I don't know about those things.
But i'd say. It goes way beyond just being able to take on the classes.
From what one of my old high school friends said (I didn't run into her till recently even though we went to the same college). Going straight from high school to college is tough. She was an honor student, she did take AP courses, and she was taking Calculus. She found them fun and challenging. And so when she got to college (CSUS) she found the bio courses, some of the math courses to be harder along with juggling everything.
Aside from the "college life" being superbly different and juggling with time.
One of the things she had to learn to adapt to was the pacing. In high school, we learned the whole book in one year. We had class 3x a week. 2 of those are 2 hour block periods, and 1 is a 45 min class. So there was more time to work in class, ask questions in class, and overall more time to really get used to the material before testing day.
VS college.
Where its about a 16 week semester and you learn just about the entire book. Class is roughly 1 hour 15 minutes long, 2 days a week. She did get help from professor and classmates and she did do well. However, the pacing is very different.
I get what she means. In high school we had an 8-3 schedule. it was very static. We can easily set everything up accordingly. There was a whole year to learn the entire book. Time wasn't an issue. And then when you get to college all of that is cut shorter and you just have to pick up the pace and adapt accordingly. One semester you might have all morning, one semester you might have all night courses. One semester you might have gaps. You just have to learn to adapt.
And she also told me about her cousin who goes to UCD and they use a quarter system. I don't know what that is too well, but apparently, instead of classes being a full semester, they are quarters of about 10 weeks each.
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I guess. If the kids wants to go for it. I won't hold them back. GO FOR IT. But they must know that college is very different from high school in many aspects. If you're lucky you get classes your first semester that helps transition you into college. But if you're like me, you didn't get the transition, you just had to adapt.