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Graduation Speech : Keystone High School

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It is extremely hard to choose what you want to do for the rest of your life at only age 17, but Keystone High School tries to make it easier for their students. Keystone High School requires you to have this career research done for you to be able to graduate. There are a lot of steps involved in getting your final essay done. Like gathering information throughout different websites, interviewing a person in that field, and writing a huge essay about what we have decided on our lives. During our phase one of the career research project, we had to look for what we do in our jobs. Phase two we had to go out into the real world and interview or job shadow someone already in that field, so that makes us be able to make a better decision. But …show more content…

I found 3 great programs, one only being 4 hours away in Williamsport. The colleges I looked at are Pennsylvania College of Technology, Purdue University, and Philadelphia University. So I will break down each college for my decision. To start off, the Pennsylvania College of Technology costs around 15,810 dollars for just tuition per year. But with a meal plan, books, and supplies included it will cost around 21,100 dollars without a place to live. Pennsylvania College of Technology also provides around 200 different scholarships as long as you don’t break any rules and you stay above a 2.5 GPA. Also they try as hard as they can to make College affordable for us so they provide lists of other scholarships not provided by the school. There job placement is very high and they help you find employment after school as well as during so you can gain on the job experience. Above all that the campus is located about 4 hours away from Knox, Pa so it 's not to far to come back and visit. ("Admissions & Aid.") The next college I looked at was Purdue University, it is located in Indiana so it is my less likely choice. Tuition for a out-of-state student would be around 28,800 dollars per year. That is a whole 18,800 dollars more than a in-state-resident. With books, supplies, travel, and misc. the grand total will be around 32,000 dollars without boarding. Purdue University doesn’t have very many of their own scholarships, they provide around one hundred scholarships to people

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