Are you ready for college or would you rather stay in high school longer?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
41

<p>I need to get away.
my family is slowly eating me alive and my self-worth is being eroded.
i am going to college… just seven months of pain…seventeen days of rain</p>

42

<p>I should’ve graduated early. this blows me.</p>

<p>I’ve been ready to leave HS for the past 2 years. </p>

<p>I really don’t like the class of 2012.</p>

43

<p>The only advantages of staying in high school are that</p>

<p>a) I have a better chance of getting into a college that I really want to go to (i.e. MIT, Harvey Mudd, Caltech) than if I tried to transfer from another college or apply in my junior year
b) more time to do olympiad-like stuff
c) staying with my friends in my grade (who I only grew close to in the last year or so)</p>

<p>I would much rather be in college for academic purposes: taking legit math, physics, and CS courses instead of being limited to my high school’s course offerings and having more opportunities to do research.</p>

44

<p>I can’t wait for college. Classes, parties, people not judging me all the time, less uber-cliquey-ness, more freedom (my school is ridiculous), no uniforms, friendlier people, maybe get to know some girls (20 less girls than guys in my class of 92 and most of them are taken -.-). Pretty much everything is gonna be better in college. At least I hope :P</p>

45

<p>stay in high school.</p>

46

<p>I want to move on to college even though it’s gonna be bitter-sweet to leave high school for me. I absolutely abhor like 95% of the girls at my school because they are the snobbiest group of women I’ve ever heard of. On the other hand, I can’t imagine what life is gonna be like without my dude friends.</p>

47

<p>I sure want to get out of my school, but I’m worried that I won’t handle the transition well: I’m going from a small, close-knit, all-girls, private, catholic school to a huge co-ed school. Don’t get me wrong, I really want to go to a college like this, and I definitely don’t want to go to a tiny college or even worse: another four years of all-girls. But it’s the newness of it all that worries me. I guess after a week or two I’ll be fine.</p>