Ready, set, college! What you need to know before you get there.

Did you know that 47% of today's college-bound high school students graduate with an A average; 88.1% graduate with at least a B average. Yet most teens earn such grades by studying fewer than five hours a week. Regardless of your grade level, you should really be studying at least 10 hours a week! But students sail through their high school courses by cramming for tests or studying the minimum hours for classes - just to get by. Students rely on the teachers to remind them about tests or papers. High schoolers view learning in the classroom as their 'study time' and any studying at home is just 'extra.' However, when students enter college, these approaches become their downfall. It's the major reason that 63% of students don't graduate in the traditional four years - and nearly 40% don't graduate at all or take longer than six years to graduate.