Changing high schools senior year?

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I’m going to spend a lot of time this year thinking about this but I recently have been pondering changing to a different high school.

I will be a junior this year. The school I go to is a nice public school. I like the teachers, the classes, it’s been really nice. I have some close friends from a former catholic k-8 school that I got closer with during high school, regardless being to different school.

However the public school i am in now is only so so as far as my socializing goes. I feel distant there, I’m not really as close to anyone there as I am to my friends that are going to a catholic high school nearby. I talk to people, but there’s no one there that I expect to have our friendship last after high school. But the friends I have at the school I want to transfer to I feel will last much much longer.

I really feel better when I am around them and I feel left behind going to this public school. The idea really hit me when one of my closest friends went to a rival high school to mine told me he is transferring to this catholic school because he hasnt been the happiest where he was,

hearing that I felt suddenly even further away because I would rather go there where my close friends are then go to the school thats right across the street.

my grades are great. less than .1 away from a 4.0 GPa. school comes real easy for me. I have most of my requirement classses out of the way after this yaer (although it may need to be adjusted if i do decide to transfer senior year). I’m taking some AP courses this yaer as well. I’d like to transfer this yaer but it would be too much of a hassle now and I think it would be better it I took my ACT here so I can be less concerned going into a new school.

but these are just lookse plans. do you guys think it’d be ok/a good idea to transfer senior year? as far as college goes, Im not going into some high standard college. I plan on doing a career in american sign language (not positive where in that exactly). i like the classes and teachers where I am tho and if I had to i could tough it senior year. I would like some advice. thanks!
 
and no, i havent discussed these plans to my parents yet because i’m not even sure i’ll do it. I just wanted to get opinions on the situation.
 
I had a friend who actually transferred out of our Catholic school (where she had social issues that went back to her parochial grade school) and into a public school, and she just bloomed. She was so much happier. She’s a school official at a Catholic school now, too, so it didn’t turn her off Catholic schools!

It will not harm you with your college applications to transfer from a public school to a private school, provided there were no discipline issues that lead to the switch. Talk to your parents about making the change ASAP, however. You have to make sure there is a slot open for you at the Catholic high school, since they will have already done admissions for the fall. If you act quickly, however, you may still make it, since you seem to have demonstrated the academic ability to do fine there.

If you already have close friends at the new school, I don’t think you’ll have a hard time. The question is whether your parents can swing it financially, considering that the new school may have already committed their financial aid for the next school year and your parents also have your college expenses to budget for.

Ah–PS…I see you mean to switch schools for senior year only. That would be easier to accomplish. I don’t think you’d have a hard time of it, if you already have friends there in your class. Money could be a real issue for your parents either way, though.
 
If your parents have the money to send you to a Catholic school, sure, why not? I think it would only look suspicious to colleges if you switched during the school year. Honestly, I hated my high school and often wonder if I would have grown more as a person if I had transferred.
 
Tell your parents how you feel right away. It may be possible to switch this year. If not, they can help you plan for next year. Good luck!
 
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Tell your parents how you feel right away. It may be possible to switch this year. If not, they can help you plan for next year. Good luck!
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Switching for your senior year won’t hurt you. But based on what you are saying, maybe you should switch now?
 
Talk to the school right away. Colleges require that half the credits be earned there to graduate from there; I don’t know about high schools.
 
thanks for the responses. It’s not that bad that i need to switch this year. I would actually rather finish this yaer where i am now so it’s just easier with my ACT and such because my scheduling is an A day B day schedule meaning I have 4 90 min classes one day and 4 different classes the next which alter. (one reason why I wouldnt want to switch because I love the scheduling!, much easier on the brain) the catholic one has 8 40 45 min classes which would be a huge change for me.

I am still open to more advice. I know it wouldn’t be a hard switch, but I am still unsure if I will do that, thus why I think staying where I am this year to think on it will be much better. I’m not exactly miserable where I am but would just feel better if I had even just one really good friend there. I started out my day really thinking it’d be a good idea, but when i started my shift at work I started going over why it’d be better to stay. I’m really unsure because I’d be happier there but it’d be easier for me if I stayed. I’m in a bind 🤷 but I have a year to figure it out. Thanks for all the advice so far 🙂 . God bless

and if I really wanted to go, financially it wouldnt be too difficult. im going to wait to talk about it wuith my parents later on in the school year when I have more of an idea of what I’ll be getting into
 
What do your friends at the Catholic high school say?

When we were looking into schools for our children, I found it very telling how positive the students were about the school. That is not 100% true in all private or Catholic schools. Your friends know both you and the school quite well. They may be able to give you insights into what life is like in their school that no one else can give you. After that conversation, you may change your mind about transferring or even change your mind about transferring ASAP.

By the way: If they don’t seem thrilled at the idea of having you join them, I’d take that as a big red flag. That would tell me that something is amiss either with the school or with my friends’ willingness to welcome me into their school social circles. You know them better than anyone else, too. You have intuition. When you’re asking them these questions, take some quiet time by yourself and listen to what your intuition is telling you about what they are trying to say to you. (The worst news is not news that all friends can just say outright, because of loyalties they do not want to offend against.)
 
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