Selective School

The selective test to go to a selective school in the liverpool area in New south wales?

you have 2 do sum selective studying!

2006-08-16 03:44:54 by thomas_mikhail

Polly Toynbee talks about the public vs private sector schools, how we must drag all the good schools (and pupils) down to the worst of the public ...

I am still in high school and I want to raise my chances of getting into a highly selective school. How can I do this?

Georgetown is my first choice school.

As you already know, admission to the elite schools is EXTREMELY competitive - good grades and high SAT scores alone will not guarantee you admission to an elite school. Nor will complimentary recommendation letters from your coach, your guidance counselor, your principal or your religious leader - or membership in a handful of clubs. If that's your admissions profile, then your admissions profile is EXACTLY the same as about 14 or 15 thousand more applicants to Georgetown. . Only 3300 of those applicants will be accepted.

If you want to improve your odds of admission to an elite school, you MUST find some way to distinguish yourself from the other great students at all of the other high schools in the United States (don't forget, the elite schools get international applicants, too!).

Found a club. Find an advisor, get the principal to approve it, drum up interest and put together an energetic, involved, first year membership. Throw yourself into a community service project - don't just sign up as a volunteer at your local nursing home - those are 'jobs' that someone else has done all the work to put together. Create your own project - tutor kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods, collect clean white socks for the homeless in your community, put together a program that brings the seniors in your city together with high school students in the band or the drama club, and put on a performance that showcases the two groups working together. Research and write a great speech about "going green" and find local organizations that will let you present it, talk to religious or business organizations about the crisis in Darfur, and tell them how they can get involved.

Do something unique!

People don't understand the college admissions process - what it's really about is putting together a marketing or advertising campaign that's about you! No cereal manufacturer would run ads saying "We're another cereal, so try us.", and a student who wants admission to a very competitive school should not send an application that says "I'm another bright student, so accept me."

2008-06-16 09:27:12 by Lo

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If you do well enough academically to be able to get into a selective college, and you know you're going to go to a graduate school anyways, why does it matter where you go for undergrad? If you do very well at an average college and you do well on the GRE or whatever, won't you be able to get into excellent graduate schools?
I did well on my SATs and ACTs; I think I can get into a good school. I just don't understand what the big deal is about going to a top school. What advantages does it give you in life once you graduate?
I'm only a high school junior, so I'm not looking at graduate schools yet, but people always say that I should go to Harvard/Princeton/Yale but when I ask them what makes them great schools they don't really give me an adequate answer.

I am a recent college graduate (BBA Accounting) and I can tell you that I had the change to go to an Ivy League school or just a plain public school.

I made an excellent choice when I went with the public school because it saved me a TON of money. Educational debt is not a bad debt to have, but where do you draw the line? When Harvard was asking $50,000 a year for an education (50 X 4 = $200,000), and the school I went to was a total of $50,000 including living expenses, books, etc. I think I got a MUCH better value.

I have taken the GMAT and done really well....as soon as I get some work experience under my belt, I plan on attending graduate school for business. It is possible I may shoot for an Ivy League school or, at a minimum, a private school for my Master's. The resources those schools offer for you will help you get a long ways after graduation.

Bottom line is you need to get the credential of a bachelor's degree and not spent a TON of money on it since you are going to continue your education anyways.

I know this is a lot of information but hope it helps! :)

EDIT: Here is some additional information in the link provided below. It helped me out a lot!

2007-05-26 20:20:56 by Scott

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Any thoughts on the disadvantages of going to a academically selective school would be great.

Well, for some students it can shake their confidence to go from a school where they're always at the top of their class to a more selective one where they're just "average" and no longer stand out. There's also the problem that their GPA may go down.

That being said, as long as they're academically and emotionally (and financially if it's a more expensive private school) prepared for it, I would say the advantages outweigh the disadvantages to be in an environment that will challenge them more.

2009-07-24 22:20:18 by Needing Answers

Is there a big difference in getting a job between a well known public university, rather than a selective school?

Is it over exaggerated on how much more money you make by a better school.

Comparing University of Massachusetts to Harvard or MIT, even Boston College, is the value of the degree from maybe BC that much better than from UMass?

Top colleges can take the top applicants and expect a lot more from them than most schools. They can expect them to do more homework, work at a higher level, and pick up concepts faster, which lets them cover more material in the same amount of time. But you can get that at other schools too, by joining honors programs. Top schools will push you into opportunities you'll have to seek out at other schools, like advanced classes, research with professors, and study abroad programs. Here's an article about which school's graduates make the most. It's not the one you'd think

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-educati on/article/107374/do-elite-colleges-prod uce-the-best-paid-graduates.html?mod=edu -collegeprep

2010-03-03 20:17:43 by biddies