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Saturday, July 31, 2010

High School Students

High School is an educational institution that provides secondary level education (grades 9-12) and not only that, it is an introduction to college.

Sometimes I come across a few friends who say that they don't like school, so they just go careless with doing their homework and decide to not study at all. But guess what? If you don't study and don't do your homework then you are most likely to fail your class, and therefore you will stay longer in school.

Try your best, earning a high GPA/grade can do you many goods such as:
  • Get you a good student car insurance discount
  • Free/discount on your college tuition
  • Go to college earlier
  • More likely to be accepted in the university of your choice
  • You never know, your teacher might know someone that can hire you for a nice paying job on your field.
Be aware there are many programs out there offered at high school and you don't even know, the best advice is to go to your high school counselor and let him/her know your education goals and what you expect from high school so that you can get help.

Here is a list of some programs you could ask your counselor about it:
  • Dual Enrollment/Early Admission - This program offers you the opportunity to take college classes and earn it's credits while you still a high school student. http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/x5304.xml
  • Honors/AP Classes - These are high level classes offered to better prepare you to eventually go to college, they are usually harder and require extra work/effort. Honors GPA scale go up to 5 and AP GPA scale go up to 6, while regular classes may go up to 4.
  • Sports/Clubs - Participating in extra curricular activities after school such as sports and school clubs may earn you a positive look on your transcript when looking for scholarships and transferring to a higher level education.
The purpose of this blog is to provide you free tips and let you know things that sometimes counselors assume you know but u don't. If you are interested in any of the programs or anything discussed above, make sure you get help from your high school counselor.

Monday, July 26, 2010

College Vs. University

College is an educational institution which primarily provides the two-year basic general knowledge classes for any major. University is a higher level education institution which provides all sort of levels of classes from a basic general knowledge class to a Doctorate Degree.

Having that said, many students will think going to college is bad because it would sound bad on their transcript. Guess what? It doesn't, colleges tend to offer smaller classes with up to 20-40 students depending on the class subject while universities may have hundreds of students in the same class.

How does that help? Imagine yourself within one class and only one professor sharing his/her attention with hundreds of students, if you ever have a question you will probably need to write it down to ask a tutor later or ask a classmate, while in college you can simply raise your hand anytime and ask your professor. Having that in mind we can assume at some point that college is easier and therefore you should be able to maintain a good GPA and be able to transfer to an University easy as soon as you done with your AA degree.

Moreover, if you look it up at your local school tuition, you will find that college is way more affordable, and pretty much anyone can join as far as grading. The downside is that you will be only taking general knowledge core classes while in college, unless you apply as a transient student to start working on your electives at an university while you still in college.

At the end regardless of which school you went to, you will always be looked up from your higher level degree/diploma and your work experience. i.e: If you have a masters or doctorate degree at Harvard University, do you think anyone cares where you got your AA degree from? Think about it.