To much stress?

After reading CNN’s “CU press says state funding could be cut 50 percent more” it made me realize how much the stress of going to a high rated college is. As I am only 14 you would think I would not know much about what it is like to choose a college. I am 14 and I am already worrying about how one grade can affect my whole life, and about what colleges I would like to go to.  I know that a lot of jobs look at what schools you went to and if you got a “high end education”. Especially in these rough economic times you don’t want to look “not up to standards” on your resume. It also makes me think why is it that our high school grades affect what college we go to, and our college depends on what jobs we get? We are so young and still trying to figure things out at these ages. By things, I mean just about everything. Yet they set the tone for the rest of our lives. Is that a lot of pressure or what? We have only been able to make small mistakes, now we are faced with failing a test could ruin your GPA, which could ruin your college chances. Should all of our future really depend on our adolescence? Silly little mistakes we make while we are young can affect us forever, which adds a lot of stress to every thing we do. It can also be a good thing though too. To make us grow up faster and jump into reality. The stress may be a little too much though.