| if youre friends with people that have the same academic interests and acheivements as you, look where theyre applying. one of my good friends had NO idea where to apply cause her GC or parents didnt really offer her much to go on. so she asked me where i was applying, and without me knowing, just wound up applying to most of the same schools as me. and then when she wanted more schools than i listed.. i let her borrow my book of 361 best colleges and she made huge lists and just kept on narrowing them down.
whoever said it before was right, look to the people around you. she wound up applying ED to NYU which was my former second choice and most of her backup schools if she didnt get in were schools that i was waiting to hear from.
in my guidence office we have a list of every school and every student that applied and their stats and if htye were accepted/denied/deffered. something like that would be very useful. and look to see where past classes as your hs wound up going |