What Do Colleges Like?
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Get involved in your community! Join clubs and volunteer. Also, keep a decent GPA of course and score well on the SAT/ACTs. However, community and organizational involvement ARE important. Your essay is also important. Colleges DO read them!!! Rather than trying to be an "individual" in your essay, try to be a good writer. Write truthfully, and address weaknesses on your application in a personal statement. Also, contact the colleges you are considering and ASK what their entrance requirements are and if they have minimum scholarship requirements, etc.
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well almost every college has these things in some shape or form. Best suggestion talk to your High school counselor and she will help guide you to a school with the best options for what you want to do. Most of your big state universities are excellent in science, tech and architecture however. yahoo also has a college section so you can research schools there.
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Hey, I'm glad you like Harvard, i do to. I find that each college/Uni has its own value to needs of particular students.
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College is not just set of courses. You can learn and read course paper at home. College teaches you team work, interacting with people and sometimes also teaches how to do things you absolutely don't like. You are learning a life's lesson at college. You can always choose course that go towards your career later.
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Of course you should apply. You'll never know if you will like it unless you try it first. I know you are busy, but college is supposed to be a chance to try everything you want to see if something is a good fit for you. Good luck in your pursuits.
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interests,likes,desires,perks etc
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You can try any of these websites.  They might be what you're looking for.  The College Board one is a very detailed search where you can enter information about what exactly you want in a college.  I hope this helps!
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ask a historian who works at a nerdy college
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College was...\n\nA much easier schedule than high school, with much harder work.\n\nA more in-depth social experience (while in the dorms, anyway).\n\nCollege is really what you make of it. Your professors most likely really love the subjects they teach, and if you show them an interest they will usually respond to you. I ended my undergrad career with a few professors I could consider friends. You should apply for at least a few clubs or groups, like the campus newspaper. This is more important than you think.\n\nI have little to say about Fraternies/Sororities, as I was not in one.\n\nHope that helps. It seems pretty big at first, but it's a life you fit yourself into pretty easily.
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A lot of colleges are recognized. I think it depends on what college you study from.  Good luck.
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Wow, she's depressing.  I've actually loved a lot of the college classes I took.  I've got one now that I hate, but you can't win 'em all, right?  Actually, college classes are usually a lot MORE interesting than what I got in high school.  I can't speak about Chemistry much (I've managed to avoid it most of my life), but I've found that most subjects in college just go deeper into areas I didn't know existed, and I got to find out lots of neat things.  I suspect you'll find you like some of what you find in college, and not so much in others.  But if you like Chemistry, give it a try.  A lot of how much you like a subject in college depends a lot on how good the people teaching it are.  You can always change your major if you don't like the professors or something.  As long as you've decided for sure by the beginning of your 3rd year, you are probably not going to lose much time.
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There's huge variability in how much money college ends up costing you. There are plenty of affordable options. In the end, students decide how much they pay by choosing the colleges they apply to and attend.
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Of course! To help you pick one however, determine your preferences: student population (Big, medium, small?), setting (rural or urban), distance from home (driveable or flyable?), tuition (what can you afford?), strength of academic programs of interest, student life (parties or mellow?).  All these things can be checked out through a Barron's College guide-type book.  Your guidance counselor is also a good resource.  Once you've narrowed down your choices, try to visit the campuses too -- remember you'll be spending the next few years of your life there! Good luck!
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It depends on what you call 'good'. Harder? At places like Oxford and Cambridge, yes. Better? It depends. What you get is what you put into it.
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It isn't just about the test score.  Colleges look at you as a  whole person.  what clubs, hobbies, how challenging your high school program was, etc.  They also look for diversity in their incoming class, not just racial, but gender, and geographical.
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Good in what?  Fashion merchandising or pre-med?  A college is only as "good" as the programs it offers that appeal to you.  Do your research, and don't attend a college just because everyone's heard of it.  Some of the best schools in (and out) of the country are ones that no one has heard of except for alumni, and they are the ones that love that particular school.
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Ask what YOU want to know. Try to ask stuff that you cannot find on the college's site or brochures. Asking some of the college students themselves is a lot of times more rewarding than whoever is leading the tour or session.\n\nA good question is:\nIf there was one thing you would change about this college, what would it be and why?