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Ok, I know I'm too young to worry, but does anyone know any good art or science colleges? This has been my latest brooding-over topic :D Where do you guys want to go to college? Parents? Admins ;D? So...yeah :)
I didn't really think about college till I was about 16 or so. Then I decided I wanted to go to a small liberal arts school. But some people like really big universities where there are lots more courses and activities. You can visit different schools and see where you feel most comfortable. My father requested that I go no farther than a one-day's drive from home. I had to write for college information, but today you can find all that infomation online.
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submitted by Koffee, age 14
(April 23, 2010 - 11:03 pm)
(April 23, 2010 - 11:03 pm)
:D Pennstate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I'm no big help really.)
(April 25, 2010 - 8:00 am)
I remember my dad telling me a while ago that I needed to decide what I wanted to study so he could start looking at colleges for me. *snort* He and mom want me to go to a liberal arts college, like they did.
(April 25, 2010 - 1:00 pm)
That's fun :)
(April 27, 2010 - 6:57 pm)
Culinary Arts Institute of California! It is my dream! I want to go to college to be a chef but have being a writer as my home job!
(April 28, 2010 - 6:42 pm)
Today, completely out of the blue, practically my entire language arts class told me I should go to Harvard, as if they expected me to base my decision entirely upon their words. It was odd. No one had even been talking about colleges.
I honestly don't know where I want to go. The decision will doubtless be difficult. My dad wants me to go to the college where he works (unfortunately, I can't tell you where that is). However, I live in Texas, and I love cold weather, so I want to go somewhere really far north. That would mean very far away from home, unfortunately...
(April 28, 2010 - 6:56 pm)
Nooo, no Ivies! Much better educations are available at smaller schools! Noooo Ivies!!!!! They won't prepare you for life after college, and you'll be in overcrowded lecture halls without any personal time with your professors, who will be mostly involved with research anyway, and on top of that in this day and age the "prestige" of graduating from an Ivy isn't worth a whole lot because people are starting to figure out that the Ivies aren't by any means the best colleges in the nation.
Ahem.
As for me, I've mostly narrowed my choices down to Evergreen, Beloit, Whitman, and Reed. Although I keep getting mail from St. Olaf's so I might look into that one too. At the moment I'm leaning heavily towards either Evergreen or Reed.
My biggest advice would be keep it in the back of your mind 'til you start junior year, otherwise your head will probably fall off or something. 'Cause mom's been pressuring me since eighth grade and it sort of put me off of college for a while. And then a few weeks ago I went, crap, I'm graduating in a year and a half, decisions need to be made!
And for when you do start to get serious about it there's a book called Colleges That Change Lives which, for me, was extremely helpful with the narrow-things-down part. Heh.
As for knowing what one is going to do: Heh. I have absolutely no clue, largely because my interests range from musical theater (tech and acting and professional critique) to writing to economics to computers to psychology...
/rambling
(April 28, 2010 - 11:04 pm)
Reed? As in Portland?
(May 3, 2010 - 10:20 am)
That's the one.
(May 3, 2010 - 10:11 pm)
Hey! I was going to make a thread on college! You beat me to it. Hmph. :P
(April 28, 2010 - 7:54 pm)
Liberty University! Mmmm hmmmm...that's where I will be going. Probably. Sorry I don't really know any good science or art colleges.
(April 28, 2010 - 8:14 pm)
I think it's great that all of you have some idea where you want to go :) Sorry that I beat you to this thread, MJ. Please accept my sincerest apologies ;D I'm thinking either NYU (New York University of Science and Art) or WSU (Washington State University, because they have a world-renowned genetics program, and I'd like to work on the Human Genome Project) but I'm still not for sure. :D
(April 28, 2010 - 9:29 pm)
Haha. I don't have a clue where I want to go, actually, except for the part about climate (Harvard was just something brought up completely out of the blue by people I don't even know very well—it isn't like I'm seriously looking into going there). But yeah, everyone else does seem to have some idea. Not to mention, I'm probably the youngest person who's commented so far, unless Smile is younger than me. That may have something to do with it... ;)
(April 29, 2010 - 7:33 pm)
I'm hoping to go to UNO (University of Nebraska at Omaha) or UNL (University of Nebraska at Lincoln). At the moment I'm leaning towards UNL because I could get a scholarship for dancing and I could dance there. I just found that our yesterday. My 2 sisters go to UNO (Go Mavericks!!!!!!!!!!)
(April 29, 2010 - 4:41 pm)
UU! ... That was random. I wonder what the chances are anyone will know what I mean.
(April 30, 2010 - 3:33 pm)
I'll be using that Florida Pre-paid College Program thingy that I know I've explained before and I'm just to lazy to explain again... We'll probably move down to the Orlando area sometime while I'm in highschool (junior/senior year?) to "establish a year of residency" so it's valid. Then I believe I'll go to the University of Central Florida. I have absolutely no idea what it specializes in, but we drove through it once and I loved it. It's quite big (the nation's 3rd largest university). I'd like to major in English and minor in photography. I'd be very happy as an editor, and, in my spare time, a photographer. But yeah, when I'm at college, I'll probably work at the Orlando International Airport, because I love the whole feeling of airports, and I especially love that airport. Or I'll work at Disney so I can get to the park for free hahaha. I'm submitting this now, because I'm getting off topic. :)
(April 30, 2010 - 4:42 pm)