Essay about Architecture and College Choices

To many high school students, college seems like a far away land, a mysterious place where everyone wants to be yet not many know how to get there. As children, our parents tell us how much time we have to think about college, and that it is too far down the line to think about. The truth is it is never too early to think about your future. I, like many people, put little thought into my future career and now am lost in an unfortunate mix of indecision and anxiety. Not knowing where you want to be in the future is a hard burden to bear. Many of us tend to find out that we only know what we do not want, not what we actually do want. Do we want to be poor? Absolutely not. Do we want a boring job? Of course we don’t. We all want our

I did some research and according to NCAA.org the average scholarship is typically less than $50,000 over the course of four years.

They also give people an offer to financial aid if needed for their college funds. This collage has all of the classes for my Computer Software Engineer Job. They give all freshman various scholarship’s so that they don’t have to pay as much as they would. The dorms can cost 1,100-1,487 depending on what want live in. The books that I need for my class can cost from 20-200$ depending on the teacher and class subject. (Northridge)

NDSU’s tuition is around $15,000 per year which includes housing and food. UMC’s tuition is $20,000 per year which also includes housing and food. It is only a $5,000 difference and U of M schools are usually much more expensive, but they also have more scholarships they will give out or accept compared to other colleges.

The application fee is just a start of $75 along with getting books for each class that can range from $700 - $1,200 depending on if you’re accepted. Meanwhile, tuition and fees add up to over $9,830. The cost of attendance for in-state students is about $26,346. Lastly on campus living can add up to around $11,456 on average plus meals and parking, $4,310.

You can be awarded athletic scholarships as well as merit scholarships. You can be rewarded talent-based scholarships. You can get these scholarships by being good in athletics, art, dance, theatre, or music. For first year graduates they have special academic scholarships. There is the Dean’s that gives you $10,000, Provost’s that gives you $13,000, President’s that gives you $15,000, and the most special and competitive scholarship is the Monroe scholarship it pays your whole tuition.

We are awarding you a $9,000 Academic Achievement Scholarship that is renewable each year (totaling $36,000 over a 4-year period). It is based upon your highest SAT/ACT scores and your cumulative GPA.

The top ten majors taken at WWU are, Bachelor’s: 21%Health Professions, 13%Business/Marketing, 13%Engineering, 6%Biology, 6%Education, 6%Foreign Languages and Literature, 5%Public Administration and Social Services, 5%Visual and Performing Arts, Associate: 50%Business/Marketing, 33%Visual and Performing Arts. The minimum requirements for attending WWU are: Need to have completed an SAT or ACT exam, Must have scored at least Above 450 in the separate areas of the SAT and at least a 21 on the compiled ACT exam, must have a 3.00+ GPA, and must have taken 4 yrs. Of English, 2 yrs. of History, 3 yrs. of Math, 2 yrs. of Science, and 2 yrs. of Science lab.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Is one of the many questions that are asked by teachers and adults. Through the research and development of this paper, I feel that I am finally prepared to answer that question. College has always been in my plans but which college? Well, I have it narrowed down to three excellent and well -known colleges. Ohio University of Athens, The Ohio State University of Columbus and Miami University are the colleges that I feel would foremost prepare me to become an athletic trainer.

My interest in interior design commenced in middle school during a project on various careers. Since then, it has become an ever-developing passion. Interior design has manifested itself into my daily thoughts. I constantly look at my surroundings, wondering what I could do to change the room into a more practical space. This fuels my thirst for further knowledge. The only way to gain this knowledge is to get a degree and learn through practical application. My educational and professional career objectives are to obtain a bachelor of fine arts in interior design and to succeed as a commercial interior designer.

One October day during my junior year of high school, I came home to see my parents anxiously waiting for me behind the kitchen counter. They informed me that my dad had lost his job. My initial worries, although selfish, surrounded what this change would mean for my college education. Without an income, the burden of college would fall solely on my shoulders. Thankfully, seven months later, my dad accepted an offer in a competitive position at a company on the other side of the state. As soon as he accepted this position, he guaranteed a move in the near future.

My name is NAME. I am Age and I live in WHERE YOU LIVE in fact I have lived here all my life. I am currently attending SCHOOL NAME, which has helped prepare me for my future at a college or university level.

Everyone has or should have an ideal; something which he can look forward to, of which he may dream, and for which he may strive. In our colleges we come across many defects or limitations. We often discuss these among ourselves. And in course of these discussions, and as a result of them, we come to cherish a vague notion of what would be an ideal college, at last, what we would regard as an ideal. Here of course I speak mostly for myself.

For many, after graduating high school the next big step is college. I never asked myself why or if I even wanted to. Yet, since I was not yet ready to join the work force, and didn’t want to disappoint my parents, I simply followed the path that I was supposed to take. For a while I had no direction, but through the loss of my high school English teacher and my dream of making my family proud, I discovered that college was the place I wanted and needed to be.

Recently, Yale University announced that it would be removing former Vice President John C. Calhoun name from one of their residential colleges. While we know now that slavery was immoral and ultimately abolished, Calhoun, an 1804 Yale graduate was a committed slavery supporter. The university will remained the said residential college after Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper who was a pioneering computer scientist.