, is it to late? Is there still time for me to really get my grades up? I am in pretty bad classes right now but i am going to be in an Honors class next year. I am hoping to go to UConn. Anyone have any advice? Or experience with turning there grades around?

 

[gh0st]

hello all here is my story..

I am a sophmore in highschool and last quarter I got a 1.9 gpa(out of 4.0) so that is very bad. Last year I mostly got the same grades give or take 2 points. Well this quarter I am going to get a 3.0 and have decided to really change my ways and start getting better grades to go to college. What I am asking is, is it to late? Is there still time for me to really get my grades up? I am in pretty bad classes right now but i am going to be in an Honors class next year. I am hoping to go to UConn. Anyone have any advice? Or experience with turning there grades around?

Colleges dont care about your Freshman and Sophmore years that much. They usually chalk it up to newbs who are adjusting to a new experience. Junior year is very important to look good on your transcript, because thats usually the year before you apply (or maybe you even apply that year), so thats the first thing they see. Honors classes arent so important. Usually pure GPA is more important, but honors and AP classes are important to have anyway... so if youre going to get a B in an honors class and an A in a regular class, I'd do the regular. Honors is about working hard, you know.

If youre in a bad math class, I wouldent worry about that. If worst comes to worst, you spend 2 years in a community college or similar school, getting all the advanced college courses, and spend ther remaining 2 years of your degree in a university, UConn for example. Talk to your counselor, they usually have some good info for you, and can help you out. Good luck, just remember its NEVER too late to do better.

 

[SpuD]

btw, its "too."

 

[nicknitro]

Colleges dont care about your Freshman and Sophmore years that much. They usually chalk it up to newbs who are adjusting to a new experience. Junior year is very important to look good on your transcript, because thats usually the year before you apply (or maybe you even apply that year), so thats the first thing they see. Honors classes arent so important. Usually pure GPA is more important, but honors and AP classes are important to have anyway... so if youre going to get a B in an honors class and an A in a regular class, I'd do the regular. Honors is about working hard, you know.

If youre in a bad math class, I wouldent worry about that. If worst comes to worst, you spend 2 years in a community college or similar school, getting all the advanced college courses, and spend ther remaining 2 years of your degree in a university, UConn for example. Talk to your counselor, they usually have some good info for you, and can help you out. Good luck, just remember its NEVER too late to do better.

Thanks a lot for the advice.

 

[Neutrino]

Colleges dont care about your Freshman and Sophmore years that much. They usually chalk it up to newbs who are adjusting to a new experience.

Hmm, I don't think that's quite true. No doubt you are right to an extent, but many things do depend on your overall highschool GPA, which can be greatly affected by low performance in the first two years. However, it of course depends on what type of school one wants to get into and what scholarships one applies for. Also things like college honors programs often require quite a high GPA to get into. But there is the mitigating factor of SAT or ACT scores. If you score very high it can offset a low GPA score to a certain degree. And some things rely purely on an SAT score and don't even look at the GPA, such as some scholarships I know of.

But again, it really depends on just what type of school and what type of college programs one wants to apply for.

My advice though, would be don't sweat it. You can't change the past. But just work as hard as you can from here on out and you'll be alright. Just remember this and use it to your advantage so you can avoid this same situation when your actually applying to college.

 

[Danimal]

btw, its "too."

I can see why he needs to change his education...