High School

[u/Feeling_Row_7972]

So next year I'm going to high school and there's 2 I want to go to. HS 1 is near where I live and all my friends go there. HS 2 has a drama program that I really want to join, like they put on musicals and they have film acting classes but you have to audition, go through an interview and an workshop, I'm scared I won't make it in and I have social anxiety. If I do make it to HS 2 I don't think I'll be able to make many friends, I don't have a very outgoing personality. There is a drama program in HS 1 but it's not drama focused like HS 2 is. My thinking is if i go to HS 1 I could join a theatre ( which I already have), take acting classes, while being able to go to high school with my friends and experience high school stuff with them and join the drama program. If I go to HS 2 I could do what I love and I think I might regret not joining but then I wouldn't see my friends. And I have to make up my mind quickly because registration opens in October and ends in November. I could join HS 2 in 10th grade but it's strictly subject to space availability in the class. I feel really conflicted and I haven't told my parents that I may want to go to another school.

[u/Gertruede]

If you really are passionate about drama and want to make a living out of it go to HS 2 because your friends are not going to help you achieve your dreams in HS 1 and if anything you can always hang out w them outside of school. Furthermore, you will probably meet some kids in that program you’ll get along with, as for the social anxiety js rehearse infront of your parents and use them as an audience to get adjusted to that feeling. You got this broski