BAD GPA PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Hi,
My name is Taraji St.Fleur and my GPA isn't good at all. I honestly have no idea what to do. I've been struggling throughout high school and haven't taken it a seriously as I should've but now I know what I want to do and that is to become a lawyer but I need to get into a good college please send help and advice!
Thank you
Taraji St.Fleur
I'm actually not sure if this correct- you should confirm with your counselor, but of course start taking your grades seriously from this point forward. You might be able to go to a community college instead and then transfer to a 4 year, and I believe that when you transfer to the 4 year they will look at your community college grades instead of your high school ones.
Thank you very much. I have talked to my counselor and I've been taking college course classes once in tenth grade and I'm taking a criminal justices course right now. I've been doing really good this year my lowest grade is a 75 this year. I have a scholarship to my local community college but I've been putting it off for a while but I'll take your advice seriously
I would take a college entrance exam. They can use that as a better measure of your ability than your GPA, as they did for me.
Thank you! Would you mind explaining to me What and how I can best prepare for that please?
You should definitely get a tutor, if it is available. You should also make sure you have the ACT My Answer Key if you take the ACT. I personally just got an ACT guidebook and studied directly from that, which got me a 32 on the ACT.
Depending on how bad your GPA (I'm thinking less than a 2.7) is, your only hope may be ECs and how good your application is. Find as many law-related programs, groups and projects you can do over the summer and beginning of senior year and make them as impactful as possible. Apply early decision to your dream school and early action to your second dream school. Use your essays to show how to plan to behave going forward and how your experiences will help you be a better student. If your GPA is better than I was imagining, see if you can do summer classes or even college classes during the summer (kill two birds with one stone). Let me know if you have any questions!
Okay thank you! I definitely well try my hardest would you mind recommending me some programs specifically?
There are some at top schools (Harvard, Yale, etc) but you just find an internship or job shadow to do in your area. You could work with some law students with their projects (research or just being some sort of assistant)
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