what school is right for you?

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by piscesbabi09

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 )

[LouisaMay]

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.

[Tom Earp]

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

Small, is knowing people of the school and Organizations!

Walk across a Campus and say High to Folks!

Know Members of different Organizations and learn about them.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

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

Small, is knowing people of the school and Organizations!

Walk across a Campus and say High to Folks!

Know Members of different Organizations and learn about them.

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."

[piscesbabi09]

thanks for everyone's reply...

[aggieAXO]

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!

[Senusret I]

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.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

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

Small, is knowing people of the school and Organizations!

Walk across a Campus and say High to Folks!

Know Members of different Organizations and learn about them.

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

[piscesbabi09]

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

[LouisaMay]

Originally Posted by piscesbabi09

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

You are expected to work independently. You won't be in class nearly as much as you were in high school, but far more will be expected to you. It is up to you to decided when work gets done.

Also, I've found that a "reading assignment" is a whole new ball game in college. Take them seriously.

[alum]

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.

[NUBlue&Blue]

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.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by alum

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.

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.)

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Jen

I am so fascinated with choosing college/university because it's so different here in Canada.

LOL, the boy is Canadian, and he thinks our college app system is hilarious. Is it true that you just fill out one form with your top choices?

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.

I think it's more regional than generational. I graduated from HS in the South, and I only applied to four, which was pretty standard for my HS. It wasn't until my freshman year, when I met kids from NYC, DC, Boston, and San Francisco that I knew that people who applied to 10+ colleges.

During the past rush recommendation season, I spoke to some of the hometown girls about their college search--the same thing was true in that most kids only applied to four or five schools. On the other hand, I do alumni interviewing for my alma mater, and all of the kid I've interviewed in this cycle applied to 15 or 16 schools.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by alum

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.

Yeah, in both my undergrad and law school application processes, quantity was stressed. I don't think I had a "safety" school, per se; my high school transcript/resume was really good, and I made my application decisions based on journalism/liberal arts programs (in case I didn't want to stick with journalism, which turned out to be a good decision). Looking back, one of the schools I shouldn't have even applied to, but I only applied to 6 and wasn't going to go overboard applying to schools where I had no intention of going.