Friday, September 25, 2015
For The Late-Starting Senior
Here are some tips for high school seniors getting a late start on the college search:
- Think about what is most important to you and identify 3 or 4 personal criteria for selecting a college
- Make sure that your criteria include something about the academic environment you want, perhaps a large research university, or maybe a midsize, career-focused school, or a liberal arts college
- Of course, you should also have a good feel for where you want to study - either geographic regions that would be preferable or maybe specify a maximum distance from home
- Once you have your key criteria, use the filters and search function at collegeboard.org to generate a list of schools; that list will probably be too long, so focus on colleges where the GPA and test scores of entering students are within range of yours
- Review the websites of schools you have identified as potential fits and narrow the list based on how each college describes itself and its mission, and the features that they highlight
- Finally, try to grab a weekend or long weekend (or two) and visit some of the schools that looked like the best candidates; those visits will not only help to confirm whether these colleges may be a good fit, but what you learn there should help to narrow your list further
- Think about what is most important to you and identify 3 or 4 personal criteria for selecting a college
- Make sure that your criteria include something about the academic environment you want, perhaps a large research university, or maybe a midsize, career-focused school, or a liberal arts college
- Of course, you should also have a good feel for where you want to study - either geographic regions that would be preferable or maybe specify a maximum distance from home
- Once you have your key criteria, use the filters and search function at collegeboard.org to generate a list of schools; that list will probably be too long, so focus on colleges where the GPA and test scores of entering students are within range of yours
- Review the websites of schools you have identified as potential fits and narrow the list based on how each college describes itself and its mission, and the features that they highlight
- Finally, try to grab a weekend or long weekend (or two) and visit some of the schools that looked like the best candidates; those visits will not only help to confirm whether these colleges may be a good fit, but what you learn there should help to narrow your list further
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