Unacceptable: Many Students Really Ready For College

Students around the country are not being prepared for college. They enter college not fully aware they weren’t prepared for the intensity of college level work. Many students have to take remedial classes due to their high school classes not having them ready for the next level. Another reason students aren’t prepared is they haven’t taken the required amount of classes needed for college, some high schools require less of the core classes than most colleges require. Schools also forgetting colleges want independent thinkers. The main focus in high schools is the admission process and the development of students’ thinking abilities are forgotten about. The schools doing well in preparing their students, encourage the students to take college
Though I do not attend Holy Names Academy, my credits match up with their standards, therefore I know I am a little better prepared like they are. “Before graduation, students should know how to think analytically, solve problems, form opinions and conduct research.”(Solomon) As a result of me taking Indian Hills classes with Mr. Slechta I have learned how to do those things. My school knows what the students need to learn and go to college, hence those basic are incorporated into various lessons in the curriculum. In the article Unacceptable: Many Teens Aren’t Emotionally Ready for College, the author explains the importance of students’ personal wellness for college. “Personal wellness, maintained through solid coping skills and knowledge of holistic health, needs to be as important as academic excellence for students who want to thrive in college once they clear the admissions hurdle.” With this in mind, I am able to say I am not only academically prepared for college, I am also emotionally prepared for college. Through my experiences at the high school they have prepared me for college. The counselors advise me to take the right amount of various courses to meet high school graduation requirements as well as college entry requirements. Teachers discuss the importance of grades to me and other students, explaining the effects of poor grades. Not only have I experienced and read things that tell me I’m prepared, I have also observed others who have been prepared like I have. My sister, her friends, and my friends who were freshmen in college this year have all come back from college alive and well. The alumni come back and they are just fine, the only ones that decide not to go back to college have found it is not the right fit for them. Therefore, if the people before me who were prepared in the same way as I am being