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Which Colleges or Graduate Schools Should You Apply To?

Friday, October 19, 2012 13:21
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This time of year, many people are choosing the colleges and graduate schools to apply to.

You’ll likely create a wiser list if you ask an admissions person the questions among these that are relevant to your situation:

  • 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?


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