College (Junior/Senior years)

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Was wondering if anyone here had any helpful information for those, like me, who are Juniors this year that are thinking about college right now. I'm mainly concerned with choosing where I might want to apply (only really thought of 4 or 5, 4 of which are in California) and finding scholarships.

Do you know what you want to do(career)?

Well, I'd hope that this thread wouldn't be specifically focused on me but would be applicable for anyone. But as for your question, I've considered a career dealing with Physics or Calculus (they usually come together) and, this is a kinda big maybe, possibly something dealing with Computer Science.

The point I was making is that if you know what you are planning careerwise, you can focus on schools that excel in that field.

Isn't that a little obvious >.> I also haven't found many good scholarships that I'd be interested in, though I've only used fastwebs.com for it, which probably isn't the best place. Are there other places for good scholarships?

me and my parents decided that it be easer for me to go to a smaller Jr college (less money on them too / they got 3 in college) and then after i was done with my core classes (or as many hours as i could transfer over) to transfer to a university or sr college. i'm going to a private college (the one my sister is going too) cuz it has a good art program. And both of theses colleges have a program to help with disabilities... dyslexia

I don't need to go to a Junior College. That's what my dad did, but I'm not in a position where I would need or want to take that path.

you must be a brain. lol my sister didn't go to jr college either. but she;s not stupid like me either. She's going to be one of those ladies that take notes in court.. My dad is LOVING that.

Don't they have someone at your school you can talk to about this or something?

Yes, but getting knowledge from as many people as I can is a lot better than relying on just one or two sources of info. Unless you were talking about the scholarships (I have my settings as flat), in which case yes, I am going to ask my counselor about those, but I also want to see if anyone else knows good places.

Well for scholorships why don't you check with the guidance department at your school, and obviously take the SAT's if you haven't already. Also go to some college fairs in your area and find out about some schools you are interested in. Then talk with your guidance counselor about them and narrow down your choices. It's good to get input from other people, but honestly the best information you're gonna get is from your guidance counselor. That's what their job is.

Are there people who offer scholarships based on good SAT performance? I think I did pretty well on it, seeing as the vocabulary was so much easier than the PSAT vocab ironically enough.

Not that I know of, but why don't you just go check with your counselor? They'll know about this stuff and it doesn't hurt to ask. My high school was always notifying us about different scholorships.

Around what time? I know I can ask my counselor once the meeting is set up, but I don't like waiting >.>

Well I don't know what time. I don't know your school or counselor. Just set up a meeting and ask. You're only a junior you still have time.

I meant what time was most of the scholarship stuff happening.

Uhh... I think mostly around the beginning of senior year, but there were one's we heard about throughout the year too.

No wonder most of the ones I've seen have been crappy.

I've been checking out different colleges to apply for. Most of them are outside of New York. For some reason I really want to leave New York. My mom is kind of pressuring me to go to an ivy league university. I'm mainly trying to focus on a college that will help stem my career choice.

I don't know about near New York and the East Coast, but in the West, there's this type of relationship between the states that allows students to go to out-of-state public colleges at a drastically reduced cost, though I can't remember if it reduces it to the in-state cost. Ivy League Universities are not always what they're cut out to be. There are plenty of others that will prepare you just as well and even better, depending on what you want to go into. You could always apply to one or two as your reach applications (the ones that are least likely to get into).