High School Class of 2018

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>@wcao9311 class of 2018 over here :wink: :smiley: </p>

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<p>@dragonfruit18 -_-.</p>

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<p>bump.</p>

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<p>bump.</p>

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<p>8th grade was awesome. Enjoy it while you can. </p>

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<p>I had a love/hate relationship with eighth grade. It was nice at times and really sucked at others. Seventh grade was completely awful, though. </p>

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<p>I should have taken advantage of my free time in middle school</p>

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<p>@SwaggyC Same. </p>

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<p>What would you have done in ur free time?</p>

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<p>Math.</p>

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<p>8th grade was way better than 9th. For me, at least.</p>

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<p>7th Grade was best. </p>

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<p>8th grade was where all my friends were at and we made it to a national tournament as a team, so the fundraising stuff and the actual competition made for some good fun. </p>

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<p>As a parent of an 8th grader I am wondering what many of you will be doing the summer before entering high school. Are there any specific programs? Or should this time be used for high school course prep and or PSAT/SAT prep?</p>

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<p>@magnetnh I suggest focusing on your 8th grader’s hardest class for next year, with a little bit of SAT prep on the side. I am now closing to the end of my freshman year, and as I looked back to the summer before high school, I realized that I had all the materials to do well for AP Gov, but never looked at them until the very end of summer. If I had actually studied, then I suppose I could have actually done well in the class for first semester. Don’t let your kid underestimate high school because it’s harder than he/she thinks (well, not entirely true since some classes are easier than others).</p>

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Expensive programs usually aren’t that impressive to attend, and in my experience it’s pretty hard to find free selective programs for anyone who isn’t a rising junior or senior. I guess if I had it to do over again I’d probably try to find some hobbies and develop my work ethic so I wouldn’t procrastinate as much as I do. I would have taken advantage of the freedom and used it to study stuff I was interested in just for the sake of studying it.
I don’t think there’s much of a point in preparing for the SAT before you start high school. You’d be making the whole process unnecessarily difficult. The SAT tests math most eighth-graders haven’t learned yet, and people’s writing skills improve naturally as they get older. It’s easier to study for the SAT as a sophomore than as a rising freshman. </p>

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<p>@magnetnh‌, stay away from big name prep programs, just like halyconheather said. Do some self-prep, let them enjoy their summer, but get ahead a bit on frosh curriculum and above all, tell them that while this is a new slate, it’s one they’ll cart around for 4 years, and that EVERY GRADE MATTERS.</p>

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<p>Hello, all.
I am in the 8th grade and am thoroughly enjoying it, though it seems like the fastest grade ever. I remember June of 7th Grade, when while studying for finals, I wondered if there were any college planning sites out there. I found the College Board, and then started looking at different aspects, and have been on this fiasco ever since!
Where I live (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), unlike the rest of Canada and America, high school is from grades 10-12, junior high is from 7-9 and elementary is from K-6, so I have to wait another year for high school.
Where is everyone from?</p>

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<p>I found CC in December, but only joined on April 1st or 2nd.</p>

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<p>8th grade sucked for me i hated it so much. High school will suck too but its a better kind of suck</p>