Which Colleges or Graduate Schools Should You Apply To?

• For a student with my grades and test scores, what’s the average freshman-to-senior growth in reading  writing, etc? (If you’re told that the institution doesn’t collect that data, it suggests they don’t care enough about student growth to do so.)

• What percentage of freshmen with my grades, test scores, and planned major, graduate within four years? Five years?  If it’s a graduate program, what is the average, not the expected, time it takes to complete the degree?

• My family makes $X a year and has, not counting their home, has $X in assets. My grades in school were X and my SAT/GRE etc are Y.  Approximately, how much am I likely to end up paying in cash and how much loan will I be expected to take? And what will my package look like in years 2-4? Year 5 and beyond?

• In your institution’s most recent accreditation review, did it receive a full ten-year term of accreditation? What did the accreditation’s visiting team report cite as your institution’s greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses? 

• Would you email me a copy of the results of the most recent student or alumni satisfaction survey?

• What percentage of graduates in my planned major are professionally employed within a year of graduation?

2012-10-19 13:03:56

Source: http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2012/10/which-colleges-or-graduate-schools.html