My problem with college is, I have to go somewhere that sounds impressive enough for my parents without being expensive or far away, because my parents have two other kids to pay for.
I only have a 3.5 GPA as of the end of my sophomore year (stupid math grades brought me down-- I'm literally a math idiot), but I should have at least a 3.7 unweighted by the end of junior year, and Fairfax County has a different grading scale where an A starts at 94% rather than 90%, so grades are lower here... plus my parents make me enter every academic contest and merit contest thing ever, so I have a lot of time-wasting accomplishments and awards and I'm in like a million honor societies. My PSAT scores were bizarrely high, so I'll probably be a national merit scholar, and I guess that means my SAT scores will be pretty good. I'm the least motivated student ever, but I guess on paper, I look accomplished.
So I don't think my parents would want me to apply to VCU, because I know someone who only had a 2.8 and got accepted. Plus, someone we know got mugged there last month! Problem is, my grades aren't good enough to apply to a really selective school, so it looks like UMW is one of the only schools that fits somewhere around there GPA-wise and is also inexpensive.
This is why I hate thinking about college!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Updated On: 3/26/09 at 10:01 PM