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My experience with small schools versus big schools going into college was that I had a lot less opportunities when it came to upper level classes. I literally had to take an online class (and teach myself) in high school to take calculus whereas bigger schools would have multiple offerings of those upper level courses. I was the top student academically from my school, but when I hit college I felt just slightly above average academically. In order to be the top in bigger schools the requirements were higher. I still made it into the college I wanted, but I was the only one from my high school to go to that college ever.

At the same time I was the student that school came naturally to. I never really studied in high school because I retained the information well. I think we push college as the path forward too often when there are other options that lead to just as good of a life. After going through college and figuring out who I was, I learned that I like hands on work like electrical or civil engineering. I could have just as easily when to a trade school and learned hands on how to do those jobs instead of working on a bachelor's for 4+ years to have no experience doing the job.

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