I seriously messed up my freshman and sophomore year ... if i do really well junior year, can i get in?

Question

my gpa freshman year was a 1.78. my gpa soph year was a 1.87. if i do really well junior year (which i can) like a 3.8 gpa and keep it up through senior year, can i get into a decent 4 year university? like uconn, njit, rutgers, etc.

Answer 1

Ucon and Rutgers?? definitely not.. But a good 4 year university maybe.. I did similar to you all 4 years of high school.. I would really try going to a community college for a year and then transferring. I did so and now i'm at a prestigious university.

Answer 2

if you can get your overall gpa up to 2.0, you can get accepted only to a state university and on probation, but that doesn't always work so aim for an overall gpa that is higher than 2.5

good luck

Answer 3

While your junior year showed a vast improvement (and congrats on the hard work), I'm afraid your first two years have pretty much put a halt on getting into UConn or Rudgers.

If you can maintain as high a GPA your senior year as you did junior, you definitely have a good chance at getting into a state university.

But if the schools you mentioned are REALLY where you want to be, then I would suggest going to a community college, getting an associates degree (or enough credits to get in as a transfer student) and then applying to those schools. That way they will only look at your community college transcripts and the fact that you messed those first two years of high school up won't even matter.

Plus in all honesty, the classes you'll be taking those first two years of college are all virtually the same, and you'll be paying WAY less at a community college than you would a 4 year university.

Answer 4

nope unfortunately not, becasue i'm a sophomore and i went my counselor told me that a student similar to you messed up their first 2 year and that even if they got all a's on their report card they could barely bring up their gpa. They had a 2.0 or something like that. and if your's is lower than that . You have to take like 20 classes to bring it up to be accepted especially by a four year college.

Maybe a community college is gonna accept you.

But a four year college looks at your individual yaers too not just your overall gpa.

so good luck.

you''ll neeed it.

Answer 5

By all accounts, yo are academic probation. This will NOT help!

If you get through your 4 year degree, you will want to go into a masters program yes? is that what you mean? If so, you might wish to explore how the university system is organized a bit better.