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[JerzDevil]

If you had to spit our your biggest regret you've ever made in your life, what would it be? Well here's my big regretful story. During freshman year in HS, I failed a lot, did a lot of slacking because I never took freshman year seriously. I was pissed until I found out colleges look at your freshman grades too. (I didn't know that before) ... but it was too late after I found out. By that time, freshman year was already over. I failed like 3 courses. Now last year f**ks up my chances of going into a decent 4-year college. I always thought before I started my freshman year that freshman year is just a motha f**kin warm-up and colleges don't care about that freshman year bullshit. That has to be my biggest regret. f**king up freshman year (kind of purposely)

Second would be: Spending all my paper in one day. SMH

[JerzDevil]

Man, y'all don't know how much I regret my freshman year shit. I wish someone could've f**king told me college looked at your freshman grades. I've always thought freshman year grades and results don't count .. so I was like "blah it's freshman year. college ain't gonna look at that year anyways when i apply. might as well just have fun this year etc" ...... and like 10 days after my freshman year ends, i find out ...... just breaking me off. what the hell was i thinking?

[jaeman]

Man, y'all don't know how much I regret my freshman year shit. I wish someone could've f**king told me college looked at your freshman grades. I've always thought freshman year grades and results don't count .. so I was like "blah it's freshman year. college ain't gonna look at that year anyways when i apply. might as well just have fun this year etc" ...... and like 10 days after my freshman year ends, i find out ...... just breaking me off. what the hell was i thinking?

You could apply for online classes at BYU and redo those freshman courses you failed. Because one good thing about these online classes is that when you pass them with say, a B, your failing grade is totally replaced with that B. Which is good so there's no trace of a failing grade, anywhere.

And wouldn't it make sense for colleges to look at your freshman year? I mean, when you apply amidst your junior and senior year, the transcripts you'll be sending in have freshman, sophomore and junior year, because you haven't finished senior year. Then when you get admitted, you send your final transcript which has your senior year grades on it.

Don't get me wrong, some colleges don't look at freshman year course grades. Some colleges mainly look at your sophomore and junior year.

naw community college? what the hell? my parents ain't gonna be dumb enough to pay my tuition/fee or whatever the hell it's called for a COMMUNITY COLLEGE ... they told me. they said going to a regular, decent 4-year college is a MUST for me .... or they're just gonna lose interest and send me to the navy or some shit. f**k, i wish i could bring back the beginning of september 2006 and start all over. luckily for my cousin tho he went to a community college somewhere located in the OC ... did well and he transferred to one of the CSU Colleges ... but for me, it ain't gonna happen.

At that same time, that's a good ambition for parents and their child. But you have to be careful about this because, theoretically, if you messed up classes in your freshman year, you're bound to do that in college. Colleges are going to see that and they'll definitely throw your application in the rejected basket.

That kind of attitude towards community colleges is totally wrong. The smartest graduates to ever have graduated from private institutions like USC have been transfers from community colleges. Afterall, just think, it doesn't matter where you started college, what matters is where you're going to get your college diploma.

Money is also a big issue. Just think smart, not image-wise as Hollywood and most of society revolves around today. Think about how much money you could save in community college for things like a car, clothes, or whatever you're passionate about. Or, if you're even smarter, save that money to go to a high-end private institution. Transfers are the biggest things in the college life. I really hate it when high school students choose their colleges based on the image they'll get. College is college, do what you have to, not what society thinks looks good.