Transition From High School To College

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34% of high school students that graduate high school don't go to college. In my opinion this number is so high because the transition from them is really hard. Theres three major difference from high school to college in my opinion they are: you go from hearing bells to managing your own time, from having your classes payed by or to be forced to pay for your classes or you won’t be able to attend and lastly from being forced to go to school to being absent whenever you want.

To go from hearing bells to not hearing them and being on your own time. I think this is a really hard transition point from high school to college because from 1st to 12th grade you follow a system of pattern and now when you hit college you are on you own time,

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