<p>Hello everyone! This fall I will be a high school freshman! Throughout middle school my grades were perfect and I have done a TON of community service. I would love to be accepted to an Ivy League in a few years, but the problem is that I will be in a middle college. There's no sports to join, or clubs to manage. It's strictly academic and I know that won't be enough to get me into one! If anyone has any ideas of thing that could
take the place of them, please help me. Thank you for your time.</p>
<p>In 9th grade I didn’t even know people went to colleges outside of the home town. Worrying this early is unhealthy.</p>
<p>I plan to take some APs… And I’m going with MC because of the college credits and the associates degree… It’s a medical based program and I plan to be in that line of work.</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t offer much in the way of AP classes, you could try self-studying, especially for courses other than lab sciences. It would take a lot of self-motivation on your part, but it is doable for many students. </p>
<p>If the reason for the lack of clubs lies in student apathy, found a club! If the reason is that your school prohibits student clubs, make one that will meet outside of school. </p>
<p>Some other options include:<br>
-Classes at a local college or community college<br>
-Volunteer<br>
-Found a charity
-Get a job
-Look into internships
-Start a business
-Start a blog or newsletter, and then build it
-Start an outside organization that you can be passionate about
-Get involved in community theatre or the like
-Tutor
-Go on a mission trip
-Join a club sport
-Get involved in a church group</p>
<p>Those are just a few options available to you, and some are more difficult than others. Do things you’re passionate about.</p>
<p>What do you plan to get your AA in?
Do you understand the courses to get an AA is not the same as taking full year high school classes?
You are doing vocational training.
Your AA courses are not always the same as courses that are recommended/required courses for applications to universities.
You are severely limiting your chances of getting into any elite college with your plan.
I don’t think you understand the process.
You should talk to a gc at the cc or hs.
Just trying to help not burst your bubble.</p>
<p>You need to talk to an adult who can explain to you about college.
Make an appointment with the high school guidance counselor if you don’t have an adult who understands about college requirements.
You should be registering soon to take a full schedule of freshman high school courses…
Math
Science
English
History
Foreign language
PE
Elective</p>
<p>You need permission to sign up for MC and doubtful your school would let an middle schooler make such decisions without talking to your parents.
Middle College with an AA in mind is not the usual path to ivies.
You need to get help because your plans are ill advised.</p>
<p>… OK. So I’m a senior in HS, just went through the whole application process. One thing that I CAN tell you is not to worry so much- you’re not even in high school yet! While it’s great to be concerned about college and motivated this early, high school does tend to change a lot of people, trust me, and you may want something totally different by the time that you are where I am now.
ANYWAYS. Here’s what I can tell you about the extra curricular situation-
ECs don’t have to be from your school- you can be involved in things outside of school activities like community organizations, tutoring, part time jobs, or volunteer work. Most colleges have sections on the application where you can tell them anything that you want, and you can just say that your school didn’t offer many ECs and you still tried to get as involved outside of the classroom as you possibly could.
Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Agree with above that your plans are ill-advised. Speak with your guidance counselor who hopefully has experience with admission to selective colleges. You do want to take four years worth of math, science, english, social science, and foreign language which leaves little time to do vocational electives. I also have concerns that the students you are compared against for grades in a high school AP class are often stronger than the ones in a middle college. If you like, look at some of the Ivy results threads and you won’t find successful applicants following your current planned path.</p>
<p>I’d definitely agree that worrying this early might be a little much, but if you’d still like to look into how to plan your time and what you should be doing definitely look up what schools like that look for and find harder classes and some outside activities to join. [CollegEnquirer</a> | Learn About College](<a href=“collegenquirer.com”>http://www.collegenquirer.com/) also has some good college planning tips you might want to check out.</p>
<p>You’re so young, lol. I’m graduating high school this May and I remember when I was a freshman. It didn’t seem like 4 years ago! High school is going to be tougher than middle school, but work hard and you will manage. Keep up your grades and always put your education first. Join many extracurricular clubs, try to do an internship your junior or senior year. When applying for colleges make sure to get top notch recommendations from as many people you can think of, write a stellar essay and make sure your English teacher reviews it for errors - that’s very important. Anyway just make sure you are very involved, joining a sport is also important. Keep your grades up and start studying for the SAT early! Good luck! You will do it! And in the mean time enjoy the next 4 years of your life - it will fly by, trust m! Don’t stress, just work hard, keep your grades up and you’re good!</p>