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Ive had high school trouble and i really want to go to a good college but my grades. im a sophmore in ?

High school, ok so I got a couple Ds and failed an auto class and a couple As Bs and Cs. And my average is like a C. So this is a list of the colleges I want to go to, tell me if you think I can turn it around before its too late and what I have to do OR if some of some of these colleges is already impossible for me to be accepted into. Ohio State. Oklahoma. Stanford. Texas. Thanks for your guys opinion. So what do I have to do to get into these colleges if (I still have a chance)

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1. you are not getting into Stanford or OSU main campus You are going into your sophomore year? then you got two years to pull up your GPA. You need to get better grades. Oklahoma and Texas have several universities. which ones are you thinking about.
2. In general, colleges don't care much about what happens before junior year. It's okay that you have this early record, as long as your grades are good in the last two years of high school this will not be a big consideration in admissions. Yes, your chances at Ivy League are ruined. But you can move past that. The real issue is what effect this will have on your GPA. If you graduate with an average above 3.0 and a good score on the SAT or ACT (which you can take over and over again until you do really well) you have a good chance at getting into a decent school right away, and if that doesn't happen, you can go to community college for a year and get good grades, then reapply. I go to Ohio State, and I know plenty of people who came here after a year at community college and are doing really well now. (Especially if the community college was an OSU branch) Also, don't be ashamed to include a letter in your applications explaining why those grades happened and stressing that they are well in the past. This can make the difference for you. If you had any medical or personal reason for doing poorly, get documentation proving that now and include that as well. (Note: This can include depression, a disease common in teens. A regular family doctor can diagnose depression if you have it. That's just a guess, but if it happens to be right, please feel free to email me for more specific information on how to approach explaining something like this in admissions.) Good luck, your chances are still very good and the worst thing you could do is get discouraged and decide that admission is "impossible" for you. Here at Ohio State, at least, no one is sitting in harsh judgment of high school kids who made mistakes or had bad luck when they were 14/15. If you study hard and do better everything will be fine.