Girls Room

[Eli]

Yeah. The last year of junior high you apply for high school, and then halfway through your first year there you have to apply for the second year which in my case (and most other cases) also locks my choices for the third year...

[MarMar]

We had to apply for all three years when I was in High School.

Right now I have to decide which three courses I want to take next fall if I want to finish my degree in English - these can be from both the faculty of Humanities and the faculty of Social studies as I have "right to study" in both.

I'm not sure what I want to do:

- Get this year of sociology accepted as my second year (minor) in my English Bachelor's degree

- Do another minor as that year

- Continue with social studies

- study something else.

By now, I have enough credit on top of my grades from high school to be accepted into "everything", so I might apply for journalism as that's the hardest course to be accepted in at the moment.

[allibaz91]

Wow, I've never heard that one before .......

I never fully appreciated how good the Scottish eduaction system is until now!

[~Rosey~]

In Oz, we just apply for the school when were in Primary school. Then we go right up untill Year 10, or Year 12. We can choose.

I think i'll go to Year 12 because that means I can do my HSC and go to Uni

[Eli]

I guess it could be better that we don't have to apply for all three years anymore, Merc, but on the other hand it was a lot easier if you had made a bad choice and wanted to change courses with the old system. It's literally impossible now unless you want to take the year over again.

You lock a lot the when you apply the first time now too, by choosing ST I'm down to three choices (five with a counsellor willing to help you change) but after this round of applying I will have locked the next two years to one PF. And then in a few weeks we will get to know the FPFs and VPFs, and choose them. We have to choose both VPFs and FPFs for both Vg2 and Vg3 now, and as the FPFs are already set when you apply for ST in junior high I will have the next two years all set and locked for any changes within a few weeks.

I'm scared.

[Skykat]

the Englist system is pretty simple. Pick a primary school, enroll. Pick a secondary school, get offered a place. Decide if you want to stay on for A-Levels, hope that you get the grades you need to stay on.

You don't really have to apply for anything until Uni.

[Eli]

As long as your grades aren't really suck-ish you will get what you apply for here, so it's not that part that is so scary, it's having to make a choice for the next two years, which will probably affect my choice of carreer

[allibaz91]

^ Lol Scotland is even simpler! You go to the primary school nearest your house (in your catchment area, I think they call it) unless you have a specific reason to go to another one. Same with secondary school - catchment area, and the school provides transport if you live outwith a certain distance. Then apply for Uni or college. Easy or what?!

[Pierced Musie]

... Makes me glad I ditched school .

[Eli]

^ Lol Scotland is even simpler! You go to the primary school nearest your house (in your catchment area, I think they call it) unless you have a specific reason to go to another one. Same with secondary school - catchment area, and the school provides transport if you live outwith a certain distance. Then apply for Uni or college. Easy or what?!

Almost the same here. You go to the elementary school (1st to 7th grade) nearest you unless you have a specific reason not to, same goes for junior high (8th to 10th grade) and then you apply for highschool.

But you get in to high school no matter how bad your grades are, everyone gets in to one high school or another, but your choices are more limited with bad grades. Also not all schools offer the same courses, so you might have to go to a school far away from you if the local school doesn't offer what you want. Most people go to the nearest school though.