<p>Hi there!
Where I live, we have 5 or so different high schools that we can pick from. In some cases you'll be leaving your friends behind. What is your stance on this? Would you leave friends you've known for 8 years to pursue a more rigorous education or for other things?</p>
<p>I’ve always thought colleges looked at the best you could do at your highschool. So say at one high school you could take 4 APs but at the other you could only take 2. If you go to the one where you can only take two colleges would look and see you’ve taken the most rigorous course load even though at the more rigorous one if you had taken 2 APs they would look and say “oh he only took half”. I may be wrong though.</p>
<p>As a rising freshmen, I probably wouldn’t have. I didn’t care about education much but loved my friends. </p>
<p>As a rising senior, I would want to punch little me in the face. Most of my middle school friends are no longer friends, I have a very different group of friends now. So it might have been a quicker break but the outcome wouldn’t be any different if I chose to leave my friends behind, or stick with them. </p>
<p>Although I am pretty argumentative/persuasive. It seems like your town has 5 public high schools and you can pick, rather than being assigned to one based on location. If that is the case I’d just force my friends to pick the same one, lol.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t care about leaving friends behind, mostly because I don’t have friends, but I probably wouldn’t go to the most rigorous school either. The competition would kill me. I don’t want to ever meet a CCer-type person in real life. At least in high school.</p>
<p>Go to the best school for you.
Middle school friends disappear after the first semester of freshman year</p>
<p>I did leave my friends behind (not that I had any). I went to a private school for 9 years then switched to a public school for high school. I was so mad about it for a long long time. And honestly I’m still a bit mad at my parents for forcing me to. But my new school is great (I’m a rising Senior). I’m not bullied like at my old school, it has AP/IB classes, unlike my old school (my old school had a rigorous education to, just not the standardized classes, and this school is just a few blocks from my house. It has it’s downsides to like I’m not with most of the people I’ve been with since Kindergarden, but I don’t talk to most of them anyway. Go with the school that’s best for YOU, not your friends.</p>
<p>The type of school that I go to is one where students are moving all the time. I have to make new friends all the time because half of my friends move away every year. </p>
<p>So honestly it’s no big deal for me.</p>
<p>Bailey has a good point. Middle school friends don’t always last and if I were you, I would pursue a more rigorous education. Friends are obviously important, but groups change as you transition into high school, so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>I switched from private school to public school for high school because the public school offered more AP classes. I had a hard time adjusting at first and I missed my old friends and the atmosphere of my old school, but it worked out okay in the end. I found a new group of friends at my high school and I’m still in contact with my three best friends from private school.</p>
<p>That’s what I did (though I took along the only kid in my old school who even came close to being my friend). I had 4 (private) schools to choose from coming out of my (private) elem, and I picked the one I liked the best, which was the one with the best academics. I’m still friends with that one kid I brought along, but I made SO MANY amazing friends.
On the other hand, my sister did the same thing and now hates it. Problem is, she had more friends in elem who all went together to our old school’s feeder school</p>