What is your opinion on my education..."problem"?

[Awakened Sin]

Well. Awakened Sin here. I'm not know but I browse the forums here and there. I copied this from a yahoo question I posted. So bare with me!

I am a junior in high school and I have a 2.2 GPA. I know I wont be able to get into a four year so that's why I'm going to community college after high school. Anyways I have a 2.2 GPA so most people would think I'm dumb or lazy. I have AP classes on my transcript. And I'm taking AP Lit., AP Computer Science, and maybe AP World History next year. Sophomore year I got a D+ and a C for my AP Us History grade which on a 5.0 scale is a C+ and B. Though I never took notes or studied for my tests in that class including finals. I'm currently in AP European History. Reason why I take AP classes is because normal classes are boring and too slow. I got B's for History Freshman year and I never studied for that class. It was...too easy. I just got a 112% on a Chemistry test worth 100 points. Many people think I'm smart, but I tell them I'm not. I am involved with Journalism Club and I've been told I write well. (Of course I'm not trying on here too much work lol) I don't know if I consider myself smart. I use the excuse that I'm just lazy. The thing is I go try hard at my job. My co workers and managers love me because I'm a hard worker. I do things at work that I'm not even told to do so I can keep myself occupied. Helping co workers, customers, etc. I give 110% at my job. What are your guys opinion?

[Thunderstorm]

You seem like a very hard working, sophisticated student. I think your low gpa is a result of too many hard classes. You're taking several AP's and trying, yet you can't get above a C. On the contrary, you've taken regular freshman history and are currently enrolled in chemistry and have received above a B. I get what you are saying about regular level classes being too boring, but fi you got a B in Freshman History, you obviously had room for improvement for an A. Unless you are trying as hard as you can, which means you need to find a happy medium. If you are overloading with hard classes, clubs and a job, you won't be reaching your full potential. Maybe drop one of the AP classes, and lighten your load. Sometimes it's better to have a high gpa and easy classes than a low gpa and hard classes. In the end, colleges only care about numbers. You could still go to a four year school if you really wanted to, however I wouldn't get your hopes up for any big name schools.

[conniption]

Like Thunderstorm said, your low grades don't seem to be a result of you being lazy or dumb, they're because of a work overload. It'd probably be in your best interest to drop one or two classes so that you're able to focus more on others. It's better you take a few AP classes and do great in them than take a bunch of AP classes and get almost failing grades. I think if you drop a couple of classes and really pour your effort into the ones you keep, then you should have a 2.5 GPA at the very least by the time you graduate.

[Awakened Sin]

You seem like a very hard working, sophisticated student. I think your low gpa is a result of too many hard classes. You're taking several AP's and trying, yet you can't get above a C. On the contrary, you've taken regular freshman history and are currently enrolled in chemistry and have received above a B. I get what you are saying about regular level classes being too boring, but fi you got a B in Freshman History, you obviously had room for improvement for an A. Unless you are trying as hard as you can, which means you need to find a happy medium. If you are overloading with hard classes, clubs and a job, you won't be reaching your full potential. Maybe drop one of the AP classes, and lighten your load. Sometimes it's better to have a high gpa and easy classes than a low gpa and hard classes. In the end, colleges only care about numbers. You could still go to a four year school if you really wanted to, however I wouldn't get your hopes up for any big name schools. Well like I said I got a C in AP US History because I never studied for the tests and didnt take notes. Did I really try hard in that class? No. I've also only taken two ap classes so far. One this year and one last year. So it isn't the work load. Also At the time I only worked weekends to give myself time for school during the week. Also Journalism Club only meet like once a week. I do not think it's the work load killing me. I want to say that IM lazy and that's what is killing me but, I'm only lazy at school/home. Never never am I lazy at work. I could go ot a four year but I'd rather just have a clean slate so either way Im going to community college after high school. The four years that would accept me with that GPA no offense probably will be lacking things.

[Thunderstorm]

Well like I said I got a C in AP US History because I never studied for the tests and didnt take notes. Did I really try hard in that class? No. I've also only taken two ap classes so far. One this year and one last year. So it isn't the work load. Also At the time I only worked weekends to give myself time for school during the week. Also Journalism Club only meet like once a week. I do not think it's the work load killing me. I want to say that IM lazy and that's what is killing me but, I'm only lazy at school/home. Never never am I lazy at work. I could go ot a four year but I'd rather just have a clean slate so either way Im going to community college after high school. The four years that would accept me with that GPA no offense probably will be lacking things.

You said you are taking AP Lit and AP Comp. Sci which is two, and AP World next year. It seems you are lazy at home which affects how much you study and prepare for tests and school the next day. That's why you aren't getting the grades you wanted. Is a C bad in APUSH without studying? No, that's what I would have if I didn't study. However, you would have an A if you did study. I have a 100 in APUSH right now because I study for everything, at home and in school. You have to go above and beyond. You can not go through life without doing some extra work.

[Awakened Sin]

You said you are taking AP Lit and AP Comp. Sci which is two, and AP World next year. It seems you are lazy at home which affects how much you study and prepare for tests and school the next day. That's why you aren't getting the grades you wanted. Is a C bad in APUSH without studying? No, that's what I would have if I didn't study. However, you would have an A if you did study. I have a 100 in APUSH right now because I study for everything, at home and in school. You have to go above and beyond. You can not go through life without doing some extra work. I agree completely with you but the thing is I do extra work. All the time at my job. So it's I dont know...That's what I just wanted to say.

[Magenta]

Your job is active, it's engaging, it's working hard for actual gain.

School is boring. You sit through a boring, easy class that is so slow it feels like each period takes three hours instead of one. You know the work is easy enough to do, you just can't be bothered because it's just that: easy. Why bother doing something that's boring as hell, right? So you go home, don't bother because it's still not anymore interesting.

Sound at all familiar? Because that was me in high school. I am a straight A student. Or I was until I started letting my grades drop to Cs and Ds because I was bored. I didn't take notes and didn't study because the material was too easy. I didn't do well on exams not because I needed to study or didn't know the material (I have an eidetic memory), it was just too much effort to write a load of bullshit to appease a teacher when I really wasn't getting anything out of it. I loathed school. I was an above average student in a mainstream program. I was doing high school work in middle school but when I went into high school, they made me repeat everything. Of course I didn't want to do it.

But I had choir and clubs and they were engaging and I was moving about and they required me to do something. So the hard work was there, I just needed to be engaged in what I was doing.

I actually do think you're smart and I don't think workload or harder coursework has anything to do with your low GPA. I think you're bored. And I think that actually taking more harder courses might be good for you and you'll excel in them. You're not lazy, you just don't have the same motivation for schoolwork as you do for the work you do for your job. And I completely understand it because that's how I was in high school.

I finished grade 10 with a 98% in academic English (highest level English class where I'm from) and the highest mark in my entire grade. I also took five years to finish high school. One is really great, one is not. It just goes to show that you can be a really smart student and still flunk out.

[Jaseblader]

Well. Awakened Sin here. I'm not know but I browse the forums here and there. I copied this from a yahoo question I posted. So bare with me!

I am a junior in high school and I have a 2.2 GPA. I know I wont be able to get into a four year so that's why I'm going to community college after high school. Anyways I have a 2.2 GPA so most people would think I'm dumb or lazy. I have AP classes on my transcript. And I'm taking AP Lit., AP Computer Science, and maybe AP World History next year. Sophomore year I got a D+ and a C for my AP Us History grade which on a 5.0 scale is a C+ and B. Though I never took notes or studied for my tests in that class including finals. I'm currently in AP European History. Reason why I take AP classes is because normal classes are boring and too slow. I got B's for History Freshman year and I never studied for that class. It was...too easy. I just got a 112% on a Chemistry test worth 100 points. Many people think I'm smart, but I tell them I'm not. I am involved with Journalism Club and I've been told I write well. (Of course I'm not trying on here too much work lol) I don't know if I consider myself smart. I use the excuse that I'm just lazy. The thing is I go try hard at my job. My co workers and managers love me because I'm a hard worker. I do things at work that I'm not even told to do so I can keep myself occupied. Helping co workers, customers, etc. I give 110% at my job. What are your guys opinion?

good memory but lazy... Nothing to it just that