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In reply to the discussion: My high school counselor said I wasn't "college material". Well, guess who passed the CA bar exam? [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)In college, I had a great advisor, and was determined upon my major. He knew there was a required class being offered the Winter quarter (Louisiana) of what was technically my freshman year (though I'd been enrolled in the Spring quarter before, so had 12 more semester hours than other freshmen). It was only offered once every other year, and he felt confident enough to have me get all the pre-reqs for it that prior Spring quarter and during Fall quarter, so I could attempt it that Winter. That way I'd get two shots at passing vs one. But it was a 400-level course.
The professor asked on the first day who all were seniors, majority raised hands. Juniors? Almost all the rest. Sophmores? One hand, next to me, my roommate. I was the ginger who still hadn't raised her hand. "Freshmen?" came out almost incredulously. I raised my hand, the only one. She said she wanted to talk to us after lecture, then moved on. The "talk" was an outright demand to drop the class.
I negotiated this for us: if we had less than a high B at last day to drop with a W, we would. She agreed reluctantly. We agreed privately she was a bitch and we were going to prove her wrong.
After the first test scores were put up, my roommate and I held the two highest scores. People asked to join our study group, where we'd been studying by ourselves before because of being set apart. Our group maintained the highest averages in the class, and I still had a 4.0 when finally finishing my freshman year... with no Ws.