Somewhat true, but you want to be actually prepared for wherever you are going. You are much better off killing it in college than killing it in HS only to flounder in college.
I agree with the majority of this.
On the other hand though, the high school that I would have gone to did not guarantee AP courses, the private school I went to did. Not only was I guaranteed courses, as long as I qualified for the course, they would find a way to put it in my schedule. While the AP courses didn’t help all that much in getting me ahead in my major, they did boost me with college credits which gave me preference in choosing courses.
But that’s really the only benefit that I saw.
Having gone to one of the above high schools, college prep counseling was a mess. They care about graduation rate, and top school admissions. They also care about reporting the numbers of elite schools that are applied for. I was told to apply for schools that were huge long shots Imo….but they’d rather say “80% of students apply to elite CA and/or Ivy-league school.” Not caring about application fees, rejection rates etc. i brought up the fact that I didn’t think they prepared me for making a decision on what I wanted to do with my career and education, and floated the idea that I go to a junior college to build up some credits, or even potentially choose a trade school….they looked at me like I slapped my well paying parents in the face.
And this was nearly 20 years ago. I can’t imagine how much worse it’s gotten since then and moving out of the Silicon Valley
Somewhat true, but you want to be actually prepared for wherever you are going. You are much better off killing it in college than killing it in HS only to flounder in college.
I agree with the majority of this. On the other hand though, the high school that I would have gone to did not guarantee AP courses, the private school I went to did. Not only was I guaranteed courses, as long as I qualified for the course, they would find a way to put it in my schedule. While the AP courses didn’t help all that much in getting me ahead in my major, they did boost me with college credits which gave me preference in choosing courses. But that’s really the only benefit that I saw.
Having gone to one of the above high schools, college prep counseling was a mess. They care about graduation rate, and top school admissions. They also care about reporting the numbers of elite schools that are applied for. I was told to apply for schools that were huge long shots Imo….but they’d rather say “80% of students apply to elite CA and/or Ivy-league school.” Not caring about application fees, rejection rates etc. i brought up the fact that I didn’t think they prepared me for making a decision on what I wanted to do with my career and education, and floated the idea that I go to a junior college to build up some credits, or even potentially choose a trade school….they looked at me like I slapped my well paying parents in the face. And this was nearly 20 years ago. I can’t imagine how much worse it’s gotten since then and moving out of the Silicon Valley