<p>I know this is a super long read, but I would really appreciate the advice. Thanks in advance. </p>
<p>Alright, I’m currently a junior in high school (well I guess senior now). I go to an all-boys Catholic school in San Francisco. It’s a good school academically, but there are others that are better. Anyways, I have a 4.0 uw GPA, and got a 2120 on the SAT I the first time around. I’m waiting to get back my scores for the June test. I haven’t taken SAT II’s yet either. I’m ranked 1/178 in my class. I’ll have taken 8-9 APs by graduation. I also play varsity bball (starter junior and senior year), I’m the president of the European-American Club, and I’m in stuff like NHS too. </p>
<p>Anyways, I just got out of school, and have started summer bball. I hate it. It’s not fun anymore. I don’t like practice, I don’t like the games, and I don’t like my teammates. I dread going to practice everyday. It just plain sucks. Oh, and to complicate matters, my dad is the head coach. He isn’t super hard on me, but it would obviously be hard to tell him I want to quit. Too be honest with you, I don’t really like my school very much either. I don’t really fit in, at all. My school revolves around the hip-hop culture, and I’m from a small suburban area that is mostly white. I like my school’s diversity, but I don’t like the fact that white kids (20% of student body) aren’t accepted very well. </p>
<p>Then, this last Saturday at the SAT, I saw all my old friends from my old middle school. They all go to the local public high school. I realized how much I missed them. How much I’d missed out on, not going to school with them? I especially missed all the girls, omg, I can’t tell you how much I miss them now. </p>
<p>So basically, I’m really bummed out right now. I realize how much I miss my old friends and that they were much better friends than the ones I have now from my HS. Here are my options. </p>
<li><p>I could stay at my school, and continue bball and try and reconnect with my old friends with a very busy schedule. This wouldn’t leave much time to reconnect with my old friends though. And I would still be miserable playing bball.</p></li>
<li><p>I could quit bball, but stay at my current high school. This would allow me to reconnect with old friends. However, it would probably leave me with a dearth of activities.</p></li>
<li><p>I could transfer to the public high school and continue to play bball. This would allow me to reconnect with my old friends and basketball might be more fun if I was playing with my old friends. Plus, bball there wouldn’t take up nearly as much time. They aren’t a top tier program and don’t practice everyday in summer. </p></li>
<li><p>I could transfer to the public high school and not play bball. This would allow me the most time to reconnect with my friends. However, I think it would probably look really bad to colleges. </p></li>
<li><p>I could stay at my current high school and continue to play bball and not try to reconnect with my friends. Accept that its too late and wait till college for girls. I hate this option, but if this is the only one that will get me into the schools I want to go to I might have to.</p></li>
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<p>I want to go to a top International Relations school like Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, or Stanford. </p>
<p>I got some questions. Would quitting bball look really bad on my application? What if I replaced it with another sport(s)? Would transferring look bad on my application? What would you do?</p>