Schools out!!

[av7]

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Nope. A 2.0 is good, if you ask me. And it is really easy to get a 2.0 too. I will say it here and I really mean this. College is not for everyone. If I was getting a 2.0 in HS; I would be looking for a trade career. The key thing is you need to be looking now. You are never too young to start planning your career.

A 2.0 is good? You just have to be alive and scribble down words on a paper to manage a 2.0..

[Cebby]

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Nope. A 2.0 is good, if you ask me. And it is really easy to get a 2.0 too. I will say it here and I really mean this. College is not for everyone. If I was getting a 2.0 in HS; I would be looking for a trade career. The key thing is you need to be looking now. You are never too young to start planning your career.

A 2.0 is a joke.

A 3.0 is decent. A 3.5 is "good." A weighted 4.0+ is where I'd actually start using positive adjectives for anyone I actually cared about.

[auburntigersfan]

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I know plenty of people at my school that have had gpa's around 2.0 and gotten into all the in-state universities, and quite a few out of state public universities.

I've got a 3.5 right now, but my act was 31 last December, so I think I've got a decent shot at getting into a good school. My HS is really tough, though. In my English and Humanities class last year literally only 2 out of the 16 students got A's, and they were suck-ups. I'm not gonna suck up to a teacher, even if it is for a little better grade.

It's all relative, a 2.0 at a public school is pretty ****ty, but at a really hard private school it isn't all too bad.

[auburntigersfan]

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A 2.0 is a joke.

A 3.0 is decent. A 3.5 is "good." A weighted 4.0+ is where I'd actually start using positive adjectives for anyone I actually cared about.

It's all relative, Cebby.

I know guys that had 3.5's and gotten into and excelled at Ivy League schools.

[Cebby]

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It's all relative, Cebby.

I know guys that had 3.5's and gotten into and excelled at Ivy League schools.

Which Ivy League schools?

Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth are Ivy League schools like getting a football scholarship to Kentucky or Vandy is a scholarship to an SEC school.

If he got into a "real" Ivy school with a 3.5 weighted, he was either some super minority hybrid (which, being from OK, I'd imagine you know a decent amount of Native Americans) or had a 1600 SAT score.

[Speedy]

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I know plenty of people at my school that have had gpa's around 2.0 and gotten into all the in-state universities, and quite a few out of state public universities.

If they have no athleticism they definately aren't going on scholarship.

[auburntigersfan]

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Which Ivy League schools?

Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth are Ivy League schools like getting a football scholarship to Kentucky or Vandy is a scholarship to an SEC school.

If he got into a "real" Ivy school with a 3.5 weighted, he was either some super minority hybrid (which, being from OK, I'd imagine you know a decent amount of Native Americans) or had a 1600 SAT score.

2 to Princeton, 1 to Penn with about 3.5 gpas, maybe 3.6.

I know another that got to Penn that had a 4.0, and I know a girl who is currently attending Yale that had about a 3.7.

It's all kind of a crapshoot. One of my best friends' brother had a 4.0 unweighted, 34 ACT, played football, made movies, an all-around great player, you would that he wouldn't have much of a problem getting into colleges.
He got rejected at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and ended up doing to Dartmouth.

[Cebby]

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2 to Princeton, 1 to Penn with about 3.5 gpas, maybe 3.6.

Who were these kids getting into Princeton with 3.5 weighted GPAs?

Their average was 3.83 according to Yahoo.

[duke776]

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A weighted 4.0+ is where I'd actually start using positive adjectives for anyone I actually cared about.

This is what got my brother a scholarship(half of tuition paid for). The sad thing is I was probably smart enough to get that too, but too many personal issues got in the way. I've still got a 3.1 GPA though, and next year(my senior year) will probably raise it a bit because almost all classes I can get an easy A in.

[superjames1992]

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ya well my parents say that if i pass they would give me money and unground me so it gave me motivation. and thye also said if i get accepted in a collage they will pay my tuition. so next year im going to buckle down and try to get my grades higher so i can get into a collage and stuff.

If you want to make a collage, just cut out a bunch of pictures from a magazine and glue them all down on a paper, creating a piece of art (Like we did in grade school). I don't think you need to pay any tuition or what grades have to do with creating a collage, though...

we start late august too im glad my school is cool and let us get our early.

Well, you still went 180 days like I did. We just got out for more teacher workdays and such during the year.

[auburntigersfan]

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Who were these kids getting into Princeton with 3.5 weighted GPAs?

Their average was 3.83 according to Yahoo.

Do you want to meet them?

2 guys. One graduated in '07, one graduated in '08. Both were cool, well-rounded guys. I don't know what their test scores were, but they were probably pretty good. One plays football there, so was given a little preference, the other does not.

And my school has a pretty good history with that school, so it makes it a little easier. idk about any family connections, they may have had some. There are some people in my school's community with pretty strong connections to Princeton.

[Watson]

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i failed at the end of the year. didnt do ANY work. it dropped from a 3.9 to a 3.7

[pfunk880]

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Nope. A 2.0 is good, if you ask me. And it is really easy to get a 2.0 too.

Way to completely contradict yourself...

If you want to make a collage, just cut out a bunch of pictures from a magazine and glue them all down on a paper, creating a piece of art (Like we did in grade school). I don't think you need to pay any tuition or what grades have to do with creating a collage, though...

[Scottdau]

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A 2.0 is a joke.

A 3.0 is decent. A 3.5 is "good." A weighted 4.0+ is where I'd actually start using positive adjectives for anyone I actually cared about.

For some people school is hard, so why hate on a 2.0 It is passing. In fact when you graduate college jobs don't look at GPA. They look at Degrees. Any ways I say try harder next year, but 2.0 is passing.

[Scottdau]

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Way to completely contradict yourself...

How is that contradict. I am saying a 2.0 is good and easy to get. Why do you think the schools have probation with anything less than a 2.0. It is passing. You guys crack me up what was your GPA in HS? Mine was 3.2, but that really doesn't matter. The only thing I wanted to do was play sports and with a 2.0 you can do that. So if it is good enough to play sports and go to the dances then I say it is good enough for the guys on OS.