Why even try

notquitesure wrote:

Junior, had 4.0 freshman and sophomore year.

Always done well in school, decent at running.

Work way to hard and get nothing, ill have 5 ap's after this year, taking 2 this year, got 4, 4, 5, I expect to get either 4 or 5 on these next 2, so decent, but not outstanding..

Have almost all a's right now, a couple of B+'s, but still a long time left in the semesters..

Why try in school, does it even pay off, its just high school, its hard to do these stupid assignments and do what they want when there is no point, its just stupid, what is getting a 4.0 gonna get me? It wont get me into a good school

4.0 and a good ACT will get you hella scholarships automatically at private colleges that will bring the price down to public college levels. That's how I go to a 40,000$ a year school for 16000$ a year. That's $8000 a semester, I get $4,500 in loans from the gov a semester, 750$ in grants (that's like a small gov scholarship) a semester, and my dad is good for the remaining $2750ish 2x a year. So I go there "for free" knowing I'll have loans to pay off later.

What would you consider a good ACT score?

33 and up is good, idk i feel pretty confident based on practices, ill be by 34ish

notquitesure wrote:

Junior, had 4.0 freshman and sophomore year.

Always done well in school, decent at running.

Work way to hard and get nothing, ill have 5 ap's after this year, taking 2 this year, got 4, 4, 5, I expect to get either 4 or 5 on these next 2, so decent, but not outstanding..

Have almost all a's right now, a couple of B+'s, but still a long time left in the semesters..

Why try in school, does it even pay off, its just high school, its hard to do these stupid assignments and do what they want when there is no point, its just stupid, what is getting a 4.0 gonna get me? It wont get me into a good school

There are good schools which can give you full scholarships based on those credentials. Who told you it won't get you into a good school? They don't know what they are talking about.

Nothing is guaranteed, but top grades are 80% of what good colleges are looking for.

everyone has those though, like i cant get into an ivy without killer extra curricular, it just seems so stupid to try, i always laughed at people who couldn't motivate themselves, but im having serious lack of motivation

How much would it help someone for scholarships if you graduated high school with their AA. Would that be looked upon better than passing AP classes?

what is AA

notquitesure wrote:

disgraceful_admin wrote:

There are good schools which can give you full scholarships based on those credentials. Who told you it won't get you into a good school? They don't know what they are talking about.

Nothing is guaranteed, but top grades are 80% of what good colleges are looking for.

everyone has those though, like i cant get into an ivy without killer extra curricular, it just seems so stupid to try, i always laughed at people who couldn't motivate themselves, but im having serious lack of motivation

Start focusing on the grades over the bs work, remember finishing the work quickly is the goal while making it as low of quality as possible to still not look suspicious. I have a 4.35( W) gpa, 3.8 UW and having taken 7 AP classes+countless Honors( 15+), mostly A's and a few B's. I've spent maybe 100 hours total on Homework over 4 years( I'm a senior) and that includes summer work, so that averages out to less than 20 mins a day( although 90% of the time I don't do any homework at home). I learned that getting good grades is simply learning how to BS the system, know the structure of the class and know what work you need to do and not do. Remember, it's a game( as are many things in life) and you need to learn the game. You can finish all your homework during school if you learn how to rush and cram and fit it in during BS classes, etc. It will be much easier if you do it during school. I wish you luck OP.

An AA is an Associate Degree. Takes two years and is under a bachelor degree.

thanks, honestly i would have told myself that last year, i had that same philosophy. School was a game, it was easy to get by with doing nothing, but now im constantly confused, not with the material, but with these BS assignments and they are taking me longer to do, its no longer a game and if it is a game im not having any fun. I did probably 2 hours of homework a week freshman and sophomore year, but now its way more.

notquitesure wrote:

thanks, honestly i would have told myself that last year, i had that same philosophy. School was a game, it was easy to get by with doing nothing, but now im constantly confused, not with the material, but with these BS assignments and they are taking me longer to do, its no longer a game and if it is a game im not having any fun. I did probably 2 hours of homework a week freshman and sophomore year, but now its way more.

Yeah I got you, I understand how frustrating it can be and annoying especially when you realize how much time you're wasting. With these confusing assignments, usually the teacher has a specific style/type of assignment they give, once you learn the structure you can figure out how to bs it and make it good enough to turn in, also learn your teachers grading style, that'll help you also see how much you can get away with doing/ not doing. Another thing is usually teachers take up a certain type of assignment over another and there may be one assignment that they always have as "just practice" that isn't necessary but is guised as homework, learn what those are and you can cut them out.

Yeah thanks, I think looking at the grading. I never care about my binder and my ap bio teacher does binder checks and i keep failing them (i get high a's on the tests, so now i keep going from low a to high b) so im like ok i have to spend time actually taking the notes and putting them in my binder and stuff that i shouldnt have to worry about in an ap class

You can bs your way through high school (I did), but good study habits are important when you get to college. If you learn them now, it will save you a lot of pain your first year in college.

notquitesure wrote:

Junior, had 4.0 freshman and sophomore year.

Always done well in school, decent at running.

Work way to hard and get nothing, ill have 5 ap's after this year, taking 2 this year, got 4, 4, 5, I expect to get either 4 or 5 on these next 2, so decent, but not outstanding..

Have almost all a's right now, a couple of B+'s, but still a long time left in the semesters..

Why try in school, does it even pay off, its just high school, its hard to do these stupid assignments and do what they want when there is no point, its just stupid, what is getting a 4.0 gonna get me? It wont get me into a good school

"Work way to [sic] hard"

"its [sic] just high school, its [sic] hard to do these stupid assignments and do what they want when there is no point, its [sic] just stupid"

You are getting excellent grades, especially for one who makes such a shoddily constructed post.

I am 54. I think more is expected of high schoolers now than when I was a high schooler (I completed high school in 1980), and the Internet or its forerunners were virtually unknown then, yet I cannot recall ever making such a bungle of a short passage as you've done here.

Ok so you pointed out i said to instead of too, as if that makes someone smart, everyone knows how to use two too and to, sorry if I was typing and make a mistake lol.

yes its only gets an apostrophe when its a contraction, got it but i already knew that...again same mistake 3 times, typing apostrophes is time consuming and you get my drift..

Basically you corrected really basic things that everyone knows... thanks?

tru dis

notquitesure wrote:

Junior, had 4.0 freshman and sophomore year.

Always done well in school, decent at running.

Work way to hard and get nothing, ill have 5 ap's after this year, taking 2 this year, got 4, 4, 5, I expect to get either 4 or 5 on these next 2, so decent, but not outstanding..

Have almost all a's right now, a couple of B+'s, but still a long time left in the semesters..

Why try in school, does it even pay off, its just high school, its hard to do these stupid assignments and do what they want when there is no point, its just stupid, what is getting a 4.0 gonna get me? It wont get me into a good school

Back off on the weed and see if anything changes.

Think of it as building your base for harder academic stuff. Running is an analogy to many parts of life.

notquitesure wrote:

Ok so you pointed out i said to instead of too, as if that makes someone smart, everyone knows how to use two too and to, sorry if I was typing and make a mistake lol.

yes its only gets an apostrophe when its a contraction, got it but i already knew that...again same mistake 3 times, typing apostrophes is time consuming and you get my drift..

Basically you corrected really basic things that everyone knows... thanks?

Infinite regress.... He corrected you for something minor while complimenting you somewhat. Your complaining about his correction seems even pettier.

Moi? I'm not complaining.