Going to get better grades to get into another school.

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Supposedly the school I want to go to is much better than the school I go to now. It's an art/science/math school that teaches college credit classes even though it's just High School. It has a comic class, computer programming, a class about Heroes and Villians, all that good stuff that my school doesn't have. It's for 11 and 12 grade which means I need to raise my grades this year and next year to get in. Unfortudently it's a boarding school, but it's in a cool hippie-ish old town/state park and you can actually get permission to go places. I also went on their Facebook and all the people that graduated from there said it was a good school. What do you guys think? What things should I expect from a boarding school?

I love the idea of jumping ahead even if I'm behind.

And I like adding skills of arcing across a topic, to add to my skills of diving deep and learning a subject thoroughly. Both are valuable. For example, malaria is caused by a one-celled parasite which lives part of its life cycle in the mosquito and part in a human being. Well, that's pretty good. Then I can fill in some of the details. Or, the dinosaurs were wiped out when a meteor hit the Earth and caused a nuclear winter type phenomenon. That's also pretty good.

Especially for math and science, I really like the idea of pre-studying. Pre-studying is cheating! It's just an entirely legal form of cheating.

Living in a boarding school, you might plan to develop some skills of low-key leadership which are often more straightforward skills anyway. And we as human beings, ourselves fully included, are so complex that nothing always works (I sometimes find it helpful to remind myself of this).

And as far as American schools, some private lessons on billiard's and/or table tennis and then practicing on your own kind of gives you some 'street cred.' Be a gracious player and gracious winner. Of course might be different your part of the world.

When I attended an American university way back in 1982, I was surprising how much bullying and physical intimidation there was. I recommend tight defensive boxing to a draw.
"Tight, defensive boxing to a draw. One week."
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Almost prefer a draw because not trying to embarrass someone you're likely to see again. If 'win,' be low-key, don't brag. Downplay if someone else brags on your behalf. Again, maybe some private lessons and then practicing on your own. In particular, please don't take a bunch of blows to the head because all that stuff about post-concussion syndrome and even lesser blows is largely true (and boxing headgear probably doesn't really protect). Boxing is something you're hoping not to have to use, gives a baseline of confidence, and hopefully in zen like fashion, the fact that you're prepared then makes it less likely. Only works against people largely your own size.

And of course, all this might be different depending on your part of the world. You can even be a leader and matter-of-factly stand up for someone else, primarily verbally, such as "He seems like an alright guy to me." Sometimes it is so amazingly easy to stand up for someone else.