<p>I go to a very small high school. It offers no AP classes, and only a few dual enrollment/honors (school in FL=FCAT prep instead of furtherment in actual learning). Am I going to be that far behind when i get to college? I'm afraid I'm going to be over my head. I've done really well in all of the classes I've taken at the local community college, but I'm kind of worried.</p>
<p>i believe when you apply to colleges they see what classes are offered at your school, so they'll know that no ap clases were offered. however, you should therefore look into taking more classes at your cc if you can. and also, some colleges don't even take ap credits, so in some cases it won't make a difference</p>
<p>Or self study some APs if you are really paranoid</p>
<p>There are some places you can take AP courses online or through correspondence. I'm not sure who is the best for that, but I know CTY offers that option.</p>
<p>I've already gotten into college. I'm just worried that everyone will magically be "smarter" than me. I dunno. I'm going to the University of Florida and everyone around here keeps telling me "you're going to fail," "it's so hard," "no one from lake placid ever succeeds there"...etc.</p>
<p>I'm also from FL so maybe I can give you a better idea. UF is a pretty good school, it is also very big so I get the idea you will need to be self disciplined enough to get all your work done and "party" at the same time. Obviously if you have done well in high school you should pretty much have that part down. I would say the best thing you can do is work on what you know your weakness is. If you don't like english get a hold of a suggested list of reading for college students. If you don't like math / science try picking up some science magazines that way you can absorb the scientific information, but in your prefered format (english). I'm from south florida and a private school, even though I don't take FCAT all of my friends in public school hate them and say the system doesn't really work. If most of your classes focus only on FCAT stuff I would go to your teachers and address them with your concerns, maybe they could give you an outline of all that stuff they "would have loved to cover in class, but ran out of time for." UF admissions have been getting harder over the years, many B+ average students from my school got denied this year, most got killed by not studying for SAT's; so congrats on getting in.</p>
<p>thanks irishdancer. That helped a lot. These are probably the same fears that every person coming from a slightly sub-par education system feels. :)</p>