I mean, is it really like in the movies with all those reputation stuff and the popular people? Is it true that if you haven't good grades at school you can't go to college? Thanks for answering!
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Fairly unitarian compared to Europe. Most kids fall into the average category. Of course it's a higher standard than underdeveloped countries, but far too few go to college. Ironically, we have some of the most-douchiestly selective colleges in the world that seem to only admit billionare-legacies. Edit: Oh, sorry, you meant the social aspect. No, it's nothing like on TV, at least not in most areas of the country. For one, no one looks like they're 25, and high school's really not a big deal, or at least as big of one as it is on TV, socially speaking.
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Yes for both. Although reputation is important in high school, movies tend to exaggerate it.
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Kind of with both of them.. But the first one not so much, you see people from football and baseball and basketball hanging around with eachother. Its more about which sport that you are in where you know the people. I go to school in california and theres 3500 kids at my school which is a lot i think, but your grades kind of matter. You dont have to have good grades to get into a community college. But if you want to go to a university you have to have decent grades, and if you want to get a scholarship to the university you have to have outstanding grades.. hope this helps
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For the first one, no, that is not true. I'm not sure if it ever was true, but surely within the last 30 years it has not existed. Most everyone is broken up eventually, and if you aren't in the bottom of the class you will not see it, as eventually the smarter students are siphoned off into a higher "track" with higher level courses than the other students, where groups do form, despite rules against them. It is absolutely true that without grades you cannot go to a GOOD college. However, here in the U.S.A. we have community colleges and other institutions for anyone wanting a college degree. You also have to be very competitive to go to a good school after high school. You have to have 100s of hours of community service and good activities (FBLA, National Honor Society, Band, Track, etc.) in order to gain acceptance to the top-tier schools. This is not to mention the work you will have to do for scholarships in order to pay for a top tier school, some who have tuition higher than the annual gross pay for many Americans.
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Well, as a high school student I can safely say that the movies that you see are greatly exaggerated. Yes, we have the popular stuff and reputation is always important but they don't play as big of a role in school as portrayed on the big screen. So, maybe it's the school I go but my school's one of the biggest schools in the nation.There are some popular kids, some nerdy kids, and yes we have our cliques but it's not as severe that we need to stick to our own groups. No jock is going to be beat up your nerd (at my school, sometimes the jock IS THE nerd -- I know, take that Hollywood!) and our prom king is currently attending an Ivy League (not because he was given a football scholarship, he actually earned it academically). In most cases, people are friends regardless of cliques. We also don't shower at school even though we do have showers. And, quite honestly, marching band people aren't the people getting beaten up behind the school everyday. Yes, we have our sluts who sleep around but they're not hanging around every jock and practically humping him at school. That occurs at our dances. Yes, the dances are as bad as they make it. No, they're not all held in the gym. Prom is normally when girls wear indecently short dresses and promptly have basically public sex with clothes on with their dates. Nevertheless, the seating arrangements that you see in movies can be real in most schools, even I know that. I still walk around and join different tables if I need to. Now, onto the college aspect. In the US, we have the community college route so anyone if he/she so chooses can go to college. You don't need good grades at school just so you can go to college; it's more about the drive and ambition to go. If you go on the metro, there's ads everywhere telling you that there's scholars for people to go to college. For the good universities and colleges, yes you need good grades. But it's so much more than that: it's about your demonstrated leadership, your extracurricular and your community service. Basically, not everything comes down to grades. That's kind of what I'm hoping for as far as colleges go (my GPA sucks).
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