Quote:
Originally Posted by Senusret I
^^^ I'm with you. I loved EVERY second of high school. I was able to do soooooo many things I wouldn't have had the chance to do otherwise....studying abroad, hosting a Russian, quiz bowl, FBLA....that's in addition to the "big" things like Senior Class President and Student Government.
I even joined FHA for a semester!
|
Not to totally derail the thread - I remember having a lot of fun in high school, and really enjoying it. I was pretty high up in the class (#6, and our top 7 were seperated by something like .000001 in GPA), was on the baseball team, and really didn't have any enemies. As I've gotten older though, my memories of high school seem less rosy - I'm not exactly sure why that is.
As to high GPAs - my high school didn't get up to 5, but you could have higher than a 4.0 if you took AP courses. I took 6 in high school and ended up with something like a 4.3. It sounded weird when I was putting it on college applications, but I never got asked about it, so I assumed a lot of schools did something similar.
Our valedictorian ended up staying in state, I think he got a free ride. He wanted to be a teacher, got a free education with which to accomplish that goal, and has now been a high school history teacher for a few years. It seems like he's very well liked throughout the school and local educational community, so things worked out exactly how he wanted. The in-state schools are very reasonably priced, although most people end up at UConn. In fact, I'm paying less for 4 years of law school (I'm an evening student) than my undergrad was charging for 1.5 years of tuition when I was there.
Now that I think about it, the post-high school choices of the top 10 in my class were pretty widely varied. There were a few teachers, a couple of med students and law students, and at least one successful commercial and movie actress.