Did high school actually prepare you for college?

Question

It sure as hell didn't prepare ME for it. In high school, you're surrounded by teachers who actually take the time to help YOU personally if you don't understand something. They're there to lift your spirits if it's obvious that your grades are slipping from some personal trauma happening at home. You look at college professors, and all they care about is whether or not you paid them.

High school never taught me how to deal with an acedmic life mingling hand in hand with a working life. I could have devoted all the time I wanted to for school work in high school, but now all I do is work to ensure that I'm going to have a roof over my head and something to eat tomorrow.

Did high school actually help you to deal with college?

Answer 1

That's a big "hell, no". High school didn't do anything to prepare me for college. I was valedictorian of my graduating class, and I'm now an honors student in college with a straight A average, but high school was a complete joke. I slept through most of it. It was about as challenging as being sent back to pre-school. I learned absolutely no study skills, and was forced to develop those on my own. Sorry, but being expected to care about the outcome of the school football game more than I cared for my own studies was NOT a good preparation for anything, much less higher education.

Answer 2

That is the problem with High School today, it doesn't prepare you for anything. They are so worried that if you fail a grade, it will warp your mind, damage you to the point your self esteem will suffer.

In the realy world, people fail, you don't get that promotion, or pay raise. You don't get to go on vacation, or that job you were trying to get. The college professors are old school and they dont care if you get it or not. They EXPECT you to work for and earn your grades.

In school now, if you are breathing, and have a pulse, you will be moved on to the next grade. Is that fair to the student, when all of a sudden, they are fired from a job, or fail to get a job because of their lack of knowledge.

I am not the smartest person in the world, but I did put some college under my belt, and graduated in 1971. I was prepared for college, I kept my grades up and was doing well until the money ran out, then the reality of the world set in.

The only way to fix this is to complain to the people pushing kids thru school no matter how their grades are, no matter how poor a learner they are, and no matter if they can do simple math or not.

The scary part is, these are the FUTURE doctors, lawyers and such. God help us all!!!

Answer 3

For a lot of students I dont think that they were prepared very well for college. In high school the teachers coddled them and told them how great they were doing, and gave them high marks just for showing up. College isnt like that.

College teachers have a certain set of materials that they have to present. Then, they have to scertify that the students actually know what they were presented. No responsible college teacher is going to give anybody any kind of break whatsover because the person is ill, depressed, working 60 hours, or any other cause outside the classroom. It is their duty to certify that you know the material, if you dont, then you get a bad mark. End of discussion.

However, I have seen many, many examples over the years of teachers who have bent over backwards to help out students who are having problems - as long as the student doesnt expect to get a mark for doing less work or lower quality work than is required.

In high school, you are still considered a child, but in college you are considered an adult, ready and expected to handle your prsonal problems without aid from the professors.

Answer 4

Nope. My college professors weren't teachers. They knew their subjects, but did not necessarily know how to impart the knowledge to others.

My high school teachers were teachers.

Part of the problem may be the speed with which the knowledge was flowing and being tested. In college, it was at a much accelerated rate (supposedly)! High school had a lot of backtracking and redundancy.

Answer 5

Yes, definitely I was prepared for college after high school. Note that it is not really the responsibility of high schools to make people assume the responsibilities of adulthood. It is the responsibility of high school to teach the subjects that you enroll in. Each person has to take responsibility for himself. Sometimes that transition from hand-holding of youth to independence of adulthood is hard, but that is what life is about. I don't blame my high school for any lack of maturity I may have had when I graduated. The world is hard, and I just learned to deal with it.

Answer 6

I was blind-sided by college. I went from a class of 500 to one of the biggest universities in the country and I was overwhelmed. It was hard to know where to turn for help. I think a good transition is to go to a community college for a semester really. High school and a big university is no comparison!

Answer 7

NOT ONE BIT. I didn't have to do anything through High School, it was a breeze for me. When I got to college everything went to a hault. I was never taught how to "study" or anything of the sort, you have to pay for everything now, and you don't get anything in return really. College is hard. I even graduated High School with a 3.8 GPA.

Answer 8

I was the product of public schooling. Our city did not have alot of funding which meant we students went without. We had to share school books and there was a lack of teachers in the system. Long story short, I was not prepared for community college let alone a regular four year college. Community college did however prepare me for study in a four year school.

Answer 9

In fundamentals only. You'll notice the same phenomena when you go from college to work. Just think of your academic/career life as a bike... the training wheels have to come off each time. It should be up to you to try and not need them before the actual time to take them off.

Answer 10

No,because high school prepare for college only very little bit and it u help but very less just make only mind for college, not to prepare for college.