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Originally Posted by alum (Post 1396662)

A major that combines your two interests would be medical illustratration. The artists that specialize in this field are the ones that draw the anatomical depictions in JAMA, medical textbooks, etc. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Medical College of GA are two schools that offer that program.

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Back in the days of the dinosaur, I chose Carnegie Mellon for its research reputation, its small size (for a university), its Nobel Prize winners in the field that I wanted to major. My H chose West Point because he wanted to serve his country, he wanted to compete in his sport at a D1 level, he was the 2nd of 5 stairstep kids and didn't want to unduly burden his parents. More recently, our D chose a tiny southern LAC because it has a fantastic alumni network, she really wanted professors teaching her classes instead of large lecture halls and foreign TA's (a major complaint of research U undergrads), it is top in her intended field of study.

And just as a point to the importance of individual "fit" , one of my siblings went to UVM and loved it. A couple of my extended family relatives went to UMass and loved it. More importantly, they were able to find a great job or great PhD program as follow-up. However, my sibs and I would have had a horrible time at ZooMass. For us, it was just too big and too wild.

thanks for your help..i never heard of a medical illustrator before now..im going to look into that...

everyone thanks for all of the help..im mos def trying to get away from my mama..she doesnt want me to leave tennessee..but too bad..im tryna get as far as possible..but close enough to be able to come home some weekends..so im thinking about schools in ga and al.....what i'm looking for in a school is for it to not be too big and not too small..southern of course..greeklife..and other things...another question: what were some of the clubs/groups everyone enjoyed while they were/are in?

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Originally Posted by piscesbabi09 (Post 1396734)

what were some of the clubs/groups everyone enjoyed while they were/are in?

- Alpha Lambda Delta/ Phi Eta Sigma - First year honorary societies
- Order of Omega- Greeklife honorary society
- Mortarboard- senior honor society
- Tan & Cardinal Newspaper (staff writer, photographer, then asst. photo editor, now photo editor)
- Starving Artists (student arts group)
- United Greek Governing Board (greek life judicial)
- Tau Delta (can't you tell ;) )

I knew I wanted to be close to home but not TOO close to home. I ended up at a small school nearly 2 hours away, 1100 students. It was a perfect fit. Small, liberal arts, interesting history. They offered me a good scholarship that sealed the deal in my mind.

In college, I loved the choir and Camerata (a more selective choir), and I was really in the campus newspaper and the literary journal. I served as a peer mentor, and it was one of the best experiences of my life.

Take a look at www.scholarshipcoach.com.

Hey, Big is not better! I did not want to be a Number.:o

Small, is knowing people of the school and Organizations!:)

Walk across a Campus and say High to Folks!:D

Know Members of different Organizations and learn about them.:)

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp (Post 1397209)

That all depends - KSigRC and I went to a pretty large school (Boston U), and we were able to get to know quite a few people, both Greek and non-Greek.

Maybe that's because of our winning personalities, or something like that, but going to a big school doesn't mean you'll be just "a number."

thanks for everyone's reply...

I wanted to go to a big school-the bigger the better. My classes had about 150 to 300 students usually, some were smaller at about 100. I loved it. I am not the type that needs the one on one teaching(I would rather remain faceless to my professors :)). I ended up having the one on one teaching in grad school and it was a bit of an adjustment. Of course I knew when I was a child where I was going to college and what I was going to study. Good luck!

I got into:

Georgetown
George Washington
Hampshire College
Boston U
Tufts
Florida State
DePauw
Morehouse
Fisk

I have nothing else to contribute, I just felt like bragging.

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta (Post 1397349)

you rock,senusret!!

lol thanks..... little known fact: I was rejected or waitlisted from every school I applied to in the state of NY!

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp (Post 1397209)

Yeah, I go to a school with almost 50,000 people and I know plenty of greeks and non-greeks.

what were some of the differences everyone noticed about high school and college?

College applications are a whole different ballgame.

Tabulating Senusret's list and adding at least 1 school from NY, he applied to 10 or more colleges/universities. This is definitely a generational phenomenon. When I applied to colleges in the early 80s, the college counselors were recommending 5 applications. 2 reaches, 2 matches and 1 safety. A couple of decades + later, my D was applying to schools and HER CC said the average hs student applied to 8 for a breakdown of 3 reaches, 3 matches, and 2 safeties.

At $50 a pop for the application fee, my daughter applied at the school she wanted to go to, a backup school and a reach. I didn't feel like spending $$$ to apply at a bunch of schools just to see if she could get in to them.

Applying to 8-10 schools costs about the same amount of money as books for one semester.

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Originally Posted by alum (Post 1397384)

I went to a high school in which the majority of us were low-income. I was living in Section 8 housing at the time I was applying to colleges.

Knowing that our school's most talented were mainly low-income, our college counselor instituted a program called the 10x10 Challenge. If you had a 3.0 and a 1000 on your SAT scores, she would ask that you fill out the common application and she would send the application to ten schools of her choosing that either did not require an application fee or had fee waivers. Many of us basically applied to schools we had never heard of, but our counselor knew that they would be matches or safeties for us.

She made me do the 10x10 TWICE, and I chose my own schools (also about ten).

Any HBCUs I was admitted to were from the 10x10, Morehouse, Fisk, and some other place I have since forgotten. Also that boy's school in Minnesota (St. John's?). Denison, Albright, Washington College.... I got into every 10x10 school I applied to, and it was nice to have options.

(And most of the schools offered at least 40k in merit aid BEFORE financial aid.)