If you’re serious about getting your grades up, you should be in good shape. One piece of advice I can give you is focus your attention on smaller schools (5,000 or less students?) when applying. Big state schools only have time to look at your numbers, and your GPA will be pulled down by your freshman year grades. Smaller schools look for an upward trend in grades, and you can even explain your bad grades in your personal essay (which, applying to a small school, they actually will read). The disadvantage to smaller schools is that they’re usually private, which means more or less $20,000 a year in tuition. Get ready for those loans.

Or, you can go to community college your first year or two out of high school, make good grades there, and transfer to a big school.

You can definitely pull up your GPA in your sophomore, junior and senior year. Also, take a pre-test for the ACT so that you will know what to expect and do well on it. You might want to consider going to summer school to retake the class you failed. These are usually smaller classes and you have a better chance to make a good grade since you won’t have as many classes. If you see you need help in your classes, talk to your teacher/parents about a tutor. Hang in there, some colleges will let you in on a probationary status and once you get good GPA’s they will take you off probation. Go for it!!

College’s don’t ignore you freshman grades, but they will put extra emphasis on you junior grades/how rigorous your schedule was. If you do well on your SAT/ACT, you’ll be fine. And if you’re borderline, they’ll take a look at your senior grades/classes, so it’s important to not screw off and take knitting classes.

You said you’re interested in a small college, which will actually work in your favor here. Small schools have the time to really examine you beyond grades/exams, so prove yourself in other ways. Extracurriculars, sports, leadership roles, 260+ community service hours will help you stand out.

Best of luck!

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Don’t worry, you have three years to make it up. Make sure you get straight As, do a couple of activities (but not too many so it doesn’t affect your grades) and try for really good ACT/SAT scores. Just think of this as a wake-up call telling you to do better.

No. You can go to your local community college, for example, if you are 18 years old, with or without a high school diploma! Plus, if your grades are good, you can still end up with a high C or even low B average, by the end…

No if you get good grades all throughout hgh school you will defidently get into college