balzout
11-10-2007, 12:55 AM
Anyone else a senior in high school applying to colleges? If so, where are you guys applying and how do you find the process?
masherscf
11-10-2007, 02:06 AM
Anyone else a senior in high school applying to colleges? If so, where are you guys applying and how do you find the process?
Isn't it a little late? I thought the deadline for Fall 2008 admission passed months ago. You should be well on your way to scheduling interviews and perspective visitations.
rabidbadger
11-10-2007, 02:08 AM
Eh, I didn't bother til mid-senior year, and had no problem getting scholarships and grants and offers. Just gotta work your ass off from this point on, is all.
scienceking
11-12-2007, 06:53 AM
Isn't it a little late? I thought the deadline for Fall 2008 admission passed months ago. You should be well on your way to scheduling interviews and perspective visitations.
The deadlines are usually span Jan at the earliest to March even. You are still right about interviews and visitations, which they can actually do before you submit a complete app.(you have to send in your app in parts because of sealed letters of recommendation and the test scores) Theres also early decisions which have mostly ended by now, which are good to get if you know where you want to go to school, as they offer nice scholarships to desirable students.
As for schools, go for the school in the highest tier you can get into that gives you the most freedom. Trust me, you want as much freedom as you can get, and most employers and graduate admissions staff only know about your school's general reputation once you get a degree. I made the mistake of doing this and went to an intense private engineering college and have gone through lots of misery and will not get much out of it that people who went to tier 1 state schools like UIUC don't have, when they also had lots of freedom/fun.
Also, take your admissions tests several times if you got a half decent score on your first try, as better test takers will do quite a bit better on the tests after a try or two. You can learn the tests, and the tests matter as much if not more than anything else for scholarship consideration. Also, remember that the ACT is scored on a statistical distribution, so there is a not a big difference wrong answer wise between a 31 and 33(probably 1 or 2), but not between a 19 and 21(could be a dozen!), which is bad, because on some sections like English, missing one question can drop you from 36 to 32 depending on the test population, which could be the difference between a full ride and a standard scholarship!