Preparing Your Application - 1

Research Begins at Home

As you assemble all the view books, notes, and other materials about a particular school you are applying to, think about yourself: your academic and extracurricular interests, your aspirations for a particular career or way of life. Then think about the way in which your courses and activities in high school and outside of school may illustrate your unique qualities and interests. You may also want to refer to the Thinking About College section of the College Center web site.

Draw three columns on a piece of paper. In the first column list your interests, academic, extracurricular, and career. Opposite each interest list an activity or an insight you may have had in a course project, that reveals that interest. Then in the third column list the courses and activities and programs at the college or university-that will help you continue with each interest.

Look at this list, while you are filling our your application. It will help you to focus on how you will fit at the college you are applying to.

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