<p>Hi! I'm an 8th grader at the moment and am excited for the next step of reality in my life, HIGH SCHOOL! I would like to ask you all on your experiences of high school(fun,difficulty,etc.) I have a passion for school(particulary math and science except geometry), and get good grades (5 A's, 1 B). </p>
<p>I really want to do well in high school, I am not stressing out or anything :). I see so many Straight A students, want to be like them, and go to a university like Stanford :D </p>
<p>So I've heard that high school for some people is so hard. Currently, 8th grade is a breeze, besides Geometry. Please tell your story to me and the CC community about your high school experiences.</p>
<p>p.s: dont tell me to get a life and go back to playing video games</p>
<p>Hello :).
Don’t stress! For one thing, you’re not even in high school yet. While being ambitious is fantastic, do NOT go into high school with the expectation of going to Stanford. It’s so easy to get caught up in the notion that the only way to be successful is to go to HYPSM and it’s soooooo untrue. Don’t waste your high school years obsessing over an Ivy.</p>
<p>High school is different for everyone. For me, I took most of the AP classes available. Some nights are really tough, some nights I barely have any homework. In other schools, they get five hours of homework every night, and in other schools, they get twenty minutes every night. My brother, on the other hand, is in all regular classes with some ‘extra help’ classes for math. He’s having an amazing time in high school, too.
You’re in 8th grade, enjoy your last year of middle school and don’t worry about this stuff yet!</p>
<p>PS, I’m pretty sure it’s the people who spend hours playing video games that are told to get a life.</p>
<p>Well I remember the first week being overwhelming- but that’s basically a given. The adjustment time is different for everyone. Also, most HS offer honors classess for you to take instead of just the grade level class. That is something that I was VERY grateful for.There is also a larger variety of electives which are very fun. And I remember the seniors being incredibly intimidating, but don’t worry we won’t bite :)</p>
<p>I’m willing to devote a lot of time into ECs and homework in high school. I’m not obsessed with a particular college, but I am aiming for whatever is to the best of my ability! The high school I will go to only allows 3 AP classes the max, and I was dissapointed when I heard you couldn’t take physics in freshman year D=. Does the high school you go to affect your grades as well? Like bad teachers… giving TERRIBLY hard tests?</p>
<p>^Yes, of course there’s good teachers and bad teachers, that’s just life. Also, don’t just join a ton of ECs to fill up your resume, you’ll be miserable.</p>
<p>If you want to enjoy high school at all, DO NOT get a job, especially one that requires you to work 20+ hours a week, and to work everyday.</p>
<p>Trust me, my stats would be much better, and I would be much happier (less stress, more friends, more social time) if I had had that extra time for homework and such during those years.</p>
<p>Don’t compare yourself to your friends, either. You will spend fours years doubting yourself only to find that you will graduate with a rank than is better than 9/10 of them.</p>
<p>I liked high school better than middle school, though I prefer being on a college campus for dual enrollment classes.</p>
<p>Remember, high school grades count. I didn’t keep this in mind for freshman and sophomore year, so while I regularly got 100s on tests, I never did homework. Homework is actually important for your grade, if otherwise pointless and possibly detrimental to the learning mentality.</p>
<p>Make friends, take classes you WANT to take, and join activities, never for college, but because they sound fun. Pick the “good” teacher every time, and be nice to everybody, it will only help.</p>
<p>Don’t slack, but don’t kill yourself, either. The most important part of school is obviously school, but it shouldn’t consume your life. Find something you love (whether it has to do with school or not is irrelevant) and pursue it. Enjoy life, don’t do ridiculously stupid things (minor stupid things can be okay), and don’t sacrifice what’s important to you for things that are ultimately meaningless.</p>
<p>Read books, discuss your thoughts, and think as an individual. Make these years your best so far, but make sure they aren’t your best overall. Remember that what happens now won’t matter in 20 years, unless you make it matter.</p>
<p>I’ve been told that people change a lot, but I’ve always gotten the impression that people who find middle school easy find high school easy (same for medium and hard).</p>
<p>Eh it depends on your work ethic. If you’re one of those “natural” smart types who doesn’t study.work hard but still gets As then high school will rape you but, if you have a good work ethic then high school will be easy to medium for you and, it all depends on all the classes you take. (APs will ruin your life but, take them thought, some of them are actually stimulating.)</p>
<p>I don’t think any class will ruin my life. Thank you all for your helpful responses :D! One quick question, is there a lot of Proof in High School/College(calculus)? I dont even know why I’m not very good at proof… I am just never sure I’m 100% correct.</p>
<p>That’s true; get one in the summer if you really want it. Try to take as many challenging courses as you can; get stupid requirements (like art) out of the way freshman year/sophomore year (self-study one or two easy APs, like Human Geography or Psych, around this time, too); and…basically, a regurgitation of what the others have said. Most of all, enjoy it!!!</p>
<p>Geometry is really not that hard! It’s just some of the proof. I’m good with the logical and calculations. I fall asleep sometimes cause the class is so boring, but tomorrow I have geo last! yay!the teacher just clicks a button and we magically learn stuff. only like 5 people have an A/A-in our class of 30.</p>
<p>The high school I am going to allows 3 AP’s a year Junior-Senior. You can only take AP world history in sophomore year and honors. No AP for freshmen, but you can take honors.</p>
<p>You have no idea how lucky you are to have found CC before high school.</p>
<p>Listen to the advice here, and you will have your pick of the litter when you are applying to colleges. It might not seem important to you now, but come senior year, where you are going to college will practically define you and your future.</p>
<p>That seems like pretty contradictory advice. I say focus on the video games. Everyone has friends; not everyone can play Starcraft professionally.</p>
<p>P.S. spending too much time on CC will destroy your soul.</p>
<p>Hahaha I remember when I was in 8th grade I had this huge book of the 100 “best” colleges (I wonder how they chose, because most of them really weren’t the best…) and I read that book EVERY night. Haha I am also now not interested in ANY of the colleges in that book.</p>
<p>If you find middle school easy, you will find high school easy. Everyone hates almost all freshmen, not in a serious freshmen hazing way, just in a “oh god shut up now” way. If you don’t read a lot, you should start now. Ninth grade is ridiculously easy, you should have plenty of time to get a few canonical works out of the way. Read Plato!</p>
<p>You should work on developing a particular skill, like really work and spend a few hours every day, so then junior year you can enter a bunch of contests and such for that skill. It’s fun, and colleges will be influenced by demonstrated, unique skill much much more than they would by your participation in some stupid Stop Litter! club.</p>
<p>But yeah, high school’s really easy. Most people who bug out are just anxious people who get themselves stressed over nothing.
Like yours truly, hahaha. God damn AP Stats.</p>
<p>As you guys say, high school is pretty easy, but how come only like 10-30% go to universities? D:
So I was looking at my cousin’s Barrons AP biology or something(she now goes to berkeley, perfect 4.00 in high school 4years, but rejected by stanford). It looked kinda odd, but I only skimmed through it. How come so little get like above a 3.75(unweighted) in high school. Is it just too hard? Or are people just lazy and dumb?</p>
which are very fun. And I remember the seniors being incredibly intimidating, but don’t worry we won’t bite :)</p>