what kind of colleges worth getting in?

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Answer 1

Anywhere that will give you a real education, as opposed to narrow job training. Because colleges are lousy at job training, and even lousier at predicting what sort of job you ought to be training for. What they can do, however, is to teach you about the wider world--science, mathematics, history, languages, law, literature, and the fine arts--so as to render you wise and flexible enough to deal with the inevitable changes that will occur in your life and environment. The educated person is immune to charlatans who would try to convince them them that the world will end on 12/31/99, or that only a conspiracy of secret operators stands between them and eternal wealth. The educated person can take pleasure from small things, like books, and can understand and tolerate people different from himself. In short, he can go through life without being bored and scared, and that's worth a lot.

If none of this makes any sense to you at all, you're probably not ready for college--and perhaps you'll never be--and shouldn't spend the money. Take a vocational course in some field that seems to appeal to you and get on with your life in the meantime; education is available in many forms and along many paths.

And whatever you do, don't even think of going to college for the party atmosphere. This is a whole sham that low-quality college administrators tend to encourage in order to distract their students. If you want a good time, look into renting a condominum near Miami's South Beach or some similar resort. You'll save an enormous amount of money and have a much better time.

Answer 2

A college worth getting in is one that you WANT to get into.

And obviously that'll depend a lot on your personal preferences, your grades, your inclinations and what courses you'd like to study-- for example, if you're as interested in literature as I am, you'd probably like the idea of Brown University or Dartmouth College; if you like engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the place for you; if you are enamoured with law, go to Harvard. These are a few of the stereotypical courses that you can take...

Problem is how good your academic qualifications are, and how much you can afford to pay for college. Some of these colleges have financial aid plans, true, but they are limited in number as well as amount, and applying for financial aid might even affect your chances of getting into a particular college if it doesn't have a needs-blind policy (i.e. no discrimination against an applicant whether or not he/she requires financial aid etc).

There's a lot you have to consider and work out for yourself, or perhaps with the help of your school guidance counsellor or even with your parents if they're suitably college-savvy. I worked out most of my stuff based on The Complete Idiot's Guide to College Planning by David Powell. Check http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0028633687-0
You can either spring for it or check if your school library has a copy or two :)

good luck there!