Having a good education plays an important role in our lives. It not only helps us find a good job, but also helps us develop our knowledge and prepare for a successful future. However, not everyone is lucky enough to receive a college education. Well-educated people face another problem, which is preparing their academic literacy for college. When moving to college, everyone's academic literacy is different. However, in today's society, people's academic literacy does not meet college expectations. Rebecca D. Cox states in her article, “The College Fear Factor,” that students struggle in college based on their experience going from kindergarten to 12th grade. When they move to college, students don't understand what their college professors ask of them. Students are not trained in how to analyze and interpret text in college. In the article “The Politics of Remediation,” Mike Rose recounts his experience as a counselor and explains how five students are struggling at the University of California, Los Angeles. Each of the five students has their own problem in college and connects the problem they have now to their high school experience. Both articles are about the consequences of high school on college students, and both agree that students are not to blame for their academic literacy. Students are unable to understand the academic literacy skills required in the university system. High school, for some students, did not prepare them for this and the students are not aware of it. Academic literacy develops differently across all types of schools, and my high school lacked the expertise to help students prepare for academic literacy in college. Furthermore, high schools do not prepare students for... half of paper ...place to be if academic literacy in high school did not prepare them for college. Going straight from high school to college is a challenge. No one knows what to expect from college. In college everything is different. The knowledge gained in high school will be distorted to make the topic understood as fully as possible. High school may not have taught you anything, but that will change once you get to college. It may be difficult at first, and it may still be difficult at the end, but there are resources like tutoring and office hours that will help you succeed in college. Take advantage of these resources like the 5 students in Rose's article. Even if errors occur, you can fix them the next time you try again, because everyone learns from their mistakes. No one is a failure as long as they try their best to succeed.