<p>its really sad how young kids are freaking out about college.. and how little girls go to libby lu to dress like britney spears..</p>
<p>theres something wrong with society.</p>
<p>everyone should just do what they want for themselves. not for college.</p>
<p>yeah...no sense in planning your high school career around college...</p>
<p>and what is up with this schedule-posting all over the place? I don't get it lol. Why do people need to compare schedules? It's not like it's that important, as long as you're taking the "most challenging" courseload. (I didn't even take as many APs as a bunch of kids in my school but still got into top colleges. So yeah, lol. Stop stressing)</p>
<p>Middle School success leads to High School success which determines where you go to college</p>
<p>it really does matter to get a good job</p>
<p>our country's obsession with college will lead to its downfall</p>
<p>First of all, please avoid posts which would make any CC member feel unwelcome. We pride ourselves as being a community that's friendly to all members, regardless of their status or level of college knowledge.</p>
<p>I think there's a good point here, though - 7th & 8th graders shouldn't be obssessing about SAT scores and the like. However, there are LOTS of important decisions that need to be made in starting high school - which course tracks to choose, whether to get involved in a lot of ECs, etc. Often, academic tracks are difficult to change once one is committed, so devoting some early thought to it isn't a bad idea. I wouldn't recommend choosing ECs based on what a college admissions officer might want, but if you are going to worry about that you might at least be well-informed.</p>
<p>The students likely to be disappointed are the ones who start thinking about college seriously only later in junior year. By that time, most of the academic and EC decisions have been made, and the process of college admissions becomes mainly how to present things to best advantage.</p>
<p>Think of college process as a long trip, say from New York to California. You probably wouldn't just jump in the car and start driving - you'd take a look at the map and either create a detailed plan or at least choose an initial path that you know will be going in the right direction and will give you some good options for later alternate routes. As you are cruising west on Route 80 you don't have to study the map obsessively - you know you are headed the right way, and an occasional glance to check progress is sufficient.</p>
<p>"Middle School success leads to High School success which determines where you go to college</p>
<p>it really does matter to get a good job"</p>
<p>But Rog, look at that logic. Just look at it! Tell me there arent a MILLION things wrong with it.</p>
<p>I wish I started thinking about college in middle school, I didn't even care about grades until mid sophomore year. Now I'm playing catch up.</p>
<p>Haha....I am very proud of you for going on that date! I always like to see people realize their is so much more to life then worrying. Trust me though, you will so much time to spare it will be unreal. I started preparing for the LSAT 14 months before I took it and later realized I only needed 5 or 6 at most. I just hope you don't waste your high school years like so many people do when trying to plan for college. They are some of the best years you can have, and you can never have them back once you are done!</p>
<p>oh my gosh.</p>
<p>a few middle schoolers start surfing CC, and everyone automatically assumes we're OBSESSED over sats and grades. what if we just think its fun to dream about college, while gaining insightful knowledge about what we should be doing for the next four years of our lives?</p>
<p>personally, i don't even think about the SAT, except for taking the 'question of the day' .. most other middle schoolers on here probably dont think about it, either. it isn't a big deal if we want to learn more the whole college admissions process.</p>
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"Middle School success leads to High School success which determines where you go to college</p>
<p>it really does matter to get a good job"
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Eek. If that's your train of thought, you need to reexamine your priorities. Where you go to college doesn't automatically determine the rest of your life.</p>
<p>This is backtracking quite a bit in the thread, but I second the "Ivy centric" concern of an earlier poster. Why not just put these 8 into the "Top Colleges" with everywhere else?</p>
<p>I think it's fine for middle schoolers to use CC as a college learning center, but I become most concerned when they begin asking, "How do I improve my chances?" I think that is the point where learning translates into something else entirely.</p>
<p>My Name Is Harry Potter!</p>
<p>And I Say To All You Young 'uns</p>
<p>Middle Schoolers Be Gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Poof</p>
<p>They Seize To Exist</p>
<p>And The World Lives Happily Ever After</p>
<p>there is a reason that on here the 8 ivy are in its own category</p>
<p>its the best in its league out of everything</p>
<p>except stanford/chicago</p>
<p>False. The eight schools in the Ivy League are in the Ivy League because they are all really old schools in relatively close proximity to one another who used to be really good sports. Yeah, that's right. The Ivy League is an athletic conference!</p>
<p>Your statements show your ignorance.</p>
<p>Yankee is quite correct. The Ivy League dominated way back when. Due to this success they started a legacy of families attending their schools. Most of the best athletes end up being quite wealthy, it was that way then and is to this day the same. So, when the rich families started sending their kids through college, where did they go? The Ivies, and most of those kids had private education their whole loves....and lots of it, making them typically more successful then most. That is how the Ivies came to be the way they are. Plenty of schools that aren't in the IVY lague are just as good if not better then the ivies.....look @ UCB, it is a great school with killer grad schools, but is far from the ivy league. The ivy schools just have the reputation of being around 4ever and everyone wanting to go there.</p>
<p>Having read all the posts you can see both sides of the fight, but in the end if you worry to much as a middle schooler on, you may lose you hair at early ages of adulthood. Just chillax, everything will come through if you just pay attention in class and do your homework. It's good to be preparing yourself for college but just never obsess on it, you may end up alone in life.</p>
<p>I remember when i was in middle school that the teachers would tell us "You have to prepare for college right now, or else you will find yourself doing everything last minute as you do right now. And that's not very good, is it?" and the whole class would say "nooo." Now I realize that middle school teachers were crazy, and that we don't need to prepare for college when we're in middle school. I'm a sophmore and I have an idea about where I want to go and what I want to major in, but anything can happen in two years, but still, I hang on to the idea that I have right now.</p>
<p>Seriously, I have a very hard time believing any of the posters who claim to be middle schoolers on the forum are actually in middle school. More like middle aged, all charged up about where they want their kids to go to school.</p>
<p>they are trying to look intellectual</p>
<p>utahfootball great advice... thankyou!</p>