UT received my High School transcript and my file is under review finally! There were a few interesting tidbits of information I forgot. My HS GPA was 3.65 and I scored 1110 on the SAT that I took in December of 1990. Now I just wait for confirmation. I really hope it doesn't take too long or I might wear a hole in the carpet in front of Todd's cube pacing back and forth. Worrying about college admissions after all this time is a very odd sensation. When I went to WT for the first time, I don't think I had any real concerns. I guess it just means quite a bit more to me now than it did back then. All I was concerned with then was getting away from home and spreading my wings.
I wonder at times if we don't have our paradigms for academics wrong in the US. If the norm was not an immediate progression from High School to college and instead we were expected to first work at some unskilled manual labor job for 3 or 4 years after we graduated, would the college retention rate be better? I know I would have most likely cleared the partying and freedom bugs from my system. And yes the situation is different for each person but I just wonder if the general expectation that kids should progress straight from high school to college is a helpful one. Throw in the problems of introducing alcohol for the first time and the problems are just magnified. I know I will keep all of this in mind with my own kids when they are nearing the college experience.
But yeah, hurry up UT! I'm ready to have the admissions junk behind me and step into class!
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