<p>Hi! I’m a high school senior at a Magnet High School. I’ve finished applying to my three schools of choice: UNR, UNLV and SDSU. I’m on track for the District Advanced Honors Diploma which guarantees my admission into both UNLV and UNR. One night, I decided to calculate some scenarios for my senior year semester grades and I realized that I can get no more A’s, numerous B’s and C’s and even a D thrown in there and I will still make it to the 3.25 Unweighted requirement for that diploma I mentioned earlier. Even my 1160 Reading + Math SAT score guarantees my acceptance into the Nevada schools. My whole point to my rambling here is if I should really worry about my high school career anymore when everything seems set up for me already. San Diego is nothing but a high dream due to the OOS cost so my chance of staying in Nevada is more than 99%. I don’t even have any AP classes or college credits to worry about. I’ve come to realize over the past few months that Senioritis is very real and I don’t know if I should resist it or not. I don’t know if I should care anymore until I step onto that college campus I eventually choose. A good, ending question that can be debated is: Does what you do in high school really affect you in college?</p>
<p>If anyone has any advice or similar experiences they can share with me, it will really help. Thanks!</p>
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<p>It affects what colleges you can get into and what kind of merit aid you’ll get, obviously. Being admitted as a freshman is usually a lot easier than getting in as a transfer student. The better you do in high school, the more options you have, even if you don’t want to go to a top school. If you take college classes while in high school, those grades will follow you after you graduate.</p>
<p>Also, if you don’t have a good work ethic in high school, it’s somewhat improbable that you’ll suddenly change in college. College is harder than high school (I mean, it’s easier in some ways, but overall I think it’s harder). </p>
<p>I think working for good grades is important even if those grades don’t really “matter,” because grades are supposed to be an indication of mastery, and if I’m getting bad grades that means I’m not really prepared for the next level (even if they’re still passing grades). And if I’m not prepared for the next level, I’m just going to do worse and worse as time goes on. (I mostly take math, though…math has more prerequisites and more of a linear progression than other subjects.)</p>
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<p>My point is that this isn’t something you can just switch on and off.</p>
<p>That’s a really good take on things Halcyonheather, thanks! I feel as thought the work I do at my high school has been almost meaningless mostly due to the load of bad teachers I’ve gotten. I actually have had a bad high school experience education wise even though my school is ranked so highly in Nevada. I’m only content with the many friends I’ve made at this magnet school but besides that, nothing has really benefitted me academically here. I guess my point is that I feel like waiting till I go to college to actually care what I’m studying since I will have a passion for it as opposed to what I’m doing now. But thanks again Halcyonheather! Keep it coming guys!</p>
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<p>Don’t be too idealistic.
I’ve spent the year taking only classes in my favorite subjects at a local college. I still procrastinate a lot…there are still tedious assignments and difficult assignments and problems I have no idea how to approach, and I tend to put those off even though the subject matter is interesting.</p>
<p>Well anything can be better than being in a high school magnet program where the teacher isn’t qualified to even teach the course. At least in Engineering, things will be laid out for me and I’ll have a lot more drive to get things done. Anything else from anyone?</p>