How important is high school? ??

Is it odd that my high school had 4 different categories for classes based on how "smart" you are.



We had AP/Honors, A classes, B classes and C classes. I always found that really odd. Most of the classes I took were AP/Honors but what the hell were they teaching kids in C classes. :x
I don't think it's odd we had the 4 levels too. I believe it was (it's been 15 years) seminar, honors, academic, and basic. Where seminar and honors were both AP and I think seminar classes were BC AP and honors were AB. We also had the 7 point grading system so that 10 point system was lovely when I got to college.

I was taking ap Calc in 11th grade and I had friends in algebra 1a, that's the first year of a two year split out algebra class. Like come on man I took algebra in 7th grade. It's not that hard.
 
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Gradutated High School with 2.3.
Graduted Undergrad with 3.25
Graduated Grad School with a Doctorate with 2.8.


High School means squat.
 
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It's also kinda crazy getting low grades in public hs. I came from JA where I spent that last year skipping class and get a solid F because I knew I was moving to NYC, only to end up still being on track and being an A student without trying. I was like top 3 on every regents test. That stuff was surprisingly easy.
 
I had these things pulled after receiving my offer letter, but it was contingent on the background check / having the academic record.

Gotcha.
I usually keep multiple resumes in the tuck too. Can't be using the same one for everything out here.

It's also kinda crazy getting low grades in public hs. I came from JA where I spent that last year skipping class and get a solid F because I knew I was moving to NYC, only to end up still being on track and being an A student without trying. I was like top 3 on every regents test. That stuff was surprisingly easy.
I was a grade ahead when I was in Jamaica, came to America and they ignored that and made me take first grade over again. In hindsight it was the best move but my parents were super annoyed at the time.
 
These last two points are not true. Your college grades matter until you're about five years post grad and even then there's still a chance they get pulled.

Like I said employers are still pulling high school and college GPAs
Not in my field lmao , Ive never heard of this before.

Hell after the first job they don't even pull college GPA, just verify that you did graduate college.

High school doesn't matter much, only for getting into college. 
 
Nah, you can get a F500 gig straight out of college.
You can lol been working F500 before I even graduated college . Hired to a F500 straight out of school as well.
 
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Off the virtue that it's the primary factor in deciding what college you attend (if you do go to college) I would say it matters a lot
 
   Its only importance is for getting into college. I did terrible on the SAT & ACT and I still flourished .
 
****** in here on that Al Bundy "4 touchdowns in one game" tip [emoji]128514[/emoji][emoji]128514[/emoji] I ain't eem mad

I don't think high school matters THAT much, all you really gotta do is graduate...All that extra **** is cool I guess, getting 4.0s, valedictorian, etc but it don't really mean ****. as long as you got a plan you'll be good. It's all about the money at the end of the day.
 
Had a 3.5 in hs. First attempt at college had a 1.8. Took a few years off, went back in 2013 and worked my *** off to get that 1.8 up to a 2.4 right now. Meh.
 
I still don't know what employers are pulling HS grades unless you're fresh out of HS :lol:
It happened man idk what you guys want me to say.

Unless one works in a competitive field they don't understand how it's possible. When the difference between hiring someone and not is minimal firms will use everything possible. I had a friend who was going into PE after 2 years of M&A banking go through the same thing so I'm not shocked. But as a 24 year old you are getting 300k+ you will just go through it.

While it might mean little, a firm has the right to do what kind of background search as they see fit. Either you agree or you don't, your choice. So for those doubting him stop with the badgering.
 
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Great thread. I had a 2.3 in high school and just coasted. I think it's important socially and even more academically, so you have a variety of College's to attend. Without a high school diploma, you can;t even get a minimum wage job, so of course it's important.
 
I dont even remember my grades in HS anymore. if i had to gues, they were in the 2.8-3.0 range.

Never once do i believe my hs grades mattered. Went the community college route (had to retake the reading/writing entrance exam tho to get in.)

got at 3.9+ for my undergrad, and 3.5 for my masters. Dont think those grades were ever check except when i 'accidently' put my undergrad transcript in a application folder for a job. :smokin

with that said, hs was more of a social test than anything else. Molded or helped me understand what route i wanted to take in life.
 
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You guys keep saying stuff like this. You don't get college college scholarships without high school grades. Hell you can't even get even colleges without certain high grades. You guys are wylin man.

You can get many scholarships while in college depending on your previous semester college GPA, financial need or even by writing an intriguing essay many opportunities available in college
 
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You can get many scholarships while in college depending on your previous semester college GPA, financial need or even by writing an intriguing essay many opportunities available in college

yeah i didnt have the best highschool grades but my latter years at cuny were free...
 
Gradutated High School with 2.3.
Graduted Undergrad with 3.25
Graduated Grad School with a Doctorate with 2.8.


High School means squat.

For you it may not have mattered but that doesn't ring true for everyone.

If I got a 2.3 in HS there's a good chance I wouldn't be a doctor.

I truly didn't become highly self motivated until I made the final decision to apply to med school. I was fortunate to go to a HS that pushed and nurtured me in addition to having involved parents.

If I would've done poorly in HS and ended up going to a party school with bad habits I may have flunked out.
 
Graduated HS with a 4.3 and some of the top programs I got into were CAL, UCLA, John Hopkins, and Cornell.
BUT my HS was bottom tier, like my AP courses were JOKES, my counselors were inept, and our resources were far and few in between. Add in that my parents didn't know jack so I had to rely on the competitiveness of my cohort and push me outside of my comfort zone.

It really showed when I stepped into my UG and I got killed in classes like calc 2 :lol: :smh: Graduated with a 3.2 earlier this month and I'm thankful for the ride with no regrets.

HS taught me jack squat academically, but I was blessed to grow socially and be comfortable in any group setting and establish motivation to achieve in higher education. Also, my closest friends are from middle/high school. That being said, I know plenty of people who did jack in HS, grinded at our local juco, and earned a spot at places like CAL + UCLA.
 
Graduated HS with a 4.3 and some of the top programs I got into were CAL, UCLA, John Hopkins, and Cornell.
BUT my HS was bottom tier, like my AP courses were JOKES, my counselors were inept, and our resources were far and few in between. Add in that my parents didn't know jack so I had to rely on the competitiveness of my cohort and push me outside of my comfort zone.

It really showed when I stepped into my UG and I got killed in classes like calc 2 :lol: :smh: Graduated with a 3.2 earlier this month and I'm thankful for the ride with no regrets.

HS taught me jack squat academically, but I was blessed to grow socially and be comfortable in any group setting and establish motivation to achieve in higher education. Also, my closest friends are from middle/high school. That being said, I know plenty of people who did jack in HS, grinded at our local juco, and earned a spot at places like CAL + UCLA.

Who is this Jack you speak of?
 
went to 4 different HS and got kicked out all of them for attendance, fighting and drinking/smoking. Was a beast on the FB field though. Had letters of interest my JR yr from pac10/WAC schools but only played 1 game my SR year. Wish I would of took HS more seriously to get that free edu at the collegiate level.
School loans are a *****
 
Graduated HS with a 4.3 and some of the top programs I got into were CAL, UCLA, John Hopkins, and Cornell.
BUT my HS was bottom tier, like my AP courses were JOKES, my counselors were inept, and our resources were far and few in between. Add in that my parents didn't know jack so I had to rely on the competitiveness of my cohort and push me outside of my comfort zone.


It really showed when I stepped into my UG and I got killed in classes like calc 2 :lol: :smh: Graduated with a 3.2 earlier this month and I'm thankful for the ride with no regrets.


HS taught me jack squat academically, but I was blessed to grow socially and be comfortable in any group setting and establish motivation to achieve in higher education. Also, my closest friends are from middle/high school. That being said, I know plenty of people who did jack in HS, grinded at our local juco, and earned a spot at places like CAL + UCLA.


Again you are 1. Speaking about outliers 2. Undervaluing a high school education


No matter how horrible your high school is, having a 4.3 helped you get into an excellent school. I'm sure not everyone in your high school had a 4.3. You also said it helped you establish motivation and probably helped you with studying/discipline. Not all high schools are created equal, and that can get exposed when you get to college. That's the same way not all colleges are created equally, there are kids who are valedictorians coming out of low-tier state schools then get exposed in med school, while the guy with a 3.0 from Stanford excels. The students from the low-tier school wouldn't say "college is not important".

I have no idea what you're trying to drive at here. Of course high school means different for everyone and serves different purposes for different people.
This whole discussion is supposed to be a collection of the community's experiences. I'm not downplaying a HS education, but if you come from a piss poor school district I have trouble adding any kind of value to that, that's my highscool experience.
 
High school is very important. Even if you do bad all the people that end up being losers always fall back on how cool they were in HS and how crazy they were.
 
Graduated HS with a 3.7 and took several AP and honors classes. I quickly found out that doing all your homework and in-class assignments while only doing decently on tests would get you at least a B and so I barely tried. Unfortunately that wasn't the case in college, where tests make up a majority of your grade. In addition, my lackadaisical work ethic caught up with me my first few semesters of college and I had to redevelop my long-lost study habits before I was successful.

Generally speaking, high school education isn't vitally important. For me, I learned more useful information in late elementary school and middle school than I did in high school. Obviously your academic success translates to which college you attend, but I know several people who attended community college for a year or two, transferred to one of the top universities in the country, and graduated just a semester or two after (even a few at the same time as) those who attended the same school straight out of high school.

What is important about high school isn't so much the information you learn, but in how it develops you and how you prepare yourself for college, both in terms of academics and social life. High school is the time to take electives to get an idea of what you'd like to study and to brainstorm possible career paths. It's also the time to work out any middle school awkwardness, to establish a social circle, and to begin to break out of your comfort zone some so that it's easier to acclimate when you start fresh in college. Even if you weren't able to, it can serve as added motivation to do so in college. High school is the transition period that can either spring you forward into your independent life or stunt your future growth. It all depends on the mindset you have when you graduate.
 
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