Switching High Schools Senior Year

Mezzo_sMama
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:02:07 +0000

You will have to get your reccomendations from teachers at your old school, so pick out two or three and talk to them ASAP. They’ve known you and your work erhic/accomplishments longer so colleges will take what they have to say more seriously. Also ask mentors/advisors to groups you were active in if they would be willing to write up a page stating your efforts in the groups, levels of participation, etc. The administration or guidance counselors should have something drawn up which explains the courses you have taken, the difficulty factor, etc- you get the picture. In other words, most of what you will need has to come from the “old” school; just keep your grades up and you’ll be fine. You do have a large course load at your new school, which leads me to wonder if all of the courses you have taken will, indeed, transfer? Sometimes, the esoteric offerings of “modern. progressive” institutions are only good if they are judged along some other " standard" so that evaluators have something to go by. Is there and chance that you could take a course or two in-line and work at your own pace, thereby taking some of the stress off of you? I’m thinking of classes like heath,etc? It’s really a shame that your school left you hanging so that it was too late for you to have made good use of summer school to complete needed gaps in your course work. It was awful for the school to have cut you loose, so to speak, in your senior year and the administration there should be ashamed of themselves for putting the almighty dollar in front of the needs of a student like yourself. One thing is for sure- you will have a terrific topic for your college essays! You show maturity and wisdom far beyond that of the adults who have placed you in this situation, and I admire your determiniation (and sense of humor!!).