<p>I'm wondering what people think about pros and cons between private all girls catholic education and public education for the junior and senior years of high school. (This is basically my question, the rest is just extra detail)
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<p>Right now, I go to a rigorous all girls high school that I hate. My social life is close to non-existent, I am stressed out of my mind, and there is so much pressure to do so extremely well in all of my classes and tests. Everyone around me seems to have a 4.0 and 98% average. I need to be ashamed of my 3.8 in our environment, and although I get scores that most at outside places would consider outstanding, within my school I feel like a failure. When I went to public middle school, I loved school and learning, and now I hate going to school every morning. </p>
<p>I met with a counselor at my local public HS earlier this week to talk about transferring. It is a decent school, I know most of the kids, their drama and music programs are great (and that is my thing, and my school's departments are lacking) and I think I would like to go to a school with boys (for social aspect, I feel like I'm going to graduate not knowing how to have a real conversation with a guy. I can count the boys I've spoken to in the last two years on my fingers). I also feel like the girl friends I had were better from middle school, and I keep in touch with a couple. Socially, I really want to switch. I want to go to football games, and dress up in school colors, and get asked to dances, and go in big groups. Also, because I might choose to major in music/the arts, going to public school will free up finances come audition time. Paying tuition will keep me from applying to, auditioning, and visiting all the schools I want. </p>
<p>Academically, while the regular classes at my current school are harder, at the new school I will be able to have taken up to 8 AP classes by the time I graduate, while at my current one I will be able to take 5 at the most. At the public school, I will be doing better amongst my peers. At public school. I will be able to take all of the classes I want, and at my current one, I'll need to make sacrifices (Choir, AP Spanish, AP Psych, AP Music theory, Drama: pick any two) Senior year, I would only have one elective, which would be choir because singing is really the only thing I actually enjoy in my life. </p>
<p>My dad says that he doesn't really care what I choose, but he wants me to stay and finish what I started. He says most importantly, I need to do what is best for college and what will make me happy. Mind you, my parents are worried about the academic aspects of college, not the artistic. I want to go to Oberlin, UMich, Rice, Carnegie Mellon... places with good music programs, but also good academic classes I can take. I don't think the public school would be a shameful place to graduate from. Most kids go to public school. At most colleges, public school kids are the majority (despite what some incorrect posts I've read on here recently say) </p>
<p>I've always been someone who tends to fly under the radar/ get lost in the crowd. I'm shy when I first meet people, so lots of people don't get to know me, so at my current school, lots of people don't know who I am/ respect me. I was sick of being that person during middle school, and thought I would change but it is just who I am. I miss my old friends, and I hate to see how they are all so happy and I hate my life because of my school. </p>
<p>Still, I have parents and friends that are suggesting I stay. I see benefits in staying at one school 4 years, there are things I like about my school, the building is beautiful, most girls are fairly nice. Education is good. There are those moments that come around maybe once every couple of months that make you want to stay, so I'm having issues weighing pros and cons.</p>