HS Freshman looking for advice

tiger14
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:25 +0000

You will (I hope) be a far different person by the time you have to apply for colleges, compared with who you are today. Four years is a really, really long time. Even between my HS senior fall and senior spring, I changed a lot, I grew a lot, and my desires and goals changed dramatically.

I would suggest that any freshman who says “I would love to study [at Princeton]” cannot actually know if that’s true. Not yet, anyway. It might be true! But it’s way too early to say.

Sorry, I don’t mean to belittle you. But, as a current Princeton senior, I would say, ease off on the college-prep and focus on enjoying high school instead. Study hard, figure out what you like, get the most out of your classes and extracurriculars. Turn this energy towards things that you can do NOW, instead of working towards Princeton as some mythical goal. I know it’s not helpful and that’s pretty cliched advice. Sorry!

Also, avoid this forum. Come back as a junior, maybe, or a senior. :P