What advice would you give to high school seniors about college?
Begin your work of preparing for and seeking the best college for you way before your senior year. While you shouldn’t be obsessing about college for your entire four years of high school, doing well in your classes, involving yourself in activities, and learning about the colleges you might wish to attend begins with the beginning of your freshman year. By the end of your junior year, you should have done enough of the work that during your senior year you should be able to devote plenty of time to enjoying your last year of high school, fniling all your applications, maintaining your average, and preparing to leave home.During your junior year and the summer before your senior year, you should spend a lot of time visiting the colleges you think you’d like to attend, taking the tours, talking to students who are on campus selecting a group of colleges where you think you could learn and feel comfortable. Your guidance counselor will tell you that you should pick a couple of tough admissions, several schools where you will be challenged and have a good chance of admission, and a couple where your admission should be practically guaranteed by your record. Spend serious time writing a model college essay, which you can adjust for particular colleges. Isn’t the word processor a great tool when you need it?Be conscientious about doing all the work you need to do to make your applications during the first semester of your senior year. Also, make certain yur parent fill out the FAFSA form to assure proper consideration of financial aid. While you’re doing all this, keep your grades up. You should be completely finished with the college application process before Christmas break.Now comes the fun part! Enjoy the winter and spring of your senior year. Don’t slough off your studies, but remember that you will be heading for a new life next fall, so enjoy the last semester. Good luck and have a great year!
What is the best plan/resource for a high school senior planning to run cross country in college (running & strength training)?
The plan I use and follow is something like thisMonday: 1 mile warm up. Stretch + Plyos. 5–8 mile run at an EPR pace. (EPR means endurance paced run. Usually 1:20 slower than your fastest mile, try and consistently hit this pace.)Tuesday: Speed / Consistency workout. This is usually trying to build up speed and hitting certain paces through multiple paces. The distance can be from 400 meters to 1000 meters, usually no more than that. 1–2 mile cool down following.Wednesday: Strength workout. I usually do 3 exercises per body area. So find 3 ab exercises, 3 upper body/arm exercises and 3 lower body / leg exercises.Thursday: This day is usually a mix of Tuesday and Monday. Mid distance running around 2–4 miles but at a faster pace such as Steady State (SS) This pace is a minute slower than your fastest mile. 1–2 mile cool down.Friday: Off-day. Do a slow, short run if you feel like it will help for Saturday.Saturday: Speed / Hill workout. Usually some fast paced hill repeats. Find a good, but not too steep hill close to your house or school. Try and hit a certain pace each rep. After this usually a mile or so cool down.Sunday: Strength workout. Same thing as Wednesday. 3 good exercises for each body area.Hope this helps.
Should I rent an apartment/home during college? Please help.?
You do not need a full-time job to pay off rent, so don't let that make you feel that you can't study! Since you're only taking your gen-ed classes at a community college, I would stay at home and just have a job that would save up money for future expenses. This way you can save up money and not have to worry about rent so much since you still have studying to do anyhow! It's better to just save up for now to be secure then to just jump into something (unless your parents were paying for you of course). I guess I could just break it down to a pro-con list: Leaving home and paying off rent on your own: Pros: - freedom to do what you want - have experience renting a place - learn responsibility - become more observant of what wastes money Cons: - may not be able to pay off rent or roommate may not be able to leading to possible eviction - if living in an apartment with a best friend, it can lead to ruined friendships (I know it sounds weird but this is actually very common for college students. The person you know and love as a friend can be a completely different person once you live with them.) - less money is going towards saving for college tuition (this does not include books or other supplies either) - Maruchan becomes your best and only friend. You realize just how poor you are once you start college and everything is usually instant. Staying Home: Pros: - save up money for college tuition, books, etc - REAL FOOD. - do not need to worry about paying for rent Cons: - less freedom - have to pay for gas for your car to get to the college (unless you're taking public transport, which just costs less) - you somewhat get less of a college experience but you can just save that for when you get into Columbia :) - because of the 50 min or so commute, you might be less active in extracurricular activities I hope this helps ya! :)
College tuition payment plans?
Im a 17 year old, about to be a senior in 2 days. I've been looking at colleges for a while now and its hard to make a choice. i want my career to be in the medical field or criminal justice. So a while ago i was in a hospital talking to a nurse who was still in school. she told me that she was at the time attending a community college and that the hospital that she was working for is paying for her entire tuition plus books. she only thing she had to do was work in for the hospital for a number of years. that idea sounds perfect to me and i think i might want to do the same but i need more information. like do all hospitals do that? do u have to go to a community college in order to do that or can i go to a 4 year college or university? if i wanted to do that would i talk to someone from the university or the hospital near a university that i would like to attend? if anyone has any info please let me know. i would really appreciate it
I am currently a senior in high school with 12 credit hours in college. Should I take summer courses this summer in 2018 to help get ahead even more?
Your doing great. If you want to take summer classes, just make sure they will transfer to the college you want to attend. Not all classes transfer. This can include basic prerequisite s like psych and sociology. Most all colleges require statistics and English comp or lit. College math or algebra. Contact the admissions counselor directly. Do not depend on the college web site. If not, you can always find a job. Money will definitely help. Another option, is to volunteer in your community or with a a nonprofit organization. Colleges love seeing volunteering on an application. Leadership and communication skills are a plus.
I’m a sophomore in college planning on taking the LSAT sometime in my senior year. Is it ever too early to start studying for the LSAT?
Yes. You would be better off focusing on your current courses in order to secure the highest GPA possible on your undergraduate transcript. That would help your chances of getting into law school better than early prep on the LSAT.For LSAT prep, you likely need about 3–4 months of dedicated study. The prep courses can be very helpful, but some people don’t need them or don’t learn well that way. If you are not going to be able to have a lot of time per day or per week leading up to the test then you may want to start studying a little earlier than 3–4 months, but I wouldn’t think you would need to start 2 years earlier. I recall a lot of the studying was more about getting used to the type of questions that would be asked rather than memorizing data or facts.Best of luck.
How does the Marine Corps pay for college?
Well first of all because you do not have a degree, you would have to join as an enlisted marine. As a former enlisted marine I can tell oh that they have a few different programs that will help pay for college. If you go reserve, you will have to do a couple of tours out of the country to get anything significant. Depending on your tour, you may receive different amounts of these programs. For instance, doing one tour for one year will get you 60% of benefits for the new gi bill. So they will pay 60% of your tuition, give you a yearly allowance of 600$ for books and give you 60% of a living expense that will be determined by the location of your school. Do two tours and you will get 80%. Do three tours and you will get 100%. I personally get 1671 for living expenses, over 1000 a year for books, and 90% of my tuition is paid. If you go active then you can receive 100% after 4 years of service. I would not recommend that... its called the post 9-11 gi bill. Here's a link to a website that'll get you more info. http://www.gibill.va.gov/ Good luck, and believe me, the marine corps will change your life for the better and make you into a man.
As a high school senior, is it possible to lose financial aid from a college? If I do bad in one class, will I lose my scholarship?
It is very wise to educate yourself about the conditions of your scholarship so there will be no wondering.There is no way we can guess the answer based on what you provided. Some scholarships are entirely need based. Some are based on merit and have fixed requirements for gpa and SAT. We just don’t know about your scholarship because you provided no details. You should check your offer letter for conditions.You should know that admission to college is usually conditional. This means that they expect you to finish senior year with similar grades. If you fail a class or possibly get a D your acceptance can be rescinded and therefore the scholarship goes away, if it was from the college (but we don’t know because you didn’t say). Is a D or F the ‘bad grade’?Scholarship maintenance also sometimes comes with conditions for your college gpa. For that you should read the details in your offer letter and on the website of the entity granting the scholarship. In addition, read the Student Handbook (search online) for understanding of how to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress as this is often necessary to maintenance of scholarships and financial aid.