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| Elara Posts: 3901/9736 |
Ah, I see. Well, the SAT II doesn't seem to have been all that important anyway, so don't worry about it.
Ah, the summer session method. Always a good plan, and it just puts you that closer to transfering. |
| Logos Posts: 274/641 |
Originally posted by Elara Missed the November test, which was the last timeslot. And no, I go to a community college over the summer. Because it's fun. |
| Elara Posts: 3897/9736 |
Why can't you do the SAT II? Of course, I think you need the results from the first one before you do the second. I take it that you've been taking a lot of AP classes or something? |
| Logos Posts: 272/641 |
Originally posted by Elara No clue, I get it back at the end of December, but I couldn't do SAT IIs, so it probably doesn't matter even if I get in the 2200s up. Although the SATs are easy as hell and I've completed half a year of college classes, go figure. |
| Elara Posts: 3893/9736 |
So what was the results from the test? It is good to know that you feel that good about your performance. |
| Logos Posts: 263/641 |
Update: On Saturday, I flipped over an SAT Reasoning Test and attacked it for massive damage. |
| Xeios Posts: 1831/2954 |
I hope the "helpful" wasn't italicized because of sarcasm. I mean, really, theres nothing we could've done past what we did. We all tried to convince you not to give up hope. So, if you're being sarcastic about our help, you can take your self-pity and go away. |
| Logos Posts: 229/641 |
News update! The good news first: if I do in-fact get into college, I will have enough credits to skip freshman year. Bad news is my health is acting up, so close to application time. Just thought I'd let everyone know, as you've all been so helpful. |
| Elara Posts: 3761/9736 |
Is a 5.0 even possible? Highest I've ever seen is a 4.8.
And again, if you don't want to deal with SATs or GPA, then go to a community college. Sure, GPA goes into getting accepted as a transfer, but that is only because they want people with a C average or better so they know that the student isn't going to just sign up and never go to class. |
| Logos Posts: 205/641 |
Let me put it this way: I wouldn't want to be accepted because of my SAT score, becuase it's a test that doesn't really look for intelligence, but thinking a certain way. In same token, I wouldn't want to be accepted into a college because of my GPA, because the current system doesn't weigh actual college classes, whereas the easier "honors" at high school are weighted. Getting a 5.0 in such classes is the norm not the exception. Is one really doing "excellent" if everyone is doing "excellent?" How can one be above average, if everyone is above average. What the hell? |
| Elara Posts: 3753/9736 |
There are academic scholarships as well, you just need to work for them. Check out FastWeb.com, they are pretty good at finding scholarships of all types. |
| Yasu Posts: 13/513 |
Ya, come on it could be a lot worse. The one you love could be in another county. |
| Cteno Posts: 208/3416 |
Just never give up. What can you possibley accomplish that way? Even if you're getting shit on by everyone, prove them wrong. Hell, if you have to, prove yourself wrong. No matter how bad it seems, you only make it worse by having a negative attitude (and that's coming from a master pessimist).
Anyway, good luck on your goals! |
| Xeios Posts: 1675/2954 |
Logos, it was an error in which I was typing one thought, deleted(almost) all of that thought, and didn't notice the error until you pointed it out. It should have read:
"I'm not being mean, I'm treating you wiht the exact same amount of respect and adoration as you have treated everyone else in this thread and this message board. You are pessimistic, aren't all of us at times? Suck it up, things either get better or they explode in your face. C'est la Vie." |
| venomouslobster Posts: 319/444 |
Wow...i have been keeping my eye on this thread for some time, because i remember being in almost the exact place you are in during my senior year....infact my posts on the message boards i frequented at the time sounded more or less identical to yours (seems like nobody's problems are unique anymore; population saturated the market a while back, but i digress..) the best advice i can give you is to break up the idea of getting into college into its component parts. first make sure you have your transcripts all together when you leave highshcool and go directly to a community college councilor, these people will tell you for free what you need to do to get into a four year college, and they are also good for pointing you towards scholarships you are eligible for. and as long as you have your transcripts some of what you may have already taken would count for what you need to take. After that, sign up for classes, look into tutoring in the areas you arent so good at so that you can give them the old spit-shine grade-wise. Jobs are hard to come by but there is a good chance you qualify for something? ...you mentioned you refurbish computers, you could always buy old crappy computers, update them a bit and sell them on ebay...or trade them on craigslist for macaroni.... anywho the point i am trying to make here is that if look for options then they are ALWAYS there and only pessimistic thinking or a blindfold can keep you from seeing them ...(i realize i sound like a motivational poster on a school library at this point but it is true)...any situation is only what you make of it, so *shudders at the corny sounding thing i am about to say*.....make the best of it |
| Logos Posts: 195/641 |
Why would you think that? What do you mean by "You are pessimistic therefore, aren't all of us at times?"? |
| Xeios Posts: 1673/2954 |
I'm not being mean, I'm treating you wiht the exact same amount of respect and adoration as you have treated everyone else in this thread and this message board. You are pessimistic therefore, aren't all of us at times? Suck it up, things either get better or they explode in your face. C'est la Vie. |
| Logos Posts: 192/641 |
I meant that sports is without practical use in a career situation whereas Speech is not. I have no plan of dropping out of or not going to college, I'm just rather down looking at my future expectations. Don't be mean.
"I bet you didn't even apply for any scholarships, just so you could complain about not getting one. Good show, you're truly a shining example of humankind." I did. But I don't have the benefit of associations that others have, it's not exactly a original position that we as people live in. |
| Xeios Posts: 1669/2954 |
Yea, sports scholarships are a waste, but then again most academic scholarships are a waste because of people who just expect to be handed scholarships and stuff so they can drop out of college in a year and waste all the funding they would have gotten. I bet you didn't even apply for any scholarships, just so you could complain about not getting one. Good show, you're truly a shining example of humankind. |
| Logos Posts: 186/641 |
Too bad there are so many scholarships in sports, and so little in academics, when sports really doesn't have anything to do with a career for the majority, or so it would seem. So yeah, I can't do sports. |
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