Stay up all night 😭…. Nah, that’s just sometimes. I try to get my work done, and study, in any free time I have. So during homeroom, lunch, dinner, free class time. If I have a free day, I look at the schedule and the assignments the teacher posted for the next few days. And I do it. But still, this didn’t always work. And this doesn’t seem like much of a balance. 

Devote an hour a day outside of school to studies on the days I don't have any extracurricular activities.

You do your work instead of being on reddit all day.

No social life lol

Idfk I dropped out

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if they’re genuine interests then honestly if you feel like you can make it work do them try them out! if it’s overwhelming maybe drop it if it’s causing stress

idk man i’ve been looking into ECs and it’s very overwhelming idk what to do either, i’m in a bunch of stuff i barely have time for my classes and apparently it’s not even enough😭 looking at students that applied to ivy league colleges i look like i have no chance to compete

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Chill out. I wanted to do all that stuff too, and now my schedule is effed. Remember that to be a straight a student you need ample time to do homework and study and that burnout is a very, very, very real thing. These activities are best spread out throughout different years of high school, or at least throughout different semesters of the same year if possible.

Just do it

Go to r/collegeresults, sort by top of all time, read the disappointed by Berkeley EECS guy. This will give you the depression or motivation to tryhard school

Don't procrastinate and sleep well.

Hey!! I’m about to be a senior and I can kind of explain how I do it. Basically I like to do activities that have a pre existing schedule during the school year and “free” activities during the summer. This helps me a ton because I program when I’m going to be busy during the school year and I study in my free time. The key is planning ahead and if you know you’ll do a lot of activities pick “easier” APs. That’s what I did, I’ll let you know if my strategy works when I (hopefully) get into a good college. If you need any other help pm me!

im an incoming college freshman who just graduated a few weeks ago with a 4.43 weighted gpa and ranked 6/690, all while maintaining multiple leadership positions w different clubs and over 100 service hours, with even having a job. let me tell you how i didn’t go insane and survived.

first, i don’t consider myself to be naturally smart. more of those gifted burnout students lol. but here’s my advice. managing your time is SO important. and you’ll especially notice this in your junior year. procrastination is so tempting and ive definitely done it more times than i can count, but it didn’t help me at all and made me even more stressed last minute. PLEASE get an agenda and plan what assignments are due when !! it truly helps and makes you stay organized !

i had to sacrifice some family time and hangouts with friends to study for exams. it was unfortunate but it has to happen sometimes :( i say this even more of a sign to get assignments or studying done quicker so you can go to these hangouts. as for sleep, i cant really help you with that. my schedule got so messed up junior year, i found myself sleeping at 1:00 am a lot. scrolling on tiktok resulting in me to sleep later def did not help.

the biggest advice i can give you though is to breathe, relax, and truly do what’s best for you mentally. i can guarantee that mental breakdowns will happen as i had so many junior year the night before ap chem exams, but due to motivation and confidence and studying i was able to pass them. but if you know yourself, and know you can’t mentally do it, do what makes you happy and don’t do the stuff you truly feel like you can’t do. believe in yourself, yes, but as the years go on you need to possess several amounts of ambition.

but it’s the summer now and i’ll just say, please use it to relax. sophomore year was my best year of high school. i made so many good memories and life wasn’t too hard. it’ll definitely introduce you to balancing all of these things. i wish you the best of luck, and enjoy high school ! time flies by quick, please don’t spend a lot of it buried in worries and stress <3

Honestly its not all about quantity. There are many many successful applicants who pursue one or two things, but excel at them. You don't need any leadership position that you don't actually want. Take the classes you want, they don't all have to be APs! Do service hours on the weekends so you don't have to overload the weekdays.

As for the other things, I cant really help you. I definitely don't get close to 8 hours of sleep, I don't spend enough time with family (thankfully COVID changed that,) and I only talk to one other person.

You don't need to do all these crazy things to get into a T20, you just have to love what you do - and try to be the best at it.

I wrote down what was most important to me, time commitments for various ECs, and prioritized that way.

Rising senior here. I don't have a 4.0 but I think I juggled a shit ton during high school considering some personal circumstances.

• Don't sacrifice your sleep for school. You will stop retaining what you're learning. Better to take a 0 on a 10 point assignment than take 15 points off of a unit test because you weren't alert in class. Keep drinking lots of water during the school day, and always eat breakfast if it doesn't make you nauseous.

• Identify which teachers you can SPARINGLY ask for extensions from, the ones that emphasize mental health, etc. Also identify which classes you can take hits in when necessary and which weekly assignments are actually important.

• Invest your time in things you actually care about. That way, you leave your practices/events feeling energized enough to work on school work and not drained. I tried out yearbook for a year, not for me at all, it made it so hard for me to want to do ANYTHING when I got home.

• Space out your ECs. Marching band is a primarily fall EC, so I do that in the fall, mock trial and quiz team in the winter, and then I can focus on the club that I run and volunteer service in the spring. Don't pile it all into one quarter of the school year. Year round things (honor society, yearbook) can't be helped, but it also keeps you from getting too bored during one season.

• Develop strong relationships with your peers and teachers. In no way am I saying to suck up to teachers, but friendly rapport can help if you end up behind in a class. If you need help on work (and don't cheat!) peers and teachers that like you will put more effort into helping you.

This is very generic high school advice but it work if you truly dedicate yourself to it.

When I was in college, I chose extracurricular activities that supported my studying. Usually I would make friends in clubs, and we'd study together. It was actually tons of fun! So, let's say, for example, you are studying Astronomy/Physics -- join the Astronomy Club! I joined Campus Girl Scouts, and we were a pretty close group of friends. We'd study together, go to movies, just hang out, and then the club would do volunteer activities together.

My advice is always go to class and get your work done. Then, have fun. I was in clubs, and had fun with friends with very little issue with classes.

How many credits are you taking? My social/free time is important for my mental health so I only ever take 12 credits (3 courses) at a time. I find that this leaves me with a healthy amount of free time to use elsewhere.

I was at a loss because I worked full time 30-35 hours a week on top of 12 course hours per week.

I missed out on a lot of stuff my departments did through my degree program. But I got my own stuff done. It just would've been nice to be a part of group dinners, movie nights, book sales and exchanges, poetry readings, guest lectures etc

Definitely try what you can despite the restrictions. There are a lot of hidden benefits even if they're hidden

focus more on understanding for some time you may skip extra curriculars activity.

whenever you think its getting out of my mind please watch some series the genre you the most

Focus more on understanding the concepts and try to compile them in self written notes

Take some time to get to know which are the areas which are compromised in trying to balance, cgpa should always be the top priority if you want to sit for placements or go for higher education. But a couple of weeks are enough to get through exams, so the rest of the semester you can try to do whatever you like, if you are attending a class, make sure to get whatever knowledge you can get from it so that the subject wont be alien to you when you sit down to study it before exams. Priorities change with time, so you have to be the judge of where to give how much time to which aspect

 u can make a lil schedule that shows how u can manage ur time (include study hours, dance practice, n even time for faith like praying n stuff) to show her than u will be doing just fine :P maybe suggest trying it out for a semester or a few months. if it gets too much, u can always step back. this way, she might be more open to the idea.

 reassure her that dance won't affect ur faith, n maybe talk to ur dad, another family member, or even a trusted teacher who can vouch for u and help convince her.  

 for the transportation thingy, offer solutions like carpooling with teammates or even using public transport if it's safe. show her u've thought about this and have a plan.

 good luck 🤞🏻🩷

you have the rest of your life to work. with school and homework and weightlifting and sports you have a 60-hour day already. full-time is 40 hours a week. you doing 60. you cant pack a job on top of that. you got to have some time with classmates to build your social skills and make friends.