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Choosing the right college isn't a
science; don't take anyone's advice - including ours - without
considering all your options and resources. In fact, you might have a
few schools in mind already. Your father wants you to go to Cal
State; your mother went to the University
of Florida; someone once told you something nice about Bard;
and your counselor thinks you should look at Duke.
On the other hand, you might just feel completely clueless and alone in
this whole college search game.
Don't panic! We can help you sort
out all of the information and make some intelligent choices about where
you might like to spend these four great years of your life.
Review.com has many helpful resources that you can use to narrow down
your choices, learn whether the students are really happy at that
school, and figure out whether your only chance of being accepted is by
presidential order. It doesn't matter if you decide that you want to ski
on the weekends, love the laid-back atmosphere, and relate to what the
students have to say at University of Vermont, if you don't have the
grades and stats, you won't get in. So, this search and match
process is very important to save time and find a school within your
reach that still scores high on your own selectivity chart (Remember:
you're choosing a school just as much as they are choosing you.). So,
let's get started...
We have many articles written by the experts to help you with the
college search. Yeah, reading can be a bore, but this is an important
decision, one that you should be well-informed about when making. Here's
a good start: Specifics
to Consider When Choosing a College is an article that will help you
figure out exactly what things you should be thinking about as you
choose schools. Whether you're a transfer student or still in high
school, you'll find several other informative articles on the site that
you should read and learn from as you begin the search.
Spend some time searching for schools that you already know about using Review.com's
college search engine. This tool will help you find out the stats
for that school and compare them to your own (and also put them up
agaist other schools' stats, using the Compare feature). You can also
use our Advanced
Search to search by everything from location to average SAT scores
and see the results of which colleges match your criteria.
We survey the students at the best 331 schools in the US to see what
they have to say about college life. Click on the "Students
Say" link from the individual college pages after you do a search
for the school, or go to the rankings
section to get an overview of what students have to say about
everything from quality of profs to the quality of parties at the best
331 schools.
You can use this fun, interactive tool in two ways. One is to generate a
list of 15 schools that Counselor-O-Matic
computes as good fits for you (five safeties, five matches, and five
reaches). The second way is to see whether Counselor-O-Matic thinks that
you match well with any school that you search for on Review.com. You
enter your stats, scores, and preferences, and then Counselor-O gives
you the low-down. This is a fun way to narrow your choices and to also
see how your list of schools gets better as your scores improve.
What is the likelihood
that you'll get into the schools on your list? With 2nd
Review, our Admissions Experts take a look at your essay, your
application, and the list of schools to which you are applying to help
you to determine your chances of admission.
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