In deciding where to apply to college, you are making decisions that can have many implications for your life, over the next four years and beyond.Some key factors to consider when you begin to draw up your list of colleges include: the reputation, location, size, and cost of a given college.You must also take into account what kind of college it is (e.g. research university, liberal arts college, etc.), what courses of study it offers, extracurricular opportunities, and scholarship opportunities.Finally, you will need to look into the academic standards of the college so that you can make a realistic assessment of your chances of getting in.The following sections will look at these factors in more detail, and the worksheet for this lesson will help you to take concrete steps in the process of deciding where to apply.
In choosing a college, you are making decisions that can have many implications for your life, over the next four years and beyond.
There are certain realities that you must face as an applicant. One is that there are far more qualified applicants to many colleges than there [...]
You might have certain preferences when it comes to the location and setting of the college you’ll attend. Are you most drawn to cities, suburban [...]
For most students, no college selection process is complete without taking finances into account (more will be said about this topic in Lesson 8). You [...]
In deciding where to apply to college, you are making decisions that can have many implications for your life, over the next four years and [...]
As a college applicant, you will inevitably be faced with a decision about what kind of college you will want to attend. There are two [...]
You might be tempted to begin your process of selecting colleges by looking at college rankings, such as the US News and World Report rankings. [...]
For information on admissions standards, as well as other useful data about specific colleges, you can make use of the National Center for Education Statistics’ [...]
Another consideration which can influence your selection of colleges is your intended course of study. You might have very little idea what you would like [...]
