Do you hold high standards for yourself?

[Sparx]

i hold high standards for important things. the difference between a 95 and a 90 is not important.

i am in the top of my class, i graduated in three years, i get 14k a year from mtsu. blah blah blah. i'm good at school. i've never worried about that.

i hold high standards for the people i am around. i don't want to hang out with people who are really mean or gross or unflattering. i think swearing in public is really trashy (seriously, that's not attractive.) i also think that drinking/partying is trashy. again, not attractive. i don't do that, and honestly, if you do, i will definitely think less of you. call me judgmental or whatever, but at least i'm honest. that's really trashy behavior that you will regret when you're older. (i don't mean drinking socially, i mean getting wasted every weekend and never being with your friends unless you're all getting drunk. especially if your parents are involved. i definitely think those parents need serious help. getting your kids drunk is not okay at all.)

i hold high standards for the way i act. i don't do the things i listed above. i always try to speak correctly and i try to be polite. i always try to think through decisions, and i try to do the best job possible with everything i do. example, i am a file slave at my high school. i have to pull shot-records, read permanent records, and file diplomas. if i mess up, i'm messing up someone's future. so i have to be very very careful and i take pride in my work.

i pride myself on the good things i do, but don't get me wrong. i don't slit my wrists over a screw up. failure is inevitable, and i take it positively. if i fail at something i can do one of two things, first i try to improve, if i cannot improve, i realize that i am simply meant to do something else, and i don't let it consume me.

 

[Sparx]

You may drive yourself batty!!

i used to be that way. seriously. i never made anything below a 98 on an english assignment until i made it to freshman college english. my professor made me cry every time she gave back an assignment. i managed to pull an 86 B in there, once i stopped getting hung up over the grades and concentrated on trying to improve.

college (if not freshman level, upper level) will certainly break everyone who will cry over a grade, i promise.

some classes are really easy, and some professors are really easy. but there will always be one extremely bitter, hardcore professor who has never, will never give out an A. and if you never meet that professor, consider yourself lucky. but, seriously, they are out there, and you might want to chill out a little bit before you meet him/her.

 

[crazytp93]

I used to (and sometimes have) the "as long as I pass" mentality. But next year i'm determined to change that.

This year I jumped from a 70 in the 2nd quarter to a 94 the 3rd quarter in Geometry.

I'm realizing that colleges don't want just average, they want over achievers.

I have extensive community service and I think that high 80s will get me into college, but still.

 

[Sparx]

I used to (and sometimes have) the "as long as I pass" mentality. But next year i'm determined to change that.

This year I jumped from a 70 in the 2nd quarter to a 94 the 3rd quarter in Geometry.

I'm realizing that colleges don't want just average, they want over achievers.

I have extensive community service and I think that high 80s will get me into college, but still.

honestly, anything >3.0 is fine to a college. and they do not care about community service. i've never had a single college application that cared about community service. i've never even written an entrance essay. the only thing you have to do essays and have community service for is some scholarships, but your fafsa will definitely get you more moo-lah then scholarships usually.

 

[crazytp93]

honestly, anything >3.0 is fine to a college. and they do not care about community service. i've never had a single college application that cared about community service. i've never even written an entrance essay. the only thing you have to do essays and have community service for is some scholarships, but your fafsa will definitely get you more moo-lah then scholarships usually.

yeah.
i've really found out that (around here at least) having connections will get you a scholarship easy.

 

[saratogadreamin09]

I do. In most of my classes I'll only get excited when I get a 100, Im ok with getting 90+ but I really love getting 100's. Im really bad in Global, the first two quarters this year I had a 100 average in global and whenever I get below a 100 I get so upset, for the third quarter I got a 99 in global and I was so upset.


Spanish and Bio are different stories. These two arent my best classes so Im happy with 85+

 

[saratogadreamin09]

honestly, anything >3.0 is fine to a college. and they do not care about community service. i've never had a single college application that cared about community service. i've never even written an entrance essay. the only thing you have to do essays and have community service for is some scholarships, but your fafsa will definitely get you more moo-lah then scholarships usually.

I dont think that applies to all colleges. My cousin had a 100 average in high school but he didnt really have any after school activities or service. He ended up getting wait listed to Harvard and Dartmouth, the guy from his town that gave him the interview for Harvard told him that if he had more activies or service on his resume he probably would have gotten in in-a-heart-beat

 

[PosessedEeyore]

Not at all.
I don't study, I never pay attention in class, and my homework isnt done correctly/fully.
But somehow I manage to not get D's or F's.
I have mostly B's but a C in math.
So basicly, whatever I get is what I get, it doesnt really affect me...

 

[andy1078]

because grades matter for the long term

 

[Sparx]

I dont think that applies to all colleges. My cousin had a 100 average in high school but he didnt really have any after school activities or service. He ended up getting wait listed to Harvard and Dartmouth, the guy from his town that gave him the interview for Harvard told him that if he had more activies or service on his resume he probably would have gotten in in-a-heart-beat

i meant real colleges that the majority of people apply to, not colleges that have conspicuous acceptance.

 

[Mrs.Musso]

yes i do but im not obsessed or anything. i have all a's but i also am a major suck up when i need to get a better grade.
(Hi, Mrs. So and so, how are you today?")
lol.

 

[BabyPiglet]

FAFSA sucks, please do not rely on that. My parents would have to pay in $30,000 a year before FAFSA would give us a cent.

I hold high standards for myself, period. In my classes this year, that was 100-110 because that's what I made on my first tests. In Biology classes though, I feel I have to atleast make a C, because I know I'm not that good at science.

I don't weep if I make a 95, I'm just a little disappointed, which makes me try harder next time.

Like on my last English essay, I got an 89, but I didn't fall into a depression about it. 1. Because I know it was a really good paper. 2. I can always try again next time.

So please do not mistake my 'high standards' for an inability to accept anything average.

 

[ReelBigFish419]

I don't really give too much of an effort, which would explain my 3 C's and 1 B this marking period (in my main classes). Somehow I managed to get 2 A's and 2 B's 1st marking period though. Not sure how that happened.

 

[Shelton123]

I know this will sound really weird -- but I'm one of those people who don't need to try all that hard to get really good grades. I've had all A's all my life, and I've never stressed about anything. I have the "as long as I'm passing, I'm fine" mentality, but I always get A's. Never gotten anything lower, but I wouldn't be crushed. I actually was failing Math last quarter at one point (well, like in the beginning when I forgot to turn in the first HW assignment, but it still counts, right?) but I brought it up.

 

[ReelBigFish419]

^I'm like that for math. I guess it just comes naturally to me. Everything else I suck in though.

 

[pigletgirl]

As shelby said, it all depends on your professor in college. Some of them are just plain hard and ask alot of you!

I really didnt have to try all that hard in HS, but once I got here....WOW! Its another ball game.

I guess what I'm coming down to is that an A is an A, whether it be a 90 or 100. Its that simple. I guess I dont understand why the percentage is such a big deal!

 

[BabyPiglet]

As shelby said, it all depends on your professor in college. Some of them are just plain hard and ask alot of you!

I really didnt have to try all that hard in HS, but once I got here....WOW! Its another ball game.

I guess what I'm coming down to is that an A is an A, whether it be a 90 or 100. Its that simple. I guess I dont understand why the percentage is such a big deal!

Yes, I know that high school is different than college, seeing as I'm a full-time college student.

I can see how professors could change the outcome, but it would also change my expectations. If I knew I had a tough professor, then I would lower my standards accordingly.

Percentage is just a better way that I can evaluate myself.

 

[CrazyChik]

My expectations are lowering as the work gets harder but anything below an A is a disappointment and even an A will be retaken until it's an A*. My grades mean everything to me, which probably is a little bit sad but I really want to make something of my life. I don't get the mentality of people who accept a C because it's a pass, the lower your grade the lower your chances of getting accepted to college/uni/sixth form. That's just me personally though and for the record I constantly recieved D's in art last year and I didn't give a flying monkey xD

 

[saratogadreamin09]

i meant real colleges that the majority of people apply to, not colleges that have conspicuous acceptance.

Just because harvard has "conspicous acceptnace", which I dont think is true, doesn make it not a real college. I dont like that term

 

[saratogadreamin09]

As shelby said, it all depends on your professor in college. Some of them are just plain hard and ask alot of you!

I really didnt have to try all that hard in HS, but once I got here....WOW! Its another ball game.

I guess what I'm coming down to is that an A is an A, whether it be a 90 or 100. Its that simple. I guess I dont understand why the percentage is such a big deal!

Percentage comes in handy in high school when determining the top 10 in a class. In my class there are about 20-25 kids who have a 95+ aaverage and we all have a shot to be in the top 10 so when one of us gets a 94 on a test and someone else gets a 95 it makes a huge difference to where we're ranked