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Originally Posted by jadzea
Let me tell you something I learned once I was out of school and working. I also worked very hard at AP courses in high school, wanted to go to a big name college and excell in my classes. Once I started working, all those things did not matter. Nobody really cared what I did in high school once I was in college. Nobody really cared what my GPA was in college nor were they really concerned over what school I went to after my first job. All they cared about is that I got my degree and could do the job. I have worked now for over 25 years and I never talk about school stuff. It is not important.
I'm not saying you should stop striving for excellence but I am telling you to relax a little and have a life other than school. It makes things much nicer.
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Yeah, but don't colleges look at your extracurriculars and your community service? Seriously, I have been looking at my local library for volunteer work so that I could get some hours done, but then they haven't phoned me back yet, and I thought, well they're obviously not considering me, and then I started working hard at community service at school, but then it's like do colleges care where you worked at or how many places you've been working at? What if I don't put anything for those community service? Would that affect me much?
don't employers usually look for students who come from prestigious colleges?