Advice you wish you had as a Freshman?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>What advice did you guys wish you had as a freshman??</p>

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<p>I wish I was more motivated in school freshman year! I also wish I branched out a little more activity-wise, instead of being so sports oriented.</p>

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<p>I have a really long high school advice post [url=&lt;a href=“http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1661936-if-you-could-redo-anything-in-your-high-school-career-what-would-it-be.html]here[/url”&gt;If you could redo anything in your high school career, what would it be? - High School Life - College Confidential Forums]here[/url</a>]. </p>

<p>I wish I had done ECs and known more about the college process. I think I’d probably be going to the same college anyway, but it would have been nice if I’d had more perspective on what the future was going to be like. </p>

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<p>@halcyonheather I have read that you finished your requirements by the end of freshman year. Were you enrolled in AP? I’m really stuck between choosing AP where I can test out of classes (so I can participate in dual-enrollment) or IB, which I’ve heard (many times) is extremely rigorous and can’t move ahead? :/</p>

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<p>I wish I had went to summer school so I can finish PE early. My tip on freshman year is, “Don’t think to much about something and just do it. The more you think, the more you don’t want to do it.”</p>

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<p>Dating isn’t fun. Be really good friends with the person and know almost everything about him or her before even considering dating. </p>

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No, it was by the end of my junior year. I wouldn’t be surprised if I have some weird typo somewhere, though.

I took AP classes in my junior year. I took dual-enrollment classes full time in my senior year because my high school didn’t offer many AP classes (they had four the last year I took classes there, and they got two or three new ones after I left), and they didn’t have IB at all.<br>
If your school offers a lot of advanced classes and you don’t have any special reason for taking dual enrollment classes (they’re free in my state, and I wanted to take math classes beyond AP Calculus BC), you should probably just take advantage of AP or IB.</p>

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<p>AP is great, but not a lot of schools offer IB so I would take advantage of that if possible! You can always self study for AP exams.</p>

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<p>There’s generally no reason to self-study AP exams unless you want college credit. </p>