VERY lost about college

Skates76
Thu, 28 May 2015 14:09:12 +0000

As said above your stats are still great, likely NMF status gives you plenty of choices with lots of guaranteed financial merit aid, and B’s, especially in AP courses, are what a lot of kids are very happy to achieve, so you are still doing great. Your thread title about being lost and the disparate set of possible majors you mentioned, STEM to Human Rights, make me wonder if you can parse through your grades and see if there is a pattern to the kind of courses you are acing, versus the ones that you are pulling B’s in? It might point to your academic strengths and not quite so strong areas, or identify areas that you struggle with from lack of interest/motivation coming from the subject matter of the course. It may not even be a clear cut STEM versus humanities thing, but I think that it is worth looking at as you go through your journey of deciding where you want to go and what you want to do to see what enlivens your imagination and motivates you, as well as what you excel most at.

The first poster mentioned your being able to get into schools 95% of kids can dream about, which is probably close to true, but you can take some solace that despite some of your classmates acting like they have their entire college career and even life mapped out in detail, you fit in perfectly with the 95% who also feel lost and clueless at this point in the process, and that includes many who think they know exactly what they will do, only to change majors three times in college.

Enjoy the freedom of not knowing, take your time to explore yourself and the possibilities out there, look at more than just your grades and investigate all of the avenues that will no doubt be available to you. You are no more lost than most of your classmates, you are simply at a place where the paths you can choose are still many and varied, which is a great thing to have even if you feel a little unsure at the moment.