Can somebody tell me...

luv2sk8
Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:20:46 +0000

Hi i’m not a parent. i sneaked in here to look and found the thread
Effect of HS’s academic reputation on college acceptance

and i have a question that i’ve wanted to find an answer for a long time. let me explain this through something my friend’s brother told me. He is now post graduate, working in an engineering lab. He went to a HS in a deserted place where the teaching quality was poor. He had perfect SATs and all that. he did his best in HS and got into a pretty good college. Once he was there, he felt terrible the first year. He found out his college classmates from magnet HSs knew so much more than he did. The examples he gave were: Java script, C++, and some other computer skills. He finally caught up but it was a shock at the beginning.

I’m in a similar situation, except i don’t want to be an engineer. I want to do humanity. (not sure what yet, maybe things like broadcast, or law…) In humanity areas, what are the skills that a student from less privileged school may lack compared to their peers from a very good HS? I want to narrow that gap by my work and some enrichment programs, summer programs, etc. What are the things I should work on?

Thank you in advance for your ideas.