Tough Freshman Year

Dad082
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:25:41 +0000

The best advice anybody can give you right now is to take a deep breath and relax. You’re still a freshman and you have a long way to go; it’s WAY too early to “feel so done”! Colleges like to see students challenging themselves with an upward trend in grades. Your current grades are by no means terrible and you have more than enough time to work on improving them.

Keep everything in perspective; you don’t need to have perfect grades to gain admission to Georgetown. As stated by ZBD5421, Georgetown wants well-rounded students who are academically able to handle the work, but will also contribute to the school community in other ways. Grades, test scores, EC’s, and recommendations are all part of the admission equation.

Take some time to actually enjoy high school! You are going to be spending the next 3 1/2 years of your life there, so you might as well have some fun too. A proper balance between work and play is essential for your own personal health and happiness. The journey is as important as the destination.

Whether you wind up at Georgetown or not is impossible to predict, but it is obvious you are serious about school and doing well. Remember that there is a college for everybody, and by the time you are ready to make your decision you may very well have a different top choice. Take the time to research and visit other schools so that you have several top choices. It’s never a good idea to be so singularly focused on one school as the complexity of the admissions process virtually assures that there are no guarantees at any of the top schools.