Ah, College

Well, it's that time of year for me. As a junior in high school and one that is extremely concerned with my future (*cough college cough*), now is the time for the stress of it all to begin. I'm taking the SAT in May (FEAR!!!) and I'll be starting to fill out my applications and write my essays this summer so when senior year starts I'm ready to go. What I'm incredibly disappointed in is my high school. I have had zero help with my counselor and the administration. I didn't even know how much the SAT cost until I was PAYING for it! *I* am the one urging my friends to sign up for the SAT now while they can and I know I'll be the one pushing applications in their faces all summer. Why do I have to do this? Because our high school isn't. It seems to me that the high schools one and only concern is to keep us in school from 7:30 until 1:50 where they shove us out the doors (staff actually stands around in the hallways and pesters and sometimes physically pushes students out the door a few minutes after school has ended). Sometimes they inform us on graduation requirements right before they're due so I guess they're kinda sorta helpful about getting us out of the high school permanently. But they are not helpful in the SLIGHTEST about college. We have a Career Center where students can come in the find out information on volunteer and job opportunities and scholarship options and even find out things about potential higher education possibilities. That is, if you want to dig around for it. And when I say dig, I mean *dig*. Maybe it's because the Career Center counselor is new (the last one just had a baby) or maybe she just fell into the job but she hasn't been able to answer a SINGLE question I've come in with and if I had a nickle for every time I've been in there, I'd be rich. Not only that, but the majority of the school probably doesn't even know that we HAVE a Career Center, let alone where it is or what it's there for. This is just another example of reasons why the school system has GOT to be reformed. Helping students is the whole point of a school, how about they try it sometime?