What are the best ways to help you get into a good college?

Question

All this college stuff gets me confused!

Answer 1

First, calm down.

Now:
- How are your grades? Are you taking AP or honors-level classes? Are you getting mostly A's and B's?
- How are your extracurriculars? Have you taken a leadership position? Have you stuck with music or a sport or a club for several years?
- How are your test scores on the SAT/ACT?

Colleges like consistent good grades, or if you started out with bad grades they like to see an upward trend in your GPA over several semesters. Also, it's OK to re-take the SAT if you didn't do well the first time. Colleges generally count only your highest score. Finally, don't get bogged down with a ton of extracurriculars. Rather, focus on a few that you're really committed to, and try to gain a leadership position in one of them. Colleges like leadership potential (depth of commitment) more than breadth of commitment.

Good luck.

Answer 2

All of the answers so far are good ones.

Take college prep classes. Get good grades. Apply to all the schools you'd like to attend. Get the best scores you can on the SAT and ACT tests.

Your junior year is probably the most important for grades because that will be the last complete year on your transcript, but don't quit working when you get an acceptance letter. Schools can change their minds.

Another point. Apply for every scholarship you even marginally qualify for. Millions of dollars of scholarship money go unapplied for every year. Why shouldn't you and your parents let somebody else pay for college? You will most likely have to write an essay, but you only have to write one. Keep it on your hard drive. Tweak it a little for every application. A lot of universities require one as well. You may be able to use the one essay for all of them. OK, it's a couple hours of work, but you might get thousands of dollars of scholarship money out of it. I would work for $1000 an hour.

Keep working and don't stress too much.

Answer 3

A Good GPa and SAT score are obviously the most important strenghts you can have, along with a good resume of clubs and activities (though I did barely a thing in H.s. and still got into my schools of choice). Smaller universities tend to look at your smaller details while big schools concentrate on the numerical aspects of your education (*grades!). Get an early start on applications , too, because schools often review and accept those in the first string of applicants

Answer 4

good gpa, good grades, a lot of clubs, and stuff to show the college ure a hard worker

Answer 5

Good academics,state test scores, SAT and PSAT and regents scores. Also extracurriculars, where you have worked, sports, clubs, etc. Also your leadership skills and honor societies count too.