<p>You guys may think I am crazy. But I am in 8th grade at a New York Middle School, and I am preparing to go to the high school. I play on the Varsity hockey team (yes as an 8th grader, and our team was 4th in states), and I am on the Freshmen baseball team. Boston University has been my dream ever since I was in 4th grade, when i went to my first Red Sox game (I am a die hard red sox fan). I don’t know what my GPA is yet, but my overall grade is an 89.43. All I need is some help on what I should do in high school, and as of now am I on a good track on getting into Boston University?</p>
<p>List of Colleges I would be amazed to attend:
Boston University
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
Notre Dame
Manhattanville</p>
<p>Am I on a good track to get into any of these colleges?</p>
<p>yea you’re definitely on the right track, just keep focusing on your goals and you’ll be fine. That being said, you’re only entering high school, not college, which means you should be enjoying your high school years and not thinking so much about the future.</p>
<p>Well we can only really give you general advice. Keep doing what you love and make sure you challenge yourself classwise. BU wants to see people that take advantage of challenging opportunities and stay committed to things i.e. Being dedicated to a sport for many years or being a leader in some clubs, or holding down a job. So don’t join a million clubs and barely do anything in them. Do what matters to you and that dedication will come through.</p>
<p>You are a few years too young to be pressuring yourself. Colleges don’t look much if at all your freshman grades, so you have a period when you can adjust to the workloads - and learn how to manage that with sports. That’s really what 9th grade is about: learning how to handle things. Learn to use your time well, so you get your work done, get your practices in and have fun. I’m going to emphasize the “get your work done” part; sports can really teach discipline but a lot of athletes try to slide on their school work. Even if you’re a star now, the odds that you’ll be a star at the next level - and the next level beyond that - are low, so you’ll be doing yourself a really big favor if you use the discipline of sports to learn discipline for school work. You know from hockey that mucking in the corners is a big part of the game. Same is true academically: do the reading, take the notes, show up for class. That will serve you for a lifetime.</p>
<p>Otherwise, all these schools will look for a decent curriculum. You don’t need to kill yourself taking all AP classes, but you need to take enough to be competitive. You will get college credit for good AP scores, and it is very worth it to have that flexibility because you’ll get out distribution requirements (and be able to take more of what you want) and you’ll even be able to take fewer classes at some point.</p>
<p>take care of yourself! you’re doing all you need to do, and focus is important, but it would appear you’re a bit TOO focused! you seem to be so one who could easily burn out…</p>