How To Get Into And Good College?

How do you get into a good college?

• Answer:

  Keep your grades up Keep those grades up, and prepare for the ACTs/SATs. Also, admissions officers love volunteer work, so get as many hours in as you can. Also, be active in your high school. Join highly-respected clubs and groups, and get leadership positions in them. A good attitude helps Good grades and a good attitude help. You need to have good spelling and grammar and high achievements. Volunteer work helps too. Having money in a bank account shows that you know the value of a dollar, but it counts against you more heavily when they calculate your financial "need." Volunteer You should do volunteer work. Ask animal shelters and even your teachers if they need help. Grades, grades, grades If you do not keep your grades up you will never go to a great college, although most kids that do have good grades do not get into college because they do not do any extra activities. So the admissions officers think that the person only makes good grades because he has to study everyday, 24/7. Well-rounded The most important thing is to be well rounded. Colleges look at grades (GPA), your class rank, the classes you take, the extra-curricular you participate in (both at school and outside of school), and your SAT/ACT scores. When you apply, it is also important to have well-written essays and good recomendation letters. Colleges want to see that YOU are interested in their school and willing to put in the effort. So, keep in touch with the schools you are interested in, do your best in school, and have a good variety of extra-curricular. Community Service Overrated I think the community service aspect is a completely warped view of what will satisfy the "life experience" element of the admissions process. It's one of many ways that you can enrich yourself with difference experiences, though far from the best. If admissions committees really enjoyed seeing you suffering through tedious, worthless work, they would just set up a boot camp for prospective students. Instead, focus on joining organizations (school clubs or otherwise) where you can demonstrate something in the way of leadership or constructive life experience. Cleaning animal cages and sucking exhaust fumes on the side of the highway while you're picking up fast food wrappers will probably not prepare you for the academic hardships you will face at the country's top universities. If you'd prefer to make an unrewarding career out of menial work, you should throw away your college applications, grow a mustache and get some applications for your local police department. Disagree with well-rounded The top schools in the nation -- I'm thinking the Ivies here -- aren't interested just in well-rounded individuals...they are looking for EXCEPTIONAL students. It is far better to be, say, the president of a club than a member of many disparate ones. It is better to be an all-state softball player than an unexceptional player in three sports. It is better to have had one essay published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine than a hundred articles printed in local newspapers. It is better to have made $100,000 for yourself with some sort of clever innovation than volunteering a few hours a week at the local hospital. Ivy league schools want tomorrow's leaders and world-changers, not well-rounded get-alongs. Make a mark for yourself in something or somehow and you will stand out from the others in the admission process. Interview">Interview">Interview">Interview The Ivy league schools plus a few others require personal interviews. Be ready for questions like "What are you reading now?" and questions about current events. You can be a genius but if you know nothing about what's going on in Darfur or you're reading chick-lit you're going to have a problem. You just won't have the knowledge to keep up at a great school. Essays">Essays">Essays">Essays As a college consultant, I think students can tip the scale in their favor by writing captivating essays. This takes some brainstorming and self-reflection, but too many colleges say that 90% of the essays they receive are boring. Think about what makes you unique compared to the other kids in your high school and what a college may want to know about you that they don't already know from your application. Do more than one draft and proofread more than one time. Ask someone else to read it back to you so you can see how it sounds and whether you would want to make any word or structural changes. Also Disagree with Well-Rounded It's good to be well-rounded, but the best students will excel in one or two areas, and will have the most likely chance of admittance into a top college. These students may have attended or won some national or international competition, published original scientific research, started a homeless shelter, played the lead violin position in their city's orchestra, and so on. As Joe Jewell puts it in his article about well-rounded students, "colleges want to build a well-rounded class rather than individually admit well-rounded students." There are many good universities like Lovely professional University, jaypee university, NIRMA etc in India which have there own test for admission if grades are less. Also Lovelhy university is in great news as it provides admission assistance and scholarship based upon the written test. There are many good universities which provide admission based upon there entrance test. Some of these universities are : Galgotia University Lovely Professional University KIIT university. Lovely professional University is an international university which provides quide good scholarship too.