Appropriate College Application Process

Seniors have a tendency of taking their last year of high school for granted. They do not realize that the relaxed classes and fun filled weekends with their best friends will all soon come to a devastating end. They have applied for college, bought miniature refrigerators, and sent in their housing applications, but none of them have really thought about college in the way that they should. When asked about college most high school seniors image the huge parties, attractive people, and freedom; however, college is much more than that and, in a way, much less. College and high school are completely different when it comes to a student’s actual lifestyle, but they have many of the same traits that most high school seniors do not see coming.

Some students are stressful in their senior year, because they want to go some good college and they need higher GPA and they need more AP classes. They want to achieving more thing and a better life.

Many people think college is a carefree place, full of fun and games for students. In reality ,the majority of students are bogged down in school work rushing to meet their deadlines for homework assignments projects,and even cramming study time for exams and quizzes. On top of that , college can be pretty costly. Therefore, this is normally a highly stressful period for most people in their lives. In the essay “College Pressures”, the author William Zinsser mentions how students go through so much stress and pressure from different aspects of college. He discusses the pressures that college students faced in the late 1970’s that are still happening now in today's society . Zinsser focuses on four main pressures that students face as they enter the college realm, which includes economic, parental, peer, and self-induced pressures. It's not only the pressure but In the essay “College Is a Waste of Time and Money” by Caroline Bird , the author attempts to persuade her readers that colleges are overflowing with students who don't belong there and that college education is a useless endeavor that is often forced on students. Between the money it costs, the time it takes,and all the pressures from the different aspects of college it can be pretty overwhelming to think about. The question is how could we reduces the struggle and tension that college brings upon students.

Although the stress of college students is largely present, it is just another part of college. The real epidemic here besides added pressure on female students is how students as a whole can reduce the amount of stress that is put on them by personal practices. The hardships that students are going through now will be prevalent in the future when they become very successful from all the aspects they were challenged

High School Struggles High school can be very stressful, especially junior year. It is very evident that in the book “Overachievers: the Secret Lives of Driven Kids” by Alexandra Robbins, the students are very driven to be successful and often find themselves stressing out. Junior year is often known as the most important year of high school because students start worrying about ACT/SAT scores and they finally start looking at colleges. “But he had been told that junior year was the most stressful in high school. This was the year he had to start thinking about colleges.”

The transition from high school to college is a notoriously daunting experience for students entering, arguably, the most important years in their lives. Everything that a student has come to know about academics, for the most part, are to be radically challenged. Many different factors go into the change, and any particular one can be enough to overwhelm any given student into becoming an emotional wreck. Whether it be living on one's own for the first time, drastic schedule changes, or becoming socially involved, these responsibilities are just three examples, among the seeming hundreds. However, a perfect balance between these responsibilities is a major key in not allowing the stressors to take one captive.

As senior year approaches or comes to an end, students start to decide what they want to do with their lives after high school. They begin applying for scholarships as well as saving up to cover all of their expenses. Tuition is expensive which means a lot of people cannot afford it without being in debt once they are done. It is important to prepare for college way before it’s time to attend and be well informed of costs one may have. Through the numerous stressful moments, students must consider all factors to a decision as well as maintain a social life because in the end, that will be one of the few things that will make college tolerable.

The process of applying to colleges has been a whole new ball game for me, a game I was not yet ready to play, a game that has sent my stress level through the roof. This experience has been much different from any other one I have met, this experience has stressed me out to the max. It hit me that this process determines where I start the next chapter of my life. It's nothing compared to going from your Freshman to Sophomore year of high school. This is a big change. Recently, I let all of my emotions out to my mom, how stressed I had grown over this, she told me how surprised she was considering she knew my personality and didn't expect this to upset me. However, she said something that has repeated itself in my head over and over. She told me that “applying to college was only the beginning, and all the stress that [I am] feeling is only preparing me for the harder times ahead. This is nothing compared to what [I’m] going to face in the future.” She was right, I should not stressing over whether I get into schools because if I think this is difficult, who knows what I'm going to do in the future when something major happens.

Like many of the questionnaires utilized for research in the articles used for this literature review, it was anonymous, and administered and collected during class. This form of data collection provided high turn in rates allowing researchers to have a wide study scale. According to Hicks, T., & Heastie, S., contrasting levels of stress and coping mechanisms were present in these students. It was noted that traditional college students experience more psychological stress than their nontraditional student counterparts. In addition, during the first year of college, the amount of stress experienced by students is the highest in comparison to stress in the remainder of the years. These results are especially important because it stresses the need for a strong health and wellness center within colleges and universities.

There are many different colleges to apply for a good education. You can put in applications at junior colleges, private colleges, trade schools, and universities. Applying for college is not as easy as I thought it would be. I believe the more you know about what to expect when you get to college, the better prepared you will be to deal with it, whatever it may be. The process is very stressful, therefore you must begin to prepare yourself to get good grades, make as high as you can on your ACT or SAT, and apply for college early.

The new year has arrived and seniors have started their final year of high school. This means applying for college, considering scholarships, and planning for the future has begun. These three things alone have caused stress to many seniors.

With an increased demand for skilled labors, many students nowadays find themselves needing to complete some form of higher education at college to ensure their success in the workplace and their future career goals. Although freshmen students often enter college with high expectations and ambitions, many eventually drop out of college. Why does that happen? In an ever-changing and more competitive environment, the demanding expectations on college students now soar at unprecedented heights, creating stressful and unpleasant experiences for many of them as they try to keep up with all the burdens inflicted upon them. In their writings, Dr. Christine B. Whelan, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alan Schwartz, and Nisha Ramachandran explore and illustrate some of the stress-creating challenges that freshmen struggle with today. Even though many factors contribute to the huge list of problems for first-year students, many of the problems that create stress for college freshmen fall under the categories of academic factors, (what adverb to add) teachers, and personal-life conflicts.

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Thesis: The unfamiliar transition into college life makes freshmen second guess their academic abilities, increase their stress and anxiety, and lead them towards depression. Freshmen face innumerable variables that play role in the human psych. Conflicting and battling with stress, anxiety, self-worth and the ultimatum of depression due to the ever changing and unpredictable new world. This paper was written to convey a small portion of these factors and the signs that contribute to them.

College students are a unique population of people who have a variety of different stressors than people who do not attend college (Holinka, 2015). Post-secondary education is a stressful time for both traditional and nontraditional students (Yarbrough & Schaffer, 1990). Regardless of student status whether it may be traditional, nontraditional, freshman- senior, all students experience stress at one time or another. Trenz, Ecklund-Flores, and Rapoza (2015), illustrate those traditional and nontraditional students both face life stress, anxiety, and depression but manage stress, anxiety-provoking events, and negative situations quite differently. Navigating through a new chapter in life increases the amount of stress on an individual. Interestingly, research shows that traditional and nontraditional student sample score similarly when tested on their emotional satisfaction with their support system—suggesting that differences in support are unlikely to explain differences in stress levels between these two groups (Carney-Crompton & Tan, 2002).