Continued updates of college decisions!

pricklypear1
Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:40:55 +0000

Hi everyone!!
Since college admission season is over for me, I thought I’d share where I’m going and my experience throughout the whole process. Hopefully, some people will find it useful! :))

Starting off with where I’m going, I am committing to San Jose State University (Go Spartans!) for the major Undeclared, and hopefully applying to the Nursing Major! As I mentioned in an earlier post, my first choice came down to SJSU and SFSU, and the only thing separating these schools was the location/distance from my home. SFSU is slightly farther away from my home than SJSU, and I will be commuting so SJSU will be more convenient for me.

In addition, I wanted to share some of the most important things that I learned from the college admissions process.

1. Essays are a great way of showing your personality, so do try to really be yourself and express who you are through words! Especially for the UC essays, I felt like the prompts were really general so they provided a range of topics that I could answer, and in all of them I was able to show my personality.

2. Definitely consider doing a sport or some sort of extracurricular all throughout high school. I recommend doing whatever truly interests you: music, theater, sports, etc. whatever it may be, for all four years to show that you really do care about this extracurricular. From my experience, I actually did not do a sport (which I regret!), but I did do music for 10+ years and this has always been a hobby of mine.

3. Lastly, choose a school that really fits you. I was also accepted into USFCA, and name-wise (for some people), it might be more prestigious than SJSU because it’s a private school. But, I chose SJSU over USFCA because of the variety of programs that it offers that fit my interest (namely, the Nursing program that I can apply for, as well as the CLS program if I don’t get into the Nursing Program). USFCA is of course an awesome school, but the nursing program is direct admit and I’d like to attend a school that has a wider array of programs where I can explore different interests before settling on one.

Thank you all so so much for being supportive throughout my college decisions journey and I hope you all have an awesome rest of your day!