was called "Home Sweet College", where I had talked about being a scared ... college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... after college, and supporting the big, publicly advertised galas or
that a college thousands of miles away would send me mail of this ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College
season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to, I received eight interview notices ... gleaned some tips about college interviews, and I'm going to share some of
, last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... college, though, there aren't any seating charts. And at first, it can be ... /science as gigantic suburban schools? I understand that going to college is not
“oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... had I finished college anywhere else, I might have changed in the same ... ’t think a lot about MIT — or college at all — during most of high school
, and have success in college and beyond.
1. Senior Year of High School: It's About the Match
College is about much more than books and classes ... campus.
I didn’t understand this when I started to look at colleges and to
younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I ... do are all important.
Finding Meaning
As I said, in college, I
forward to college decisions season. To my surprise, touring the assorted ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... 's when I remembered one of the 50 Things:
3. In college more than ever
As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... , check out the annual questions thread on College Confidential
Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe
with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post
In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential:
You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the
a good college and proved all the haters wrong!
but mine was more like ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... the things that are wrong with your work.
Then college admissions season
sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... “participate” in Harvard College now.
What’s even more exciting is now I have ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a
serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that ... of your document.)
NEVER CUT AND PASTE BETWEEN COLLEGE ESSAYS. If we ... Financial Aid. If you don't apply, you can't afford it.
Don't take college