| Applying to college is a stressful process, though | | | | attend. |
| planning in advance and doing the research can make | | | | 3. Attend some schools. There is a difference |
| things easier. | | | | between various schools - some of them are large |
| 1. Realize there is a school for each student who | | | | with about 30,000 students, and others have just |
| wishes to go. There are numerous has | | | | some hundred students. Would you like to go to a |
| degree-granting institutions in the USA. Almost each | | | | country campus or a city campus? South or North? A |
| accepts the diversity of applicants, just a small | | | | certain religious group? You should go there and |
| amount of elite colleges accept half of applicants. | | | | explore everything. In case you have any friend from |
| Thus, you are getting into school if you would like to | | | | the high school that goes there, you need to ask him |
| go. | | | | to give you a tour of a place. |
| 2. Also, such top schools as UChicago, Stanford, | | | | 4. Successfully finish high school or academic |
| Duke, Harvard, etc get numerous applications from | | | | equivalent. People moving on to higher studies have |
| the top students for the Freshman classes. Actually, | | | | various educational backgrounds. Amid US community |
| it is very important to realistically overview of what | | | | college students, 43% are 21 years old or younger, |
| the credentials are as well as what those colleges | | | | 42% - 22-39 and 16% - 40 or older. In fact, your |
| require. You need to match your grades and special | | | | age must not be an unfavourable factor in applying |
| capabilities with the college's standards you wish to | | | | to school. |