So i'm sitting in my first hour class, sitting next a friend of mine, lets call him nate. He was talking about how he was accepted to a school just across the border in minnesota, this is the school that I too would like to attend in the next year. A bit of a backrount on ol nate, this kid had done tons of drugs, grass, powders, cid, shrooms, blah blah blah, alcohol and tobacco products as well. He has spend most of high school in the resource center because he is a little "slow", he probably has some sort of learning disability but his parents never bothered to get him tested. He gets average grades, C's B's an occasional D or F. Then there is me, I too get about the same grades as him, never have had to go into the resource center to get help or anything like that, I personaly don't feel that one should be evaluated on grades therefor never really cared about them. All of the computer related classes that I am in are 4.0's all the way though, that might say something, might not. I have had a job working as a IT and webmaster for a local real estate company for the past 4 years. While nate on the other hand bags groceries, he has also had a minor or two (i cannot remember and a dui). I go to apply for the same college and haven't heard a word from them, I honestly don't expect to either.
Here is what really burns me, Is that a college can look at someones application and see that they got a 3.5 gpa all the way though high school so that automatically makes them able to go to their school, without knowing a thing about that person. My guess is that when my application was looked over the person saw my 2.0 and threw it in the garbage. How much does one really learn when they have to spend their entire high school career worrying if they got that a or not if they are going to be able to keep their 4.0 . I am probably one of the few that can sit here and admit that I have learned something in high school, that I can apply to my everyday life and that I will always remember.
Maybe it is just me, pouting over the fact that I didn't get into the school that I would've liked to, it really isn't that big of a deal, I'm going to a school no less than a mile away from the one previously mentioned, for the exact same thing. I just wish that a college would look at who a person really is and not some stupid numbers on some paper that really don't mean much of anything.
Here is what really burns me, Is that a college can look at someones application and see that they got a 3.5 gpa all the way though high school so that automatically makes them able to go to their school, without knowing a thing about that person. My guess is that when my application was looked over the person saw my 2.0 and threw it in the garbage. How much does one really learn when they have to spend their entire high school career worrying if they got that a or not if they are going to be able to keep their 4.0 . I am probably one of the few that can sit here and admit that I have learned something in high school, that I can apply to my everyday life and that I will always remember.
Maybe it is just me, pouting over the fact that I didn't get into the school that I would've liked to, it really isn't that big of a deal, I'm going to a school no less than a mile away from the one previously mentioned, for the exact same thing. I just wish that a college would look at who a person really is and not some stupid numbers on some paper that really don't mean much of anything.
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