College Search

     If you're a High School student like myself then there's a chance that you are either beginning or in the middle of your college search. As a junior I need to start narrowing down which colleges I am actually interested in. As an academic student I have been getting emails, postcards, letters, etc. from so many different colleges I've lost count. The first thing I do every time I get something from a college is check to see if the have the majors I am considering. If they don’t then I try to eliminate them from my options. My next step is to look and see where the college is located. If the college is not in a place that I would want to be then it would get eliminated also. I then look at the price of the college and try to get rid of any college that is more expensive than what I’m comfortable with. Even though private college may seem better they are way more expensive. Most private schools are upwards of $40,000 a year. Often times state colleges or other four-year colleges have just as good of an education as the private schools at a lower price. Many of my college options are state colleges within my home state and the Carolinas. I still have no clue where I want to go, but I’m definitely ready to start figuring it out.

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