College life has been different than I expected in many ways. For most of my classes, I expected more emphasis on seminar classes, while lecture classes were much more important. There were many fewer graded assignments than I expected in my classes.
For Scholars, I did not expect that we would cover logical fallacies, but it was very helpful to my understanding of science and psuedoscience. The service day in particular was very different than expected, as I didn't think we would do much work outside.
In high school, I expected college life would be much more stressful and have a very difficult workload. However, I didn't anticipate that we would spend far less time in class, making the workload much easier to manage.
My advice to future Scholars would be not to be too concerned with other's opinions of you, just to be yourself.