What did you do to get into college?
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Become president of some clubs.
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If you are looking to do something which will assist in getting into college continue to work and do volunteering as well. Colleges always look at extracurricular activities when viewing applications. It takes more now than just high grades and an employment record. As young as you are you have high levels of energy and lots of time. You should take advantage of not having any personal responsibilities other than school, employment and use your time wisely. Don't get caught up in the partying and other irresponsible behaviors so many youth do these days. It will really harm your chances of gaining entry into good universities.\n\nGood luck and much happiness always.
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I did not graduate high school and years latter went and got my GED. then went on to college. Chose the college you want to attend and they will help you find the grants and fill out the paperwork. I know it is overwhelming for someone who has never done it before and NAU was great in helping me out.
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1. Get a financial aid\n2. Print your papers in computer lab\n3. Maintain 3.5 GPA or higher to get scholarship\n4. Prepare your own lunch\n5. apply workstudy program\n6. Be a leader in student organization (usually they compensate up to 1500 / term
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I wasn't too big into school.  My Senior year was the pits.  I almost quit 1/2 way through!  So bored!  My friends had all gotten to be really weird.  I was under so much pressure to choose a college and a career.  I just wanted to be done with it!
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1) You can go to a good college and get into any program except for any honors program.\n2) Colleges look at your 10-12 grade year grades, your SAT score and references. \n3) Yeah, well if your GPA is above a 3.0. If your essay is good enough and you have great references. \n4) You can get scholarships whenever. If the scholarship is from the school then you should try at the begging of each semester.\nTry fastweb.com also apply for FAFSA\n5) I so wished I would have gone to a community college first. Some people think that it's crazy, but it's beneficial if you have problems in high school and want to continue your education. You can transfer to WHATEVER university you want to after you graduate community college, if your grades are good.\nIt's also good if you don't feel as if you're ready for a big university with classes full of students and want to start out small.
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The types that grades that you need is different for every university or college that you apply.  \n\nCollege admissions offices look at the whole individual when students apply.  The things that they look at are GPA, type of classes that you take (AP, College Prep, etc), test scores, personal statement, recommendations and interviews.  Therefore, if you don't have the best grades, but you are very involved and have an incredible essay and recommendations, you can get into a university.  \n\nThe better question to ask is what is the college or universities acceptance rate is... acceptance rate is the percent of students that are accepted to the university out of the total number of students that apply.  If you want to find this answer very quick, you can visit the following website:\nhttp://www.collegeboard.com\n\nJust search the schools that you are interested in, and you'll find the acceptance rate and much more information about the university.  \n\nAlso, if you're very curious, call the admission office at the universities or colleges that you are interested in.  Tell them information about yourself (gpa, test scores, etc), and they'll be able to give you a good idea of whether you would be accepted to the school or not.  They will not give you a definite answer, but they will be able to give you a good idea.\n\nI hope this helps... good luck!
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Simple, get accepted first. That would be the hardest part. Once you get in, there are numerous grants, scholarships, and loans you can use to pay for college. Sometimes the university will lower the tuition you have to pay also! Private institutions bend over backwards to help you pay for college since they really like diversity. It is just a matter of taking the time to get it done! \n\nStart the process, get admitted!!!
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Apply.\n\nNo, really.  Apply.  It is the first step in getting ANY scholarship.\nTalk to your school guidance councellor, and he or she will show you where to apply.
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- Never give up.  \n- Keep learning about technology or you'll be left behind.  \n- Keep asking questions about how and why. \n- Understand that *everyone* - from your mother, your teachers, the people who write your textbooks, to the guy on the news, everyone-  has an opinion and has a purpose for saying the things they say.  If you don't understand who is making the statement, you won't fully understand the statement itself.\n- Don't waste your time with people of bad character.\n- Find an older person you can look up to to confide in.  Ask them about trials they faced when they were your age.\n - My father told me, "Since you get OK grades, you'll get into an OK college.  Get good grades, and you'll get into a good college."  This is very true, and a good college will help you stay on top of the competition.\n- Don't waste time in chat rooms.\n- Treat everyone with repsect, especially girls and those in authority (even if you think they don't deserve it).\n- Again, never give up.  Try something you don't think you're able to do.\n- Make good use of your summers away from school.  Learn a skill, get a job, get exercise, read a lot.\n- Be proactive.  Search for opportunities to better yourself.  You will find them.
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I can only tell you about my past experience... which has led me to believe that there is no university one cannot get into.  The key is patience and not necessarily depending upon the standard system of entry.\n\nBy which I mean, go ahead and apply and see if you get in through the front door.  If you don't get accepted, then decide where you desire to attend and move there.  Take a part-time job and then take one or two courses under whatever policy allows this.  It might mean weekends or night classes.  All universities usually allow locals to take some classes.  Try to take them in your area of interest if possible.  \n\nThe key is to get great grades in these classes and to endear yourself to pertinent professors and department heads.  These are the people who will recognize your potential and go to bat for you.  Department heads are particularly useful as all they have to do is wave their magic pens, and you are in.\n\nIf for some reason you cannot get into the department of choice, find another department where you can smooze yourself into the door.  Once accepted into the university one is usually able to 'change one's mind' and change departments and degree programs.\n\nUsing this system my friends and I have been able to get into a number of colleges that wouldn't have us based on SAT's or some other criteria.    \n\nHope this helps.
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Doing your college research is important and a good thing to get started on early.  However, there is a step that must begin prior to that.  \n\nIn order to maximize your search, you need to start thinking about your needs.  From a planning perspective can you answer the following:\n1.  What are my strengths?  What am I good at?\n2.  Instead of thinking about my major, what do I want a career in?  What are my career interests?  \n3.  What do I know about my personality?  Do I have a preference for extraversion/introversion, etc.  How can I be sure to "fit" my career, and my college choice?\n4.  What are my values?  What matter's most to me?\n\nThe start of your college research starts with self awareness.  If you can honestly answer the questions above, then you will be more informed and can make a confident decision on what is the right college for you.\n\nHere are some links for good steps in self awareness.\n1.  Strengths:  http://www.strengthsquest.com  This site is becoming widely used by college and universities in their leadership programs.  \n2.  Interests:  http://apps.collegeboard.com/myroad/navigator.jsp   This is a career interest service provided by the College Board.  Good start at interests. \n3.  Job market and outlook:  http://www.bls.gov/oco/  This site is run by the Dept. of Labor on current job and economic trends impacting the workplace.\n4.  Personality:  http://www.typefocus.com/ This site provides a free personality assessment that you can use for learning about your personality preferences.  \n\nBy doing some of your own "personal" homework, and increasing your own self awareness, you can then truly make a well informed decision about what college to attend.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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I got into MIT this year, and I'll tell you the following. To get into ANY Ivy League or Elite College you will need the following.\n\n- Excellent Recommendations\n- Ranking: Top 5-10% of your class\n- SAT's- Awesome scores\n- One of the strongest High School Curriculums. \n- Write great essays\n- Do a great interview.\n\nRemember, most of the decision relies on how you look in the application. You might use the "College Matters Guide to Getting Into the Elite College of your Dreams". Is an awesome book and explains you step by step what to do. The writers of the book are actual students from Ivy League and Elite Colleges including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford and Brown. Use it!
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Try very hard to improve your grades, good grades will help you get into a good school, but as others have said, schools take into consideration, circumstances.    You will certainly want o be strong i science and math, especially Biology and Chemistry.  Before you choose a college, make sure it has a reputable pre med program.  Med school are extremely competetive, you will need good grades in college and/or someone with a lot of clout to get you in.  If you want something bad enough you will succeed, but in the event you don't, there are always options.  I work for a company that builds medical devices.  I work in Oncology R&D and we are part of the battle against cancer as well.  In fact, everything I have worked on there has been used on me on at least one occassion over the last 6 years as I am fighting late stage RCC.\n\nOh, I almost forgot.  There are other types of doctors that fight cancer also, not just Surgical Oncologists.  In fact, there is a growing trend toward Interventional Radiologists who use less invasive methods to treat people.  If you like, Email me and I can fill you in some, but make the Subject line interesting enough so I don't delete it as Spam.
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Boy, some answers sure are mean!\n\nCongratulations on graduating!\n\nIf you did not fill out any applications then you should get started now. You won't make it in time for Fall semester, but you are ahead of the game for the next year.  That gives you some time to really investigate schools and decide your major. Lucky you!\n\nIf you are in a hurry to get started, you can go to your local community college and try to take some of the basics that will transfer on to your University of choice.\n\nGoing to college helps you to grow in so many ways, and helps to secure a decent future. It's a great idea, so don't let anyone slow you down or get in your way!
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First you have to learn how to spell and if you cant there is always spell checks and dictionary's for you. What are your interests find out and focus on going to collage there are test that you can take to help you see what your good at GOOD LUCK
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I went to college and graduated in 4 years, but not all college students do.\n\nMy advice would be for you to start out at a JC or community college.  You will get your basic classes out of the way like English, Biology, Psychology, and the like.  You will get used to the level of learning to which you must commit.  All of these credits will transfer when you are ready to go on to a 4 year college.\n\nIn your case, I think this would be the better bet.  One thing that does concern me is that if you were not emotionally mature to handle high school, then how can you be sure you are now emotionally mature to handle the pressures of college? College isn't all parties and social events; you really have to learn to discipline yourself if yo are going to succeed.\n\nGood luck with everything.