<p>I am getting bad years this junior year, c and d. Ahould i repeat junior year or go to community college and then transfer ?</p>
<p>You need to discuss your problems with your HS guidance counselor. You need to learn how to study effectively. Merely repeating courses won’t erase them from your transcript, if your HS allows this, nor will you do any better without changes. </p>
<p>I checked your other posts and you don’t seem to be a ■■■■■. You have big dreams but need a huge reality check. You are not learning the material taught very well with your grades. This leaves a large knowledge (and skills) gap compared to others who attend college. Your GC can help you figure out strategies for improving. You may not even be ready for community college unless you make changes.</p>
<p>Thank you for replying. I used to have good grades but due to depression and anxiety my grades suffered. So my problem is not in my study habits. So again i ask: should i repeat junior year or go to community college ?</p>
<p>I think it would be hard for us to advise you with the limited information we have. I do think that if you are battling anxiety and depression you should be in counseling or have some adult in your life that can help you find resources to help you. I don’t think going to community college will help unless you are experiencing the difficulty because of bullying or other issues that are confined to your school. Most likely if you went to CC you would need to take some prerequisite classes that would not count towards your Associate’s degree but would cost your family (depending on your state). I hope you can find a teacher/adult you respect and trust to help you through this.</p>
<p>Thanks again. But currently i am doing counseling. and what i meant is should i repeat junior year or stick with my ds and finish senior year then go to community college?</p>
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<p>So your high school is not requiring you to repeat courses? If you can move on to community college, I would vote for that, simply because as you get older, the high school environment can be harder to bear, and repeating would make you a year older than other students, and also make you feel, perhaps, more stigmatized.</p>
<p>If you have a counselor, then you can have documentation of your anxiety and depression. You should at the very least have a 504 plan at high school, with accommodations, and if you go to community college, check in with the disabilities office. It is possible that you can do better academically with a little more flexibility and support, which would be available to you with these problems.</p>
<p>I think that you need to have your mental health issues under control before you can worry about college. Once you are managing your mental health issues then you can begin to tackle the rest of your life. You DO NOT have to go to college the second you graduate from high school. You can wait a year, or even two or three years. </p>
<p>What do your parents say? Your guidance counselors? Your therapists?</p>
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<p>I am glad to hear you are in counseling. I hope that you have discussed your options with your counselor. Unfortunately, we don’t have the “whole picture” so it is difficult to advise. I would certainly not repeat 11th grade if it is not required. Four years of high school is difficult…I can’t imagine adding a year to that. Good luck.</p>
<p>Why are the choices “repeat 11th grade” or “go to CC”? What about go to 12th grade?
If you can’t do well in 11th grade, why do you think you will be successful in skipping a grade?</p>
<p>How successful has your treatment been? If your treatment is working and you are once again functional, get a 504 at your high school and proceed to 12th grade.</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s too soon to be worried about college. If you have just begun treatment, it is too soon to jump up to the next level of academic difficulty. Regardless of the reason, those D’s on your hs transcript indicate a knowledge deficit. Another year in high school (senior year, don’t repeat junior) might help you fill in some of those gaps and have you better prepared for community college after graduation.</p>
<p>Additionally, high schools are required by law to do more for a student with disabilities that colleges are. I think, until your depression and anxiety are well controlled, you may actually be better off (at least academically) in high school.</p>
<p>We can’t effectively advise you as we don’t know the details of your depression and anxiety, how you personally would be best served. This is a discussion for you, your counselor, doctor, guidance counselor, and parents. Yes, everyone needs to come together and weigh in on options and the best way for you to proceed. There may even be options you didn’t consider. For example, my gf’s daughter has struggled significantly with anxiety and depression, her self perceived role socially is taking on others problems which drowns her. While working on this, and other things in counseling, it was decided she would switch schools to a much smaller more rural high school. She allowed herself to break from that role, no one knew her so this was a fresh start. She’s doing very well finishing her Sr year. This is just one example of an alternate plan for someone struggling. No one could possibly suggest any creative alternative for you since we don’t know your details. Let those in your life who know you help you decide your next step. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for replying. I’ll get back to you with a more detailed post.</p>
<p>sytycd - I would caution you against posting personal details here. No matter how much you post, and no matter how well meaning people are, no advise you receive on an open Internet forum can replace the guidance of your support system at home…your parents, counselor, doctor, and guidance counselor. Please turn to these people for direction. They are the most familiar with you, your educational history, your healthcare, and family environment. Nothing can replace that knowledge base.</p>
<p>It’s also hard for people who don’t know your system to advice. There’s no way anyone getting Cs and Ds as a high school junior would be able to go to community college. That’s only open to high school grads or rarely to students who have maxed out in high school. Community college is harder and more advanced than high school here, so I can’t imagine what would be gained. You need to ask the people who are familiar with your system what makes sense.</p>
<p>my advisors and those who know me best have very little knowledge of the college system in america. Like i said, the only reason i am getting these grade are due to my anxiety which ahs taken over my life. What i meant by going to community college is after i finish senior year. the other option would be to repeat junior year in an attempt to get higher grades in order to head to 4 year university straight out of highschool. if i go with the community college option, would 4 year universities overlook my highschool record when i plan to transfer ? thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I’m assuming you live in another country, correct? If this is the case, the last thing I’d be thinking about is traveling abroad for study. Just keep making progress with your anxiety, work hard the rest of this year, and then, in the autumn of your senior year, evaluate your options. </p>
<p>My D struggles with depression and anxiety, and even though she had been very stable for a year, she chose to go to college close to home. She has plenty of time to go far off to grad school, and so do you.</p>
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<p>Sytycd, it seems to me that repeating the year would only make sense if something has changed that would lead to the reasonable belief that you would do better. So, if you had an awful semester while medication was kicking in but were now stable and achieving up to your abilities, it might make sense to take an extra year, not only to improve college chances but to make sure you’ve actually learned the material you couldn’t manage while you were unwell. </p>
<p>If, on the other hand, you’re still in the grips of crippling depression and anxiety, the best thing you could do, it seems to me, is focus on your mental health while trying to scrape through the rest of high school. Whenever you are more stable, whether it is next year or in ten years, there will be opportunities for you to get your life back on track. In the interim, having a high school degree is better than not having a high school degree, and the former is more likely to be achievable if you don’t hold yourself back while you are already in a very precarious mental state that might well make even fulfilling graduation requirements difficult.</p>
<p>But I’ll also echo everyone else: talk to the people who know you, or, if it is possible, to a professional who has details about your situation and enough of a background in such cases to provide better advice than we can.</p>
<p>There are other ways to do high school: online, and also programs for homeschoolers, including diploma-granting programs, and in the US, there is the GED.</p>
<p>Let me know if you want more info on any of these.</p>
<p>You can also start college with online courses if it is better for you to stay closer to home.</p>