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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:
From “millions of scholarship dollars go unclaimed” to “it’s too much work,” misconceptions about college scholarships need debunking.
“A full ride.” These are magic words to anyone beating the bushes for scholarship money. But students who get an all-expenses-paid college experience are rare. Let’s move on to a more realistic view of scholarships.
Feeling like the best summer vacation ever is about to start? And it’s only March? You are getting “senioritis,” and it’s a condition you don’t want to catch. Even though you’ve been accepted to college, remember, those acceptances are still tentative. Keep working!