How did high school impact youre college life and education?

Question

Please give me your honest stories. Even a comparision of Grade Point Averages (GPA) is fine. Oh! And state your home country, just for reference.
Thanks!
Katherine

Answer 1

Hi there.

The high school I went to was LAME! However, being that I was a studious student, college was a breeze. I'm now done with my Masters. I received honors for all of my degrees.

Texas, USA

Answer 2

I'm from Colorado, and so far I've found that, if you're willing to work for it, college gpa's are fairly congruent with high school gpa's. The biggest challenge you'll have is trying to balance your other responsibilities (which you probably didn't have at home) with your schoolwork. Make sure you dedicate enough time to studying, though, and you should do fine. Also, if you have the chance to take some AP classes in high school, do it. It's good practice and preparation, and if nothing else, it will help you see how college classes run.

Answer 3

High School affected the way I thought about college on many levels. I didn't not like high school therefore the social transition was easy. On the flip side of that the school side was very hard to get acquainted with. My high school did not put any emphasis on getting into a college of my choice, so unfortunately I didn't really look for a school to fit my needs and aspirations. So I suggest when you're looking for a college, make sure you at least have a 2.5 GPA, and go where you want whether your parents like what you want to study. Otherwise you end up like me and have a degree in a subject you don't really like, or enjoy.

Answer 4

I went to high school a LONG time ago, but it set the tone for my undergraduate, graduate, and law school work. I went to a very intense academic high school, many of my classmates and I went to prestigious universities throughout the United States. I believe that there was at least one of my classmates at every Ivy League school, every University of California campus (except Merced, which didn't exist then), and probably every academically elite school you can think of. I received acceptances at Yale, Ohio State, Berkeley, Michigan, and MIT, before deciding on Princeton for my undergraduate work.

In high school, every student was expected to do well academically, socially, athletically, and morally. If you did not, the high school helped you with your problems. As such, when we ran into problems in college, we knew how to handle the pressures, and focus our attention on the problem rather than ignore it until it became too late.

My GPA in high school was about the same as it was in college, and my college GPA allowed me to go to graduate school as well as law school fairly easily (but you still have to take the GMAT and the LSAT). However, the workload and other social aspects of university life are much harder than high school ever demanded of me. There is always something else to do at college, because it is a preparation for life, where there are other demands on your time. Without a rigorous high school approach, where athletics and other extra-curricular activities were almost required of each student, I wouldn't have been ready for the social aspects of college, or the challenges of graduate school and law school.

I am from the United States, specifically, California.

Best of luck to you!

Answer 5

Ah, high school...I hated it. I was all about having fun, dating boys, going to parties, and didn't care about school. I wasn't an outcast, but I was definitely a misfit. And a troublemaker (I'm still apologizing to my parents). I liked some of the books we were assigned to read in English class, and I loved art history (an 'experimental' class my senior year) and spanish, but otherwise didn't feel challenged at all and found a lot of my work pointless. I ended up being like 35th out of 300 students--I couldn't even tell you my GPA--and I failed a couple of classes for having bad attendence (I skipped school a lot).

College, on the other hand, I LOVED! I took a year off after high school and worked full-time. It was the smartest decision ever, because after having a crappy job and living on my own (i.e. from paycheck to paycheck) at 18, I appreciated college a lot more. I liked the freedom, the independence, and having the ability to study something that actually interested and challenged me. I found myself keeping textbooks to read later. Furthermore, because I'd had a year to party and be careless after high school (and because my parents weren't footing the bill, like so many others I knew), I was a serious student and didn't mess anything up by being out of control. I lived with a family in Sweden for a summer when I was in high school, and I liked social sciences, so I got my BA in International Relations. Since then, I've earned an MA and this year I'm going to start my PhD, but no one from my high school would believe it! And no one I know now believes I was a troublemaker as a youngster, either.

I'm from the US; I went to high school and undergrad in Ohio, did my master's in Michigan, and will do my PhD in Pennsylvania.

Answer 6

In High School, I thought I was king of the world. I had a 3.8 GPA and could seem to get A's in most classes, without trying.

At first, I did well in college, ~3.2. But my study skills were not up to par and my grades dropped sophomore year (~2.3). I used the campus resources and worked harder, and I ended up finishing college altogether with a 3.4, as I did quite well junior/senior years.

So, High school prepared me well for the first year of college, but I don't think I took the next step for sophomore year.

Home country: United States

Answer 7

i have a 4.20 something for starting high school i will be a 10th grader next year but see the proble for me is i am bad at taking test so in middle school they made us take a test i tried so hared but for sience i have life science it sade because now i wont be able to go to a good colleg and i like work so hard so its not just high school its every grade

Answer 8

I dunno. I went to college while in High Schol for two years, then went right into the workforce sans any degree.

Educated in Washington State, USA
Living in Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Answer 9

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