Furthermore, college students cannot stay back, as they can in high school. In college you just take the classes required for your major until you pass them all. But, in all colleges, you are put you on academic probation if you start to get bad grades. This means that if you do not improve your grades by the next semester, you will be expelled. A problem like this occurs to students who attend some of the more advanced schools.
The final difference I noticed between high school and college was the way the students lived. Students in high school usually live at home with their parents. They come home from school and go out with their friends or catch up on some homework until it is time to go to bed. In college, if you choose to, you can live on campus with friends. This is where most parties take place on any day of the week, but it is also where students are expected to do their work. College is also a place where students can experience what is it like to live on their own and to take responsibility for their own actions.
Thinking of all the differences between high school and college I realize that they really have nothing much in common. Besides the fact that they are both forms of education, they have completely different environments; high school prepares you for the hard work ahead in college, and college prepares you for new challenges as an adult.