Thanks for the replies! First time using this site. To make my situation clearer, I’m looking to major in Computer Science.
After reading all of your replies, I’m feeling slightly overwhelmed. I’m realizing this is a lot more involved than I thought it was going to be. However, when I think to myself what would be my ideal plan, I think attending Stanford, spending 1-2 (possibly 3 if special circumstances arise) years in undergraduate, and then attending Stanford for graduate school as well. But then part of me feels like it would be much more efficient to simply finish my Bachelors here at UF and then try to transfer into a graduate program. I think what I’ll do is try to contact Stanford directly and find out what exactly would be the procedure for transferring my existing credit. I feel torn between not wanting to spend time retaking basic classes, and wanting to go to a high-end school. However, some of you have said that many of these high-end schools are used to students having already taken relatively basic classes like Calculus and Physics, so maybe that won’t be such a problem.
Also, what else could I do during my senior year to possibly make my college application look better? Try to join clubs or some other extracurricular? The only real extracurricular I did in high school was play varsity soccer in 8th, and 9th grade. I’m really into videography, visual effects and motion graphics so in my freshman year I joined my schools AV club. Unfortunately, I ended up quitting within a week as the teacher was forcing us to use software like iMovie and refused to let me use the Adobe Creative Suite and 3D programs. I would love to join a programming club, but unfortunately my school is in a very rural area and the closest thing we have to a programming class/club is a class for learning the Office Suite. Also I have been producing music/playing piano for 5-6 years and would love to join some kind of music production club, I looked at UF and I think they had something but last I heard it was very small maybe only 5-10 people. Would joining a programming/video/music club at UF help my application? I’m not sure if this sounds crazy or not, but since I’ve already completed my high school graduation requirement and AA requirements, should I just not take any courses at all my senior year and try to focus on extracurriculars? Not to mention that if a school has a dual enrollment credit limit, it wouldn’t make sense to try and get more credits.
I’m feeling confused with regards to whether I should just get my bachelors here, or go to another school and try to finish there. Also some of you have been mentioning that on top of all this I need to be checking my chances in getting into graduate school if I get my bachelors here. I feel clueless. Hopefully through more conversation, you wonderful people can help me figure this out.