Is a B+ in year 11 high school good or bad?
Can you be more specific? That is, do you mean you received a B+ on one assignment? In one class? As an average for your grades for your junior year?It's certainly not a bad grade; a B+ average would gain you access to any public institution in your state (assuming all other areas of your application were deemed complete and acceptable), and would probably be enough to be admitted to excellent universities in other states. And if you have received a B+ on one assignment or in one class -- that is, if this B+ is the lower exception to an otherwise stellar career -- then you don't have anything to worry about.
Is it bad to take a fifth year of high school? Why or why not?
Why would you want to do a fifth year?If you have failed courses needed to graduate and can’t make them up in summer school, night school, or online you may need a fifth year.3. If you really blew it in your freshman year, but show marked improvement in the following years and still fall into the category in #1 and can finish before your nineteenth birthday, it will not look all that bad.4. If you can complete everything you are missing in the first semester of your fifth year, it doesn’t look as bad.
Does freshman year of high school actually matter to colleges?
Yes, your freshman year of high school does actually matter! There are a few main pieces that schools are looking at when they evaluate your freshman year:1. GradesWhile your freshman year grades are not the most important ones, they still need to be strong! Especially if you’re applying to competitive schools, you’ll want to show that you have pushed yourself and excelled in challenging classes all of high school.Taking APs or honors (especially if your school doesn’t allow freshmen to take APs) is important to start off on the right track for the rest of high school. Because you’re evaluated within the context of your school, you want to make sure you are taking advantage of all that your school has to offer.A few B’s freshman year is not the end of the world, but you’ll need to make sure that you have an upward trend for the rest of high school.2. InvolvementWhen admissions officers evaluate your entire high school experience, they are looking for sustained involvement. This means that activities you start in freshman year should be carried out through senior year. If you hop around from activity to activity, that is an indicator of a lack of focus.But say you join the school newspaper freshman year, become a section editor sophomore year, get a summer internship at your local city paper junior summer, become editor-in-chief senior year and work as the teaching assistant for the journalism class. This shows that you’ve developed your passion of journalism. For tips on how to find your passion in high school, read this blog!Your interests are sure to change throughout high school, but using freshman year as an opportunity to explore and get involved is key!3. DevelopmentOff of that involvement note, schools will want to see how you have developed since freshman year. Your freshman year is the best time for you to start figuring out the path you will take for the rest of high school. How you have moved forward both in and outside of the classroom is an important point of evaluation, as it is an indicator of how you will continue to develop in college.Freshman year of high school is not something you should throw away. Colleges do care about it. They care a little less about grades, as long as you have an upward trajectory. That being said, they care a lot about the path you have taken since freshman year. Displaying sustained involvement, impact, and a clearly developed passion is key.
Will taking 5 years to complete high school look bad in college?
I wouldn’t think so. Explain in your application that you took one year abroad between your junior and senior high school years.Explain why you took this year abroad, what you did, and what you learned. It’s a positive experience, and I expect many colleges will see it favorably.
Do free periods during senior year look bad to colleges?
My school has a block schedule (A&B). 4 classes each day. I am thinking about dropping 2 classes. So that will leave me with a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th hour. I already don't have an 8th hour. I am in a summer college program and have been since sophomore year. I take college courses during my summer and I will most likely do that again this summer. I have also taken 3 college classes total during the actual school year. I am considering getting an internship at the local vet and I will be applying for a job. So it's not like I'll be at home doing nothing. I'm not planning on attending a prestigious school. I am going to finish my associates at community college (though now a University) and I will then attend USU in Provo, Utah. Basically, does a short schedule look bad?
Will being in high school for 5 years affect my college applications?
I agree with Ahmed to a certain extent, but I can see some possible positives. After your bad year, did you get your act together and make really good grades? I think that will work in your favor. Also, you’ll be a year older and (hopefully) a year more mature. That may work for you.If you really need to prove yourself for big-league college, enroll in your local community college, work REALLY HARD, get good grades, then apply to the college of your choice. Proving that you can do college level work will go a long way to showing admissions officers that you’re ready.
Is it bad to struggle in freshman year of high school if I want to go to a prestigious college?
It is what it is. Recognizing the problem is the first step to solving it. Now you need to get your act together!Will it affect your college admissions? Absolutely! That’s the bad news. But it’s not the end-game yet. That’s the good news.I struggled in high school because I went from public school up to the 8th grade where all my teachers passed me own because “He just will never do his homework if it doesn’t interest him but he’s obviously so smart so I passed him anyway”. I mostly just breezed through school without doing much because I charmed my teachers.My parents recognized the risk of this. The real world is not so easily charmed and generally you can’t get away with that shit successfully.So I got dropped into a tough college prep high school that kicked me in the ass hard. I had a D and F my first semester! It woke me up quick and I quickly had straight A’s by my senior year and learned how to study. This prepped me really well for engineering school - I had a 4.0 the whole time.Those initial bad grades definitely pulled my GPA down and that affected some of my college admissions.The way I spun it in my applications (and it pretty much worked) was to be open and honest about it and then emphasize how I’d learned from it quickly and then proved with my later grades that I had the ability to get my grades up which indicated I was better able to handle adversity and challenges than the average student!That line of argument worked pretty well. But you have to actually improve for this spin to work!
Foreign exchange/ study abroad in high school/ college?
I am really interested in study abroad, or to be specific, to experience other culture. I love to travel, and been to several places ever since I was little. However, I also have high expectation of myself and I want to go to colleges like Brown or Columbia, not to mention having parents that are fairly strict and asks for high grade. So... here are some of my q's: 1.) What's the difference between foreign exchange student through organizations like Rotary and to study abroad through a college? (ex: where do I live, who i stay with, cost, culture experience.....and so on) 2a.) It quite obvious that good colleges require 4 years of English/ math/ science/ history/ foreign languages. But if I go on foreign exchange, how am I going to get those credits in high school? 2b.) Do I have to be in high school for 5 years? (4 years of education plus 1 year of foreign exchange) 3.) Can you still participate in the foreign exchange program of Rotary if you are not a member or anything? 4.) If I go after high school and before college, do I apply for college before I go? 5.) Been a foreign exchange student probably does look good, but does 5 yrs of high school make me look bad on college application? 6.) I know you can earn credit while you are exchanging, but since you don't know the language, don't you grades look horrible? What does college think of that? 7.) what does the studying abroad programs the colleges offer do? 8.) if you been a exchange student through rotary, can you share your experience? lots of thanks!
Does it look bad to graduate in 5 years?
Probably not. Many people take more than 4 years to graduate just because they change their majors or need to retake failed classes. Having a dual major is already a perfectly good reason to take an extra year to graduate, and studying abroad just gives you another reason. If any graduate school or employer asks it should be very easy to explain why you took an extra year, and how it enhanced your studies and learning. Have fun studying abroad!