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[CollegeAdvisorBTHS]

I urge you all to begin taking some steps in the college research process during the weeks ahead. One suggested way to do this...

1) READ the College Handbook (PDF file is attached).
2) CONSIDER the possible majors in which you might be interested.
3) REGISTER a user account on CollegeBoard.com so you can begin to use its research functions to investigate schools that offer your majors AND the admissions statistics for those schools (you will also have an easier time registering for SAT exams and eventually releasing your scores).
4) REVIEW your own cumulative average to date (inclusive of five terms of high school) along with your PSAT results and COMPARE your achievement to the admissions data for schools that offer the majors in which you are interested.

You will find it helpful to check the web and print resources listed on pages 21 and 22 of the Handbook for additional information to help inform you about specific colleges, statistics, and the overall college process.

You will find it helpful to review the FIVE separate web pages of MANY articles and links on BTHS.edu; click (or copy and paste) this link
http://www.bths.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?u...&rn=5617101
to get to the first page and then go to each additional page by using the menu at right.

You may find it helpful to develop a spreadsheet similar to the one on page 29 of the Handbook to help organize your information for those colleges in which you are interested.

Other factors like school location, size, composition, class size, cost, etc... will eventually become more important, but starting the above NOW is a productive way to investigate your options and to make well-informed choices.

Edited by CollegeAdvisorBTHS, 03 May 2010 - 05:48 PM.