<p>I attend a not so great high school. However, it's probably the best in the area.</p>
<p>I feel like I am completely unprepared for college. Compared to top high schools nationwide, my high school is a joke. I do not feel I have the knowledge and skills I should have for top colleges.</p>
<p>I don't know what I'm going to do but I'm going to try and prepare for college as best as I can this coming summer..</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel this way? What are you going to do about it?</p>
<p>I feel the same way lol. I was watching lectures on these opencoureware yesterday (I used UC Berkeley’s and Yale’s (only ones I could find with videos)]. I was actually trying to figure out what I want to do with my life (major). So I watched these, and I watched the first class (were proofs talk about expectations or w/e). I was like, “I never did anything remotely similar to that in high school.”</p>
<p>Bleh, oh well. I guess I will just try my hardest when I get to college. =)</p>
<p>Probably better to continue to work hard the entire school year than to work hard in the summer.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that most people don’t come from incredible high schools.</p>
<p>Prepared would be relative to the college you go to. The lower UCs will have a much lower bar for preparedness than MIT. However, colleges (atleast the decent ones) are not in the business of admitting people they think will fail. They don’t want failures. If you get in somewhere people who would know who is and isn’t prepared think you are prepared.</p>
<p>^ Well I want to go to Harvey Mudd. But if I don’t get in, maybe I’ll get into Cornell or Yale since I have legacy, and Yale doesn’t have the most reputable engineering program so its a plus for applicants. But realistically, I think I would be able to handle going to my safeties, UCI and UCD, and would fit in well at UCSD.</p>
<p>I want to be able to go to Harvey Mudd and succeed there if I get in. However, I don’t know if I’ll succeed/ look like a moron.</p>
<p>I’m in Calc BC and I have many holes in my education, in math, mainly for precalculus. You’d think it would be because I skipped pr-calculus- but the truth is the precalc class at my school is nothing more than a second algebra II honors class.</p>
<p>I took AP Euro Sophomore year and got a 1, even though I had an A and B+ for my semester grades. The teacher was teaching it for the first time.</p>
<p>My AP Chemistry class was a failure as well… we all should have gotten F’s but since the teacher was fired she gave us all As/A-s. Only one person passed with a 3 and she’s probably going to Harvard.</p>
<p>My honors physics class was a huge joke. I was one of the best students in that class and I don’t feel I learned jack ****.</p>
<p>Literature I feel somewhat prepared, but definitely not after I took the SAT Lit subject test today. Makes me feel like I’m a failure in that too.</p>
<p>So basically I have limited knowledge in:</p>
<p>Pre-calculus
Physics
Chemistry
Literature
Geography
History- (I seriously don’t know ****, it’s really sad)</p>
<p>Not to mention I have no prior knowledge of Computer Science, which is a required freshman course at HMC.</p>
<p>Greatttttt.</p>
<p>And just as a note, I honestly don’t think I’m stupid. I don’t think I’m very intelligent either compared to a lot of people. I do however think I’m capable if I work hard. For example, I studied AP Psychology intensively for about two weeks and got a 4 on the exam. Not great, since Psych is suppose to be super easy, but it still says something.</p>
<p>^Don’t be so negative.</p>