During your junior year of high school, you'll make critical decisions that could have a major impact on the next five years of your life and beyond.
Junior year is definitely the hardest and most stressful year of your high school career. You're preparing for your future. We have heavy course loads, ACT's and SAT's, and extracurricular activities. Not to mention a social life that's almost impossible to have. But we make it work.
Trying to decide what you want to do with your life and what college you want to go to is hard. You are trying to find the college that is best equipped for what you are wanting to major in and who you are wanting to become. It's hard, though. It's a huge decision to make. You're trying to decide what you want to be. Something that will keep your interest for the rest of your life, but yet we are so unsure of what we want. It's stressful trying to make a major decision like that.
ACT's and SAT's. To get into college you have to have a good ACT score period. I mean if you don't get a high ACT score, you don't have as much chance at a scholarship, and you will end up paying lots of student debt for a long time after you're out of college. Make sure to start studying for these tests as soon as possible!!! They are very important to colleges. Yes, they are hard tests, but wouldn't you rather study really hard and get a great score and get into any college you want, and/or scholarship money, or would you rather go to a college you didn't really want to go to in the first place and pay student debt for a long time, because you didn't want to study? I mean come on, weigh out your options here.
We are all trying to get into as many extracurricular activities as we can this year so it will look good on our college applications. Colleges like to see that you were involved in extracurricular activities while you were in high school and still managed to keep your grades up. Try to get in as many clubs as you can!!
Having a social life while being a junior is hard. We manage to study our butts off, go to all of our after school practices and/or our club meetings, go to work, make it to ball games, and go to church activities. It's complicated, but we still make time to hang out with our friends and family or go do some type of relaxing or fun activity not involving school. We need a break every once in awhile. Then when it's time to go back to school, we work our tails off to make sure we are making our future the best we can make it.
