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experiences with post secondary classes in high school.
i'm going to be a junior next year and am interested in doing a program they have at my school called post secondary where you can take some college classes along with your high school classes and basically be enrolled in college too.
kent state university is the college btw.
so has anyone ever done this or know anything about it?
if so i have some questions...
is it like a ton of work? i know its going to be a lot more but i just want to know the work load
were the ACTs really hard? [we have to take those to get it]
did it make you miss friends you normally got to see more?
do you think it was worth it?
thanks
i think i could do it, i get A's and B's and always want to do the highest classes i can haha so thanks for any advice! =]
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I live in Vegas and we have the same program, or at least close to it. Its a great program and gets you way ahead of the game. It can be frustrating at some times because of the difference in normality, financial needs, peers, and the workload you may receive on some weeks.
The work load all depends on your professor and the classes you take for highschool. Certain professors give homework, others don't. But your highschool classes will. Which means one day you may have very little if any HW, but another you may be up to your neck in papers. Not to be discouraging, but procrastination is no longer an ally(if it ever was) if you take the program.
Though I have yet to take the ACTs, I'm sure its about the same as normal highschool ACTs. I wouldn't know why they would increase the level of difficulty just because you go to a college for high school.
I personally don't and do miss old friends. There are things I could still do in my original highschool, but I never have the time, even though I can drive. But other people take the program as well, so you also make new friends. In a way, its somewhat better to make friends in the program, because there is less peer pressure and drama.
Sometimes I wonder if its worth all my day to do all these classes I take over my highschool classes. But then I realize every time I think about just dropping out and going back to my original high school, that I'm having a great opportunity to get use to college life now and am able to get the basic classes out of the way now and focus on career, unlike staying in a normal high school. There, all you can take is AP classes, but they are harder than actual college classes...
Overall, I recommend it. Its a great opportunity you should not pass up. Even if it means not being able to see your normal friends at school. You make new friends and are able to see your old ones when your not in school. Its a challenge, but its all worth it.
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