High School. People really overestimate its importance. All the honors classes, this high GPA, the BS SAT scores, it\'s all pointless. If you want to go to a good college, enrole in community college courses your junior year of High School and take the classes there. It earns you TONS of transferable credits and the classes are no different in difficulty then they are in High School. By the time you join a great college (this will be at the end of your senior year in High School), because you took community college courses, all the credits will be transferable and you\'ll have sophmore standings when you go to a 4-year school.
Trust me on this one. Don\'t waste your time with High School crap and BS. Just take the community College courses and transfer to a 4-year school. You\'ll save so much time and you\'ll be able to concentrate on your major, whatever that may be.
Also, going straight to a 4-year college fresh out of High School without taking any college courses is dumb. I\'m sure a lot of people on this board did it, but for every one of the people who did and graduated with a satisfying major, there\'s like two who wish they hadn\'t gone straight in. Make sure you know what you want to do and save your damn money for that.