Scared for college rigor?

jkeil911
Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:31:38 +0000

How well any student makes the transition from big fish/little pond to little, middle, or big fish/big pond is often a result of their personality. Almost all high school students have some anxiety about this transition, and parents, teachers, family, and friends can be a big help in aiding the student in making this choice between the ultra-challenging schools and the less challenging schools. So OP should raise this question with the cohort of supporters who best know her and can help her make a choice. She should also understand that almost every student has the same trepidation about college and that almost every student had a lesser version of the trepidation about the transition from middle school to high school. OP very successfully overcame her trepidation about high school, and that bodes well for the transition to college rigor. On the spectrum between loves cut-throat competition with peers to fears offending anyone by her achievements, brains, and hard work, where does the OP lie? If she’s closer to the former, she shouldn’t be overly fearful of the most rigorous colleges. If she’s closer to the latter, she might need to be a big fish in a smaller pond. This is all part of the fit, OP.