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Frequently Asked Questions
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Angell Hall at the University of Michigan |
| "The most important question one must ask him or herself is, 'Can I deal with rejection?' For most of my peers, the answer seemed to be 'No' in regards to filling out college applications. The majority of my friends applied to the same five schools, despite the fact that they could have gone places considerably better. In my mind, if you get accepted to 100% of the schools you applied to, there is something wrong. Take my case for example: Very early in the year, I began to decide what schools I wanted to apply to. Being the nerd that I am, I came up with a simple number system to help determine what schools I should apply to. First, I ranked my academic achievements as a 7 on a scale of 10.. Using this number, I asked myself what schools would be just below, and just above, that number. The best way, I found, was to have half of the schools I was applying to equal or less qualified than I thought I was. The other half were more selective, competitive schools that I wasn't expecting to get into. So, I applied to ten schools, five equal or below my standard (Kent, Cincinnati, OU, OSU, Indiana) and five above (Hofstra, American, Ithaca, George Washington, Syracuse). Those letters came rolling in and I only was accepted to five schools. However, my number two choice happened to accept me! So, if worst would have come to worse, I would have been more than happy to go to any of the other four schools that would've accepted me. But I got lucky, and this could easily happen to you. Don't be worried about rejection - be worried about underachieving." |
Brian Weiss
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Grace Chen |
"I would highly recommend applying online if that's an option, because it's a lot neater and many of the application sites will organize your information for you. Plus, there are only two or three major application sites, which is good because you can usually save and transfer your information between all schools using that site so you don't have to type it many times." | |
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"Get started as soon as possible. Senior year is the busiest year that you will have, and if you are organized and have a list of schools (and the applications) to which you want to apply, you will make your life easier. Also, have the schools to which you want to apply picked out by the time you start your senior year. It will be more difficult to visit the schools as you get close to the deadlines. Do your homework beforehand."
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Michelle Sabo Duquesne University |
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