<p>^ Not all the time, you never know when you will struck gold and become billionaire and live off in your private island. As for high school, there are a lot of high schools that gave little preparations for students to go into a great school.
My school is much like yours, I believe. Supposedly, the Class of 2010 is the smartest class my school had ever got * with kids having an average GPA of like 3.7*, but that’s due to a massive grade inflation. My school is 10 years old, but NO ONE had ever gotten into the IVY schools, or any other school ranked in the top 20. Sad? Maybe. We got one kid into Tufts this year, but in their Fine Arts Program and a girl got into B.C, but she had “special circumstances.” Even the valedictorian in my class got rejected from top schools, and his records are the highest my school ever had. So, I believe that some schools are just ill prepared in giving kids that boost to getting the education they want sometimes.</p>
<p>I suppose this is one of the reasons why you should be sending kids to high school that are as challenging.</p>
<p>But why reject kids from grade inflated schools when someone has taken Honors/APs in there?</p>
<p>Besides knowledge, high school also prepares you for life.
I learn about Pascal, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, etc, yet I also learn how to befriend a person of my complete opposite.
I learn about the complexity of the society by theory and by practice.
Too many things, in fact, to be posted in words.</p>
<p>School does prepare you for college. You just don’'t become smart all of a sudden, you see.</p>
<p>^^ I really don’t know why a ton of kids in my school got rejected. Our SATS were fine, an average from 1900 to 2200 and the no.1 has a GPA of like 4.5 or something with crazy ec’s and yet he got denied from Amherst and Dartmouth. The same thing happened in the past years. The grade inflation only happens because my school have a fifth level for special kids, the weights for honors and A.Ps are screwed ( there’s a 4 points difference between a C.P and and A.P in my school, which is a really bad wieghting system). Almost everyone take A.P’s and yet everyone is getting denied left and right. My school have a very hard time of sending kids to good competitive colleges, and most of the time everyone from the top 20% end up in a state school. I really don’t know why this happen to my school a lot, and not to surrounding towns.</p>
<p>I think that high school isn’t just a road to college, but a journey itself.</p>
<p>I think I’ll be sad when I graduate, but I’m looking forward for the challenges (and rewards) or college.</p>
<p>High school is okay. I have to make the most of it, considering I have another 3+ years left. I’m learning how to be more social (I’m kinda quiet), learning how to create better study habits, and becoming responsible.</p>
<p>Sure, most of the kids in my grade are immature (from a freshman standpoint), but I learned to be assertive and find friends in older grades (mostly sophomores and juniors, but one of my best friends is a senior guy).</p>
<p>I think that even though some classes are boring, they are a lesson within themselves. Not everything in life will be fun, you just gotta suck it up and make the most of it. You also learn how to form relationships with teachers, learn how to manage time, etc.</p>
<p>Long ramble, sorry!</p>
<p>High school tends to get better as you get older.</p>
<p>I feel like I would like HS if I didn’t go to this “great” high school that actually pretty terrible. Grades are SO inflated and probably 1/2 of kids take AP classes and 1/4 take the most rigorous course-load possible. There are also some immaturity problems. Still, there are things I’m DEFINITELY gonna miss!</p>
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<p>False statement.</p>
<p>I can’t wait til I get past the 52 Weeks of Junior Year, then life will be good. Sophomore Year needs to end first.</p>
<p>Junior year was my favorite year. It’s not that hard.</p>
<p>Well, glad to know some of you had a good experience in High School, while others haven’t.</p>
<p>I think HS was okay, but in middle school I just couldn’t wait to feel older and thought HS would be like heaven. I think what makes your HSL really different is the friends that you make. My school is so small that I didn’t really make any really close friends, so I really can’t wait to get out of here. I’m tired of seeing the same students/teachers for over 4 years. HS is just a time full of awkwardness, gossip, popularity games, and finding who you are. I can’t wait for college, a time full of new beginnings, people, and exciting adventures/ experiences. I just hope I’m not expecting too much from college, the worst thing that could happen is that I start wishing I was back in HS</p>
<p>^ I really hope MattNC, Cody2010, Saugus, Fairy<em>dreams and Hi</em>I’m_Leila are currently reading that because we all do recognize how bad HS is. Thank goodness, college will be a new start socially and academically.</p>
<p>^ Oh wait, I’m not in college yet, so I don’t know if it will be better than HS, but it will definitely be a drastic and life-changing experience, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>I’ll miss my friends, but I am so ready to move on with my life. High school is just so redundant and I don’t learn or do anything productive.</p>
<p>Onto the next one!</p>
<p>I cant wait to get out of high school… And cant wait to go to college!!
The only thing I’m going to miss about my high school are my friends…other than that that’s basically it.</p>
<p>You guys have been mentioning grade inflation quite a bit on this thread.
So I wish to interject. I HATE GRADE INFLATION. I know people who finished off the semester with an 85% in a certain class, but that 85 magically showed up as an A on their transcript. Students can go and buy lunch for teachers in order to win them over and give them that extra boost when it comes to grading subjective items such as essays. It’s not a single-subject issue either. I see it happen in math, foreign language, english, science, et cetera. Everything.</p>
<p>My grade has too many people with over a 4.0, and half of them didn’t do nearly enough to deserve that 4.0. Since when was buying your teacher a salad a reason to get an A? Mehhh.</p>
<p>^I would want at least Pizza if I was a teacher.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, seriously. Then I can give them an A+ instead of just an A.</p>
<p>I’d want a muffin to go with that pizza, though. :/</p>
<p>Pizza from Pizza Hut will guaranteed an A++.</p>
<p>Pizza from the cafeteria–yeah, this person is dying to get an F in my class.</p>