<p>^ ^</p>
<p>Depends on the high school, college, and the individual student. </p>
<p>UG is when many students find what worked in HS in getting As…such as completing all homework/study assignments and working hard may no longer be enough in doing the same in college. Conversely, other HS students who struggled to maintain Cs in HS find to their surprise that less effort, more manageable pacing by college Profs/college, and greater appreciation for creative idiosyncrasies or sometimes even intelligently arguing against Profs works wonders in getting As. </p>
<p>As an aside, an additional follow-on to #12:</p>
<p>Give the Profs at least a month and half lead-time if possible. Don’t wait till the last minute to get LORs for jobs/grad school and if you do, that doesn’t constitute an emergency on the Prof’s part. </p>
<p>Also, if you are in this situation, don’t pull what some older college classmates did by feeling it was such an emergency they frantically made a demanding call for LORs and in the process, interrupted some Profs’ holiday dinners with their families.* </p>
<p>Doing so is not only unlikely to facilitate your getting the desired LORs, but also possibly cause other Profs in the department or if small enough, Profs in the college at large to refuse as word spreads around about that bit of manifested idiocy. </p>
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<li>Never interrupt Profs’ holiday dinners for the sake of one’s LORs or any other foreseeable non-emergency unless you’ve established such a good rapport with the Prof(s) and/or he/she happens to be easygoing enough that they explicitly stated it was ok. Even then, endeavor to plan ahead to avoid doing so.<br></li>
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