Dealing with Pressure at bs

gardenstategal
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:42:51 +0000

It’s not easy, but you need to ignore everyone else and focus on your own achievement. If you would like to bring up your grades, meet with your teachers and ask if they can help you identify areas of weakness and provide strategies for improving. At a very competitive boarding school, a 3.0 is not a bad grade point average. Remember too that not all of your classmates have come to boarding school with the same background. You may be catching up. When you apply to college, most will not do more than glimpse at your freshman year record. You should be proud of what you have accomplished so far and use every opportunity you can to figure out how to make the most of the experience you are privileged to have.

Try to remember that you went to boarding school in order to make the best of yourself, not to best your classmates.