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digigirl132
2010-01-18 11:35 am UTC (link)

Also, based in my experience in two separate schools, high school is nothing like college at all.

In high school I had almost no homework, because we had time in class to do it (and at one school, we had 20 minutes at the end of the day to do any work we had). That generally keeps grades up, because people are doing the work. But when you get to college, a lot of the work is done at home, and if you don't get the work done or develop good study habits then you are going to fail.

Also, deadlines. If there's one thing I wish they were stricter about in high school, it's deadlines. So many of my classmates flunked out of college because they couldn't turn anything in on time.

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	librarianmouse 2010-01-18 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	I was one of those "smart kids." I graduated from high school with a GPA of around 4.3, and about 25 college credits. Then I almost flunked out of my first semester of college because I had no idea how studying worked, since I'd never done it before. So I happen to think that this guy is in for a very rude awakening rather soon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	digigirl132 2010-01-18 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, this has to be his first year of college. Though I'm surprised he made it through the fall semester. (Reply to this)(Parent)

frequentmouse
2010-01-19 09:30 pm UTC (link)

I was one of the other sort: graduated from high school with a 2.3; that munificent GPA was dragged upwardfrom 1.9 after a senior year where I was always above 3.5.

My first two years in College, drawing on the stuff I was learning in the library and at home, I got a 3.9; then I went to Evergreen and got great if slightly befuddled evaluations; then I took a second BA and graduated Summa, with mostly grad level classes.

And then my brain fell out and I dropped out of grad school, because hyperfocus only takes you so far.

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