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Getting an education is your top priority in college. So how can you sort out what kind of academic experience you want to have?
Whether or not you know what you want to study, you will do better in college if you find the “best college fit.” Here are some things to think about.
Compatibility with your college roommate is important. When I started college, I was matched up with someone who lived close to my hometown, but he also kept me up all night, every night, by talking to his girlfriend on the phone in our (very small, very cramped) dorm room. He also chewed tobacco, and his car never worked and so he was constantly asking to borrow mine. Needless to say, this was not an ideal match for me.
Here’s how to improve your odds of being compatible with your college roommate.
Let’s say you want to major in biochemistry, you want a small college not too far from home, and you want to play volleyball. Now what?
If you search for colleges using your priorities, you are bound to find a number of appealing candidates. Naturally, your list will change as you learn more about colleges—and yourself.
Going off to college is exhilarating, but opening up college bills can be sobering. These “last-minute” steps can help you bring college costs down to earth.
Many students who apply to college via Early Decision or Early Action find that they’ve been deferred. This means they’ve neither been accepted nor rejected – a sort of college purgatory.
Unlike a rejection, a deferral offers hope! You have not been rejected! The college is asking you to wait. However, you have work to do if you want to improve your chances of turning the ‘maybe’ into a ‘yes.’ Typically, a deferral means the college wants to compare you with the full applicant pool because your application did not shine enough for them to admit you early.
Here are some suggestions to improve your likelihood of college admissions: