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If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. – Me During my junior year of high school, when everybody else was trying the hardest that they have ever tried, I was on the verge of being put on academic probation. I ended the first semester of junior year with a 1.95 / 4.00 GPA. For those who aren't familiar with the GPA scale, 1.95 is equal to a C- (73%-70%). My official high school transcript I applied to college with a 2.92 GPA. To put that into perspective, the average GPA for University of Michigan's accepted class in 2018 was 3.88. Oh and fun fact, I also got a 1 (failing score) on the AP Computer Science exam and my computer science teacher told me that I wasn't fit to be a programmer. Even so, I never stopped believing that my future self would pick it up and turn my life around. I will split this post into two sections. Section one will be about why my GPA was so terrible. Section two will be about what I learned from this experience. The Reason Why My GPA Was So

💻 I Nearly Failed High School June 13th, 2019 If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. – Me During my junior year of high school, when everybody else was trying the hardest that they have ever tried, I was on the verge of being put on academic probation. I ended the first semester of junior year with a 1.95 / 4.00 GPA. For those who aren't familiar with the GPA scale, 1.95 is equal to a C- (73%-70%). My official high school transcript I applied to college with a 2.92 GPA. To put that into perspective, the average GPA for University of Michigan's accepted class in 2018 was 3.88. Oh

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