MARYSVILLE – Entering your freshman year in high school, other than maybe kindergarten, is often the most-nerve wracking of any in K-12.

But some freshman signing up this week to go to Marysville Getchell High School for the first time didn’t seem uneasy at all.

Jack Rimstad, 15, said he chose MG over Marysville-Pilchuck because of the different academies. “You can focus on what you want to do,” he said.

Rimstad wants to be a doctor so he will attend the Bio-Med academy. Rimstad admitted he might be a little apprehensive about going to MG because it’s so much bigger than 10th Street School, where he attended junior high. “It will be harder to have a relationship with the teachers,” he said.

He added he also is excited about playing soccer for the school. The left-footed forward loves the field at MG.

Brionna Palmer, 14, also plans to play sports for MG. She enjoys basketball and softball.

But she chose MG because she already knows some students and teachers there. She has friends who also will be in the communications academy.

Coming from Marysville Middle School, she is most excited about “meeting new people and making new friends.”

Like Rimstad, Bradley Taylor, 14, also is coming from 10th Street School. He chose MG because all of his friends were going there.

He also is going to Bio-Med. He plans to play clarinet in the band, and in the jazz band play piano and saxophone.

In other events this week:

•Cedarcrest Middle School will have orientation for seventh- and eighth-graders from 3-7 p.m. Wednesday.

•Totem Middle School will have orientation for 6th-graders from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday.

•MG will have new students register from 4:15-5 p.m. Wednesday, with an open house following from 5-6:30.

• Marysville Pilchuck High School will have mandatory freshman orientation from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday. They will tour the campus, meet their mentors and teachers, and participate in a free barbecue.

School starts Wednesday, Sept. 7.