Community College advice!

vcoleman
Sun, 27 May 2007 02:35:39 +0000

Hey I hope that you do very well. the community college experience is definitely different from the traditional path, especially at 17 or 18 when you are fresh out of high school and have to work/etc while you are in school.

My biggest suggestion to you in terms of any extracurriculars you would like to do that you think would GET you into the school of your deams remember that

a) its always your grades that GET you in, the ECs are just the icing on the cake
b)QUALITY not QUANTITY of ECs… dont be like me… i was involved like like 30,000 activities and just ened up burning myself out… comapre me to frrph… he did no extracurricular activities to speak of (or at least thats what he said) and he got into yale… i didnt. i think that should say enough about the system and what they are REALLY looking ffor…

Anyway, thsoe are my big tips, but hey keep in touch. We are all here rooting for you! I am going to Cornell next semester and I will def tell you how it goes, etc.

Ill send you a PM with my email addy… keep in touch!

Oh and I forgot! One BIG advantage that attending a community college has over the traditional route is that you CAN get plenty of transfer scholarships.

I would definitely join PTK if you have the opportunity (dont listen to what other peope on this forum say- they really DO NOT know what they are talking about when it comes to this). You can get some scholarships at schools just by being in PTK. And you can apply for things specific to PTK members like the USA Today All academic team and It seems to have given a leg up to the people who applied to THE transfer scholarship - The jack kent cooke scholarship where you can get 30K a year type in “Jack Kent Cooke foundation scholarships in google and look for undergraduate transfer scholarship” - you can apply to this regardless of your “citizen ship status”…

Ayway, best of luck and maybe we will be seeing you going to Berkely or LA or even Stanford next year!