I had just over a 2.0 in high school.

My SAT was scheduled for 2 weeks after I had gotten accepted to my 1st choice, which did not require an SAT score.

At one point I had like a 1.27 or something.

I have like a 3.5 weighted GPA, 31 ACT, 1910 SAT, so I'm pretty low on the totem pole at my school.

Oh sweet, numbers.

Those are all really good. He's just showing off.

Today I got a free pro bike fitting. It was an interesting 4 hours because I was stubborn and didn't just blindly accept all of the recommendations. It was still good and enjoyable. Still ended up spending $180 after for a Romin saddle, Specialized shoe inserts, and a stem.

I'm still being stubborn because I think modern saddles are ugly.

Not in an asian household :C I bet his parents give him **** for that.

Tell me about it. I hate having asian parents.

Today I received some 7800 bits in the mail for my a new geared commuter build. While cleaning up the hollowtech spindle with a paper towel I noticed there was a familiar looking florescent yellow green tinged grease. Dura Ace l00b.

Sure your GPA is a tad low but the rest looks good. Surely there would've been a UC that wanted you....
Which UC's did you apply to?

You guys applying as in-state or out of state? That actually makes a big difference because they probably have quotas to meet. So it's actually more competitive if you're in CA and want to go to a CA school, because so many people want to go to UCLA, USC, Stanford, Berkeley, etc. from out of state.

I wouldn't do the straight from HS to college route. I didn't take my SAT's either and it don't mean jack. If you don't get accepted, ef em and go to a CC and transfer. Save a lot of money and it will get you to the same place, just a different way.

I got rejected from UC Davis, Santa Cruz, and probably Irvine. I'm still waiting for their decision. I also got rejected from Cal Poly SLO. At this point, I'm going to be going to a small private school in Oregon that I got into. Pretty nice place, a tad small, but I don't think it will be too bad.

Have you thought about appealing?

I'd highly recommend you go to a CC and find a program to transfer to your selected college. You'll save a lot of money and have a little more free time to do what you want while you breeze through some generic IGETC courses.

Today my co worker told me he got a deal on a 50cm Lemond frame + fork for $100 and is going to take his 3 speed internal hub (windsor deluxe he bought from BD) and transfer it onto the lemond frame.

today i read through a bunch of posts about card games and then stared longingly at my unused collection of M:TG cards in my closet.

installed cascadia fenders

had kickass sushi and bakery goodies

received awesome wheels from mconlonx that only took 2 days to ship to my house, mounted the front wheel but i gotta get some housing to route the shifter cable so ill take care of that tomorrow

excited to get 3 hours of sleep and then ride to work in the morning with new goodies

sad that i realized i forgot to make myself food for this week and ill have to buy mall food tomorrow

Love those fenders.

Reed or the christian one(forgot the name) in the Portland area? If so, welcome and you are gonna love the amount of biking/bikes here.

George Fox. Its in Newberg.

school was never interesting or challenging for me until I was in my last 3 semesters (mostly last two) of college.

also muffin man FWIW i wasn't the best high school student and as such I didn't get into my first choice: UC Santa Cruz. My degree is from the csu analogue Humboldt State. Perhaps if I went to the UC I would have gone straight into graduate school (im going 2014) instead of getting an industry job, but I appreciate the perspective and real world experience im getting.

I dropped out of high school and managed to get into college twice with a 1540 SAT (on the old 1600 point scale). Dropped out of both colleges. School bores me. I will say though, that I wish I'd finished high school. Mostly because a 16-year-old kid with a ton of free time and a penchant for drugs and mischief isn't a good thing.

i dropped out of HS in my 2nd year, totally hated it. i smoked pot and played videogames for 2 years, got my ged and started working. 7 years later i realized that im going nowhere in the jobs i was getting and wanted a degree. now i have a 3.9 gpa in a community college and i kinda like school. ive had world class professors and complete **** ones, but im pretty sure thats gonna happen anywhere.

if i managed to finish HS like i was supposed to and went right into college i would probably have been worse off like the idiots i have classes with who write papers about smoking pot in their dads car and wondering why theyre failing at life.

just make sure you can get into a school that has the degree you want (or options for other ones you may be interested in).

I dropped out of HS to go to Brasil and play soccer my junior year. Ended up staying down there for about 2 years cuz I got accepted into an exchange program. I was supposed to be going to school, but only went for the first three months and then decided I wanted to travel. The school people really liked me so they sent my transcript back to my school in the US with perfect scores so I ended up graduating still. Got back to the US and took the SAT and ACT and did well. I have applied to school three years in a row now and never gone.
Though this year I applied to University of San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz and got accpeted.

I tested out of HS the beginning of my junior year. Got pretty lucky with jobs and I'm sorta thinking about going back to school. I have exp and a job in the field I want to be in, but I really want that piece of paper.

Back in ancient times, I was a top student in high school. My school didn't have a 4. scale or anything like that - old 100% scale, nothing was weighted. I finished with a mid 90s/100 gpa. 6th in a class of about 200 kids, taking all honors and AP classes. High school was just easy for me. 1310 on SAT (back when that was a good score, before they started weighting/curving the numbers and 1600 meant you got every single question correct which was practically impossible), 32 on ACT. Got into every college I applied to.

Went to an Ivy League college, and had a bit of a wake up call about "oh **** you actually have to work to get good grades here", maybe didn't handle the freedom too well at first but managed to pull my head out of my ass in time to pull up my gpa to 3.0. (I had one semester where my GPA was 1.7. OOF.) My in-major GPA was much better, 3.6 if I remember correctly.

Took a couple years in the workforce, went to grad school and got really good grades (not sure if grad school was just easier because fewer BS prerequisites to take so all the classes were interesting and relevant, or because of the difference between good state school [Texas] and Ivy League [Cornell].)

Working and making a pretty good living, not using either of my degrees but I know I am where I am because of them so it's ok.

My biggest piece of advice to people is to pick a career, not a major, and make sure you have a well-plotted path from major->graduation->career. Make sure there are jobs in your chosen field. Network early and often. Internships as much as possible. Where you go to school, and even your grades, matter little compared to that stuff.

And here I am, went all the way through hs, straight into college. I did a lot of slacking though in hs, took a lot of art classes and easy classes where I never had to do anything. Made college a weird adjustment, because now I actually have to try, and I have the absolute worst study habits ever.

And I can't believe how much I spent at the bar last night. That is the reason I try to only pay cash when I go, because if I had opened a tab, I would have just kept going. Night ended pretty rad though, with some sorority girls giving me a walking taco.

I'm two years through college and am pretty bored with my major. Thinking of switching to bus mgmt and getting the hell out of here. Really don't want to be here for another four years.

I dropped out of H.S in my Junior year (with some sophomore classes), got my G.e.d in 3 months after dropping out. I was quite disappointed on how stupidly easy it was to acquire it, and yet some of the students in my class had such a hard time passing it.

After school, I started working. When I reached 21 I got into the wine industry, took courses for wine (which weren't easy and still passed with high scores). I love what I'm doing so far, but at the same time I always think about going back to college because I know if I go back I can do well. But I cant seem to have the drive to go, maybe its because of all the horrible stories I hear people wasting a **** load of money on college and cant find a job for what they studied for- and are in debt working 10-15 dollars an hours doing a job they hate to pay off their loans. Maybe its a New York thing.

My Dad never graduated from High School (dropped out to enlist during WWII), never got a GED but somehow managed to earn a PhD at McGill in Montreal and had a long career as a research chemist and post-graduate professor. I don't think you can do stuff like that anymore...

I'm seeing this a lot of this since everybody my age is graduating. I don't regret not finishing school, I really enjoy going to school, but I did not want to continue if I was just going to school for the sake of going to school.